“The Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) envisions a world where the power, hope and healing of recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction is thoroughly under-stood and embraced.”

 

Here’s our mission – Along with organizing the recovery community (people in recovery, family members, friends and allies) to 1) put a face on recovery and 2) provide recovery support services, we also promote recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction through advocacy, education and service. CCAR strives to end discrimination surrounding addiction and recovery, open new doors and remove barriers to recovery, maintain and sustain recovery regardless of the pathway, all the while ensuring that all people in recovery, and people seeking recovery, are treated with dignity and respect.

 

Our Values – CCAR meets people where they are. We don’t push any one form of recovery on anyone. Over the years CCAR has developed some foundational principles on which we base our work. They are: You are in recovery if you say you are; There are many pathways to recovery; Focus on the recovery potential, not the pathology; Err on the side of the recoveree; Err on the side of being generous. Many times people are left to navigate the system on their own. By the time they get to us, they are frustrated, crying, and discouraged. We talk with them. We meet them where they are. We offer the hope of a new way of living. We help them.