Looking for a recovery community center near you?
PRCC works with a network of recovery community centers throughout Maine. For areas without a recovery community center, we can provide coaching and assistance to help start one.
Click here to download a printable statewide map: PRCC MAP.pdf
What is a recovery community center?
Recovery community centers (organizations) provide peer recovery support services, organize recovery-focused advocacy activities, and carry out recovery-focused community education and outreach programs. They are independent, non-profit organizations led and governed by people in recovery. The broadly defined recovery community – people in long-term recovery, their families, friends and allies, including recovery-focused addiction and recovery professionals – includes organizations whose members reflect religious, spiritual and secular pathways of recovery. The sole mission of a recovery community center (organization) is to mobilize resources within and outside of the recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addictions. Public education, policy advocacy and peer-based recovery support services are the strategies through which this mission is achieved.
The Recovery Community Organizations: Toward a Working Definition and Description (Valentine, White, & Taylor, 07) Adapted.
Recovery Community Centers in Maine
Recovery community centers (RCCs) across Maine play a vital role in meeting the unique needs of the individuals and families they serve. Over the past several years, Maine has expanded its network of recovery community centers, and as of December 2025, there are 20 centers providing support statewide.
These centers offer a range of services and programming—including peer support, recovery coaching, education, advocacy, and individualized resources—to help community members heal, grow, and strengthen their recovery at every stage of their journey.
How to start a center
PRCC serves as Maine’s Recovery Hub, providing guidance, technical support, and training for new and developing recovery community centers in Maine.
If you have questions or are seeking assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out to Catherine Rawson, Program Manager for the Maine Recovery Hub at catherine@portlandrecovery.org.
PRCC’s vision is that every person affected by addiction in Maine will have direct access to a local recovery community center. Together we are living proof that recovery is possible.