National Recovery Support Group for Young LGBT Launches Weekly Zoom Meetings
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Young People in Recovery (YPR) is proud to announce the launch of weekly Rainbow Recovery meetings that are available nationwide via Zoom to support LGBTQ+ youth and young adults struggling with drugs and alcohol.
The meetings are every Thursday at 6:30pm MT and welcome all pathways to recovery such as medication-assisted, harm reduction, 12-Step, faith-based, SMART recovery, and others.
The meetings offer an opportunity to focus on the hope found in recovery and the unique lived experience of LGBTQ+ people who are in recovery, or who are seeking recovery, from substance use. YPR is national, peer-led organization that provides recovery support services focusing on youth and young adults in recovery from substance use disorder.
YPR aims to improve access to resources such as housing, education and employment that sustain long-term recovery. By creating a national network of individuals in recovery, YPR empowers people to get involved in their communities by providing them with the tools and support to take charge of their futures.
Rainbow Recovery was founded in 2019 by YPR staff members from the LGBTQ+ community to forge connection in the virtual sphere during the Covid pandemic and to let queer youth in recovery know that there was a safe space available to them.
While 9 percent of the general population struggles with substances, as much as 30 percent of the LGBTQ+ community is affected. Discrimination, stigmatization, trauma, hate speech, hate crimes, public humiliation, and other external and internal homophobia are among the many reasons why substance use disorder is so pervasive. And yet many LGBTQ+ people are unwelcome or rejected even when they seek treatment for substance use or recovery support services.
Rainbow Recovery was designed to fill this gap and create a more welcoming and culturally sensitive space for LGBTQ+ people to find help.
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YPR was founded in 2010 by a group of young people in recovery (under age 30) who wanted to help others. Today, YPR has 62 chapters in 23 states that provide in-person and virtual recovery support for young people and their allies. YPR envisions a world where all young people have the resources they need to thrive in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol. YPR’s mission is to provide the life skills and peer supports to help people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential.
For additional information on Young People in Recovery, please visit www.youngpeopleinrecovery.org or contact ann.herbst@youngpeopleinrecovery.org
