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Engage Recovery equips communities to confront substance use stigma and strengthen recovery ecosystems. Through community think tanks, strategic collaborations, and the Healing For Us™ framework, we help leaders translate lived experience into systems change.
The Healing For Us™ Framework
The Healing For Us™ Framework is a community-centered approach to strengthening recovery ecosystems and advancing collective well-being.
Rooted in public health, community organizing, and lived experience leadership, the framework challenges traditional models that focus solely on the individual. Instead, it recognizes that healing emerges from the strength of the community and must be built with, not for, the people it serves.
Healing For Us™ centers those most often overlooked and positions the community as the primary site of healing. It explores how individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, and systems interact to shape the conditions where healing either becomes possible or remains out of reach.
By prioritizing those pushed to the margins and strengthening collaboration across sectors, the framework helps communities move beyond fragmented services toward more connected and responsive systems of care.
Guided by the Three C’s of the Healing Pact: the Continuum of Care, Collaboration, and Courage, the framework invites communities to examine how relationships, leadership, and systems of power influence health, recovery, and collective well-being.
Through this lens, Healing For Us™ helps communities cultivate the conditions where healing can take root, grow, and sustain across generations.
The Healing For Us™ Socioecological Model is the foundation on which healing becomes possible.