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At Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness, we understand both the devastation and the courage it takes to recover. And we know that we can’t do it alone. Recovery doesn’t happen in isolation; it happens in community.

Thank you for being part of this caring community—the one that offers support, compassion, and hope without judgment or stigma. Because of you, Sunrise was able to provide authentic peer support, resource connection, and education through our team of more than 50 incredible staff members who use their lived experience in recovery from substance use and mental health challenges to meet peers exactly where they are. 

Together, we are rebuilding lives.

With your support, some of our 2025 highlights include:

• Serving as a distribution hub during Helene Recovery and distributing thousands of basic needs items including food/water, clothing, cleaning products, and hygiene items to our community of peers who were devastated by the storm.
• Providing 207 support groups and community activities with more than 6,000 peers.
• Opening our Tohi Edasdi Recovery Community Center on the Qualla Boundary serving members of the EBCI tribe and peers in surrounding areas, providing culturally rooted activities with a recovery focus.
• Providing 3,542 overdose-reversal kits which saved a reported 662 lives!

But nothing reflects the impact we have better than the words of our peers. Sean, aka “Struggle” was a regular at our Drop-In Recovery Center.

“Sunrise was my guiding light to what recovery could look like. I would come into the Drop In Center and not say a word to anyone. But ya’ll came up to me. Asked me how I was doing. Did I need a cup of coffee or water? You can’t know what that did for me. It changed my life.”

With help from our staff, Struggle went into treatment and is substance-free, he is living in his own apartment for the first time in a decade, he has re-connected with his family and is enrolled in classes to become a Certified Peer Support Specialist.