Our Mission

Recovery Community Development seeks to equip those in need with the economic and life skills necessary to become more productive members of the communities of Bridgeport and Norwalk, Connecticut. Recovery CD will accomplish this mandate by offering supportive housing, social services, and jobs training programs.

Building Supportive Recovery Communities

Recovery CD offers a collaborative solution to sober living:

  • It is philosophy orientated to the equal dignity of all persons and to the principle of love thy neighbor
  • It has a long term focus
  • The core of its work is performed by non-specialists
  • It establishes clear limits and expectations
  • It is warm and nurturing
  • It encourages spiritual and religious development
  • It reflects and transmits a shared understanding of what it means to be a good person

Supportive Recovery Housing
Raising Standards

RCD’s Standards:

  • Clean, Dignified Homes and Property
  • 24 Hour Supervision by Resident Advisor
  • Curfew
  • Agreed Upon Standards and Rules
  • Drug and Alcohol Testing and Monitoring
  • Recovery Meetings (12 Step, Refuge, Church, CCAR)
  • Common Office and Recreational Space
  • Access to Outpatient and Spiritual Counseling and Sober Coaching