RECOVERY CAFE DC

Making Recovery Real in Southeast DC

Donald ConerlyDonald and Jacqueline Conerly founded Recovery Café DC (RCDC) in 2018. Based in Ward 8, RCDC's mission is to be a healing, transformative recovery community for all who have been traumatized by addiction, other mental health challenges, homelessness and incarceration. 

RCDC believes that regardless of past trauma,Jacqueline Conerly addictive behaviors or mistakes made, everyone deserves a chance to “get back up and try again”. 

RCDC creates a safe, drug- and alcohol-free space with programs that support recovery, build resiliency, and equip members with skills and experiences. At the Café, everyone is seen as a valued member, and is treated with respect, compassion, and forgiveness. Each members' unique gifts are recognized and all are encouraged to giving back to the community through voluntary activities. 

"The model for transformation at Recovery Cafe DC would be powerful no matter what. But with Black leaders with deep roots in Southeast, it becomes unstoppable.  This team's unwavering faith in their people can be felt in every recovery circle, at every meal, and with every step toward breaking ground at our new building on Good Hope Road, SE. The leaders know the recovery struggle because it has been their own. Their commitment to create authentic healing community with the people of this city is in their every breath."  Angie Thurston