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Healthy living, personalized recovery plans, and the caring support you need to get your life on track—that’s what you’ll find at Recovery Is Happening. We are dedicated to helping you reach your fullest potential and forever leave behind the damage and despair of addiction.

Recovery Is Happening (“RIH”) is one of Minnesota’s leading non-profit, full-service Recovery Community Organizations. Founded in 2011, we connect individuals impacted by substance use disorder with personalized pathways to recovery.

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Healthy living, personalized recovery plans, and the caring support you need to get your life on track—that's what you'll find at Recovery Is Happening. We are dedicated to helping you reach your fullest potential and forever leave behind the damage and despair of addiction.
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Programs and Services

Peer Recovery Support

Peer Recovery Specialists help a person become ready and willing to enter recovery by helping the person explore their options for recovery. Peer Recovery Specialists ask questions, offer insight, and help service recipients as they become whole, resourceful, and capable of choosing what is best for them. Peer Recovery Specialists

Telephone Recovery Support

Recovery Is Happening has been providing Telephone Recovery Support (TRS) calls to individuals that are in or seeking recovery from substance use challenges since 2014. TRS is an innovative, peer-to-peer support service. Staff and trained volunteers that are in recovery themselves, make weekly calls to “check in” on their recovery.

Chemical Health Assessments

Recovery Is Happening provides confidential Chemical Health Assessments.  Time is of the essence for those suffering from substance use challenges and at Recovery Is Happening we utilize the window of opportunity by removing the barriers that keep people from seeking help. Reasons people get assessments often include: Concern about own

Strong Start Housing

In partnership with the local recovery housing organizations, our Strong Start Housing program provides rental assistance to people accessing Intensive Outpatient Treatment from Recovery Is Happening. This program is made available through grant funding from the Olmsted Medical Center, the Carl and Verna Schmidt Foundation, the United Way of Olmsted

Click below to read about some of our latest happenings:

KTTC reports “MAKING AN IMPACT: Nonprofit provides road to recovery from addiction”

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We are so grateful to KTTC for sharing some of the powerful work we’re doing at Recovery Is Happening! From KTTC: ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – In today’s world, many are bound by addiction. According to the state Department of Health, among adult Minnesotans, alcohol is the primary substance used at the …

2023 Rally for Recovery 5k

2023 Rally for Recovery 5k

More than 100 people gathered together on Saturday morning, September 9th, to celebrate recovery together with a 5k walk/run. We enjoyed fellowship and laughter, plus some tender tears (thank you, friends). This could not have happened without all of you! Please check out some photos from the festivities (thank you …

Every Child Matters! September 30th is Orange Shirt Day

Every Child Matters! September 30th is Orange Shirt Day

Orange Shirt Day, or National Day for Truth and Reconciliation or National Day of Remembrance, is observed yearly on September 30 in Canada and the United States. This year (2022), Recovery Is Happening’s Peer Recovery Support Specialist and Annishinaabe woman from Sagkeeng First Nation, the Eagle Clan, Maria Sontag, shared …

Leadership

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Jenna Christensen

executive director

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Cheryl Otto

Lead Peer Recovery Specialist