SOS Recovery Community Organization

Mission and Vision

The mission of SOS Recovery Community Organization is to reduce stigma and harm associated with substance use by providing safe space and peer-based supports for people in all stages of recovery. SOS envisions a world where recovery is widely embraced through low-barrier access to inclusive and respectful supports, and where all who seek recovery have access to the care and resources they need to achieve their self-defined goals.

What We Do

SOS Recovery Community Organization runs two recovery centers in Dover and Exeter, NH. As the largest peer-based recovery and harm reduction support service in the state, we serve over 1,500 participants annually and see more than 8,000 visits each year. We also provide digital and tele-recovery support for individuals involved in the criminal justice system across NH, including rural northern communities. We host weekly in-person and digital support groups, offering meetings seven days a week, multiple times a day.

In October 2023, we launched Fold'd Community Diner, a breakfast and lunch restaurant at 69 High St. in Somersworth, NH. This restaurant employs and provides workforce development for individuals in recovery and those coming out of incarceration. We also provide free meals to those who may need them, through our "Pay-it-forward" wall. 

Daily in our centers, we offer peer-assisted recovery supports, complex care coordination, wellness and recovery planning, and harm reduction supplies aiming to reduce the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C, and other diseases. We have an Memorandum of Understanding with Lamprey Health Care to offer a Dried Blood Spot Testing pilot program and connect participants directly to care if needed. We also connect individuals to treatment options, employment, housing, shelter, mental health services, primary care, and other medical needs. 

Families are another crucial part of SOS. We support a network of family meetings across NH, contracting with the NH Department of Health and Human Services. We provide weekly parenting classes and support groups and have trained facilitators to support family members locally and across the state.

Recently, we have been expanding our programming into the youth and adolescent space with our new role leading the Carroll County Juvenile Diversion Program. This is coupled with our new, first of it's kind parenting class curriculum using Dr. Ross Greene's internationally renowned, evidence based model, Collaborative Proactive Solutions (CPS).  Using CPS, we strip away the shame and behavior modification approaches and empower families and caregivers to build skills in problem solving collaboratively with their child.