2025 End-of-Year Appeal
Recovery takes root when people with lived experience are empowered to lead. Through your generosity, OCAAR mobilizes advocates, informs policy, and builds a more equitable Ohio for those impacted by addiction. This end-of-year Seeds of Recovery Appeal is your chance to grow that impact—one seed, one voice, one act of compassion at a time.
Your gift plants healing.
YOUR DONATION SUPPORTS:
Recovery Community Organizations
We support and help create peer-led recovery community organizations statewide. These groups have a profound impact on recovery by providing ongoing peer support, a community of shared experience and goals, and a stable 3rd Space for friendship and encouragement.
Collegiate Recovery Network
We organize and build recovery support in campus environments so college students can thrive in a challenging environment.
Peer Support
We facilitate certified peer support, helping people with lived experience become peer supporters & connect with services.
Educational Outreach / Training
We deliver trainings & seminars for peer supporters, advocates, and non-profit groups.
Advocacy & Policy
Built on in-person listening sessions across Ohio, we root our advocacy efforts in the voices of people with lived experience. We engage people in caucus groups focused on policy reform (e.g. housing, decriminalization of addiction, peer workforce development). And we speak directly to lawmakers on legislation that impact the recovery community.
Leadership Development
OCAAR has developed an intensive and innovative curriculum, called the Leadership Institute, and is training persons with lived experience to be b. We’re building pathways to leadership and long-term leadership development. We go a step further and work to place people with lived experience on for-profit and non-profit governing boards.
GIVE TODAY AND PLANT HEALING
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Support lifesaving recovery support services that continue after treatment ends.
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Fund training, leadership development, and advocacy efforts that change laws and systems, not just individual lives.
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Give voice to lived-experience in policy reform.
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Scale our impact through collaboration, sponsorship, policy influence, and resource sharing.
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Educate nonprofits, policy-makers, communities about stigma, about SUD as a public health issue
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Increase access to recovery resources in more communities, and ensure ongoing support is available after treatment