08/30/2022
We are sad to announce that the Recovery Community Center at 701 Route 50, Mays Landing will officially close on August 31st. All of the meetings and groups that met there have found new homes in the local area.
From humble beginnings in 2012, our Founder, Chris Macomber’s dream of a place where there was “hope all day” for people in recovery to come together and support each other, became a reality in 2014. With a group of individuals in recovery, volunteers and boards members our first location was opened. We immediately began having holiday BBQs, Dances, Comedy shows, Cafe’ nights, Open Mic Nights and renting space to both NA and AA groups to meet because we believe socialization and connection are the touchstones of long term recovery. The community came together and hope was felt throughout the area.
As the first non-profit, peer driven, completely volunteer run recovery community center in the State of New Jersey, Hope All Day became a hub for the recovery community and other grassroots organizations to flourish and grow. Although it was not our original model to become a treatment referral center, the need for addiction treatment was so great and the availability of beds so hard to find, we, through our amazing volunteers, started to help make the process easier and became one of the “go to” places to find help. Since that time many other grassroots organizations have formed and assist individuals daily to find the help they so desperately need. It is so much easier to find a bed in a treatment facility now than it was then thanks to their hard work! There are many RCCs across the State that have used the Hope All Day model to open in their County and serve their local recovery community. We are beyond grateful for the progress that New Jersey has made in providing addiction resources, but we have so far to go and the need is still great. Too many people are still dying and suffering and there is still work to be done. These organizations will continue to serve! Our work will live on through them and the many individuals that have come through our doors over the years!
We want to thank EVERYONE, and there are too many to list, who have helped us, volunteered, supported our mission, donated, attended events, flipped a burger, made a taco or cheesesteak, did the dishes, mopped the floors or cleaned a bathroom! We particularly want to thank the Atlantic County Division of Substance Abuse Services especially Robert Widitz for believing in us and working with us to provide necessary peer support services to the County over the last 8 years.
We will continue to provide peer support services through the end of the year which include 1-1 support, treatment referrals, recovery housing funding assistance (as available) to Atlantic County residents. If you are in need of peer support services please email info@hopeallday.org or s.soltis@hopeallday.org or send a message on here and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Although it is bittersweet to close our doors, we are so grateful to have had the opportunity to serve the recovery community in Atlantic County and beyond these last 10 years and to know that many lives were saved and hope became an everyday possibility for anyone who has passed through our doors!
Chris Macomber and Sherry Soltis
Don’t forget there is always Hope! 💙🕊
