R.I. Cares About Recovery
RICARES is a grassroots effort focused on creating a socially just community for all Rhode Islanders impacted by substance use disorder. We approach stigma like a crossroads, with a lens to advocate for change.
Learn MoreProgram Areas
Recovery Housing
RICARES has three core program areas: Advocacy, Education, and Recovery Housing Certification. While the core of our mission is advocacy and education, we are highlighting the recovery housing certification program here for recovery housing Owners/Operators.
Certification Application
This link will take you straight to the RHC Application process.
Application ProcessFile a Grievance
This link will take you straight to the Grievance process and form.
Grievance ProcessCertified House List
This link will take you to the list of Certified Recovery Houses.
Certified House ListGet Involved
RICARES became the Rhode Island Recovery Community Organization (RCO) in 1998. Our seed money came from a federal agency, the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA. SAMHSA drove the RCO initiative throughout New England. 13 years later RICARES received our 501 c3 a ruling from the IRS.
As an RCO, it is a guiding principle that our organizations are made up of people in recovery, allies of recovery, and family and friends of people in recovery. At RICARES, we believe we are all one community.
Over the last 19 years, many partners, agencies, and talented leaders have come together to support and sustain us. We all work to challenge the stigma that prevents communities from recovering. Learn how you can make a difference.
RICARES Report on Harm Reduction: Drug Policy
We are all aware of the present tension in our state between a movement toward drug policy liberalization, the resistance toward that movement, and the desire of some to move backwards.
We know that changes in national policies often begin at the local/state level.
We can continue to act. RICARES Report on Harm Reduction: Drug Policy is available to the public.