People need more—more options, more personalized support, and more connections—for health and happiness in recovery—that is exactly what we strive to offer.

You’re the expert in your life and your recovery. We’re just here to help.

Our mission is to provide a welcoming, compassionate and accessible recovery support environment for individuals and families recovering from alcoholism, drug addiction and other addictive disorders.

By owning and operating a beautiful, historic community center that hosts the largest and most diverse offering of mutual-aid support meetings and recovery services in Oregon, the Alano Club of Portland is able to bring healing, hope and solutions to more than 10,000 visitors each month. There’s no other recovery support center of its kind in the area, where recovering individuals can go—free of charge—to receive the level of life-long support they need in their journey to addiction recovery. Ours is a safe, loving and inviting home for more than 100 weekly recovery support meetings, recovery seminars and workshops, yoga and meditation classes, and sobriety-based social events.

Programs & Services:

Meetings

Peer Connect: Alano PeerConnect Recovery Support Services help people realize their strengths and areas for opportunity and connects them with peers for support. Together, we can be each other’s link to sustained recovery.

The Recovery Gym: The Recovery Gym (TRG) is the Pacific Northwest’s first fitness center dedicated to helping people on the path to recovery for substance use and mental health disorders, and the first of its kind—anywhere—to merge fitness, data and mentorship to do so.

Push Movement: To promote holistic, peer-based pathways to recovery - built from the culture of skateboarding - and open to individuals in all stages of change.

Project RED: Project red is an initiative from the alano club of portland dedicated to raising awareness around overdose prevention and increasing the availability and accessibility of overdose prevention supplies and trainings, with a focus on BARS, RESTAURANTS, STRIP CLUBS, ENTERTAINMENT VENUES, and community based organizations. We also work with artists, bands and promoters to coordinate harm reduction and overdose prevention activations at national tour stops.

Recovery Toolkit Series: This holistic, multi-disciplinary service model is built on evidence-based practices that enable people with substance use disorders to create individualized recovery toolkits according to their own needs. The Alano Club is the first organization of its kind in the United States to pioneer this comprehensive and innovative approach to recovery in a community-centered environment—all free of charge.

• Invitation to Change: Are you watching someone you love struggle with addictive behaviors? Are you wondering how to support your loved one in Recovery? There are tools available, with years of research behind them, that have been life-changing for others in your situation. Come join us to learn and practice skills such as effective communication and boundary setting, increase your understanding of the change process, and gain support in a compassionate environment. This approach increases the potential for change, connection, and helps clear a path towards recovery while taking care of yourself in the process.

• Recovery Yoga: In partnership with volunteer yoga instructors from the recovery community, our recovery yoga classes provide trauma-informed services and resiliency training in order to ensure all individuals have the tools to heal from the impacts of trauma, prevent re-traumatization, and realize their full potential.

• Mindfulness & Meditation: This group provides a safe space for those interested in deepening their meditation practice within a supportive recovery sangha (community).

• Plates for the People: A series of free, monthly cooking classes for people in or seeking recovery, taught by award winning chefs in recovery.

• Sounds of Recovery: Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.

Artists in Recovery: Free events via zoom, conversations with artists in recovery.

• The Break: The Break is a monthly virtual gathering of writers and artists lead by Kaveh Akbar, celebrating amongness, collaboration, and interdisciplinary creative experimentation. Though many of the activities and discussions orbit or are inflected by recovery themes (Akbar has been in active recovery for eight years), participants are not required to self-identify as being in recovery to participate.