MEDFORD, Ore. -- Back in 2017, Stephanie Mendenhall and her husband started a local nonprofit to help people who are struggling with addiction get off the streets and into treatments.
Reclaiming Lives serves as a resource center and a way to build lifelong connections.
“The last two years have been amazing. The number of people that we've seen that come in and are just looking for hope has been incredible, to be able to give back to our community in a way that I didn't really envision in the beginning, has really changed my life,” Mendenhall said.
Now Reclaiming Lives has opened up its "Recovery Café" which will allow the nonprofit to be able to meet with more people and have more groups.
"Recovery Café is a safe space for people that are trying to find their way from addiction into recovery,” Brandon Orr, the Recovery Café manager and the peer support coordinator for Reclaiming Lives said.
Recovery Cafe is based out of Seattle, and that original location has been in place for more than 15 years. The cafe is all about connecting people in their recovery process.
“We celebrate each other in any kind of successes that we have. And I think for, for an addict, you know, that that spent like me 19 years using and breaking the law and letting people down and hurting myself, for all of us to get, to come together and celebrate each other. And what we're doing today,” Staci Glass, a member of the Recovery Café said.
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