The Center for Addiction Recovery Education & Success (CARES) is a peer to peer, volunteer based recovery oriented sanctuary located in Rockaway, NJ. We exist to put a face on recovery, build recovery capital and serve as a physical location where the local recovery community can join together. CARES honors all pathways to recovery.

The Center for Addiction Recovery, Education & Success works to engage and organize the recovery community by helping individuals find, maintain, and enhance their recovery experience through peer support, educational and volunteer opportunities and sober recreation, as well as working to reduce stigma associated with substance abuse through advocacy, education and service.

In developing our mission, CARES identified four guiding principles:

• People move from dependency to inter-dependency;
• Reliance on the community is central to recovery;
• Competence and wisdom reside in all people with lived experience of addiction and recovery; and
• Leadership emerges naturally within the community, and positive leadership should be fostered and supported.