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 Recovery Community Organization 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 three recovery centers in Dover, Rochester, 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 tele-recovery support for individuals involved in the criminal justice system across NH, including rural northern communities. We host the most active and comprehensive digital support programs, offering meetings seven days a week, multiple times a day.

In October 2023, we launched Fold'd, 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. Daily, we offer peer-assisted recovery support, crisis navigation, wellness and recovery planning, and harm reduction supplies also aiming to reduce the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C. We connect individuals to treatment options, employment, housing, shelter, mental health services, primary care, and other medical needs.

Families are a crucial part of SOS. We support a network of family meetings across NH contracting with the NH Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services (BDAS). We provide weekly parenting programs and have trained facilitators to support family members locally.

Dream With Us

Housing First and recovery housing remain one of the greatest barriers our participants face and we have a dream and a plan to overcome those barriers.  We also face increasing pressures from development for our daytime recovery community center programs and services.  Development results in the sale and development of our centers we currently lease combined with structural violence, stigma, and gentrification that discriminates against our participants. 

We know the next step is to own and control our properties and build recovery housing and launch Housing First programs through permanent supportive housing.  We envision providing both Housing First and recovery housing that doesn't discriminate against medications of any kind as we believe housing is a human right and should be provided in accordance with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.  The medications taken for opioid or substance use disorders as well as medications for mental health are the responsibilities of medical providers and not of recovery housing operators to discriminate against.  In order to overcome these barriers we will fulfill our dreams of SOS owning our centers and developing housing alternatives.  Housing that is subsidized based on income and not corrupted by profits or discriminatory practices.  This NH gives you can become part of those dreams by contributing to our journey to provide that.  Every dollar counts and your support is desperately needed as we have never faced the pressures we currently face today to improve sustainability.

Who We Are

Our Mission
The mission of SOS Recovery Community Organization is to reduce stigma and harm associated with substance use and by providing safe space and peer based supports for people in all stages of recovery.

Our Vision
SOS Recovery Community Organization envisions a world where recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs is possible and widely embraced through low-barrier access to inclusive and respectful support, and where all who seek long-term recovery have access to the care and resources they need to achieve their self-defined goals.