A nonprofit for recovery & healthier futures

Empowering People Together

We help individuals transitioning out of treatment find and pay for safe, supportive housing, connect them to substance-use and mental-health support, and equip communities of every background with the knowledge and tools to make healthy, informed choices.

Our Mission

Our mission is to empower individuals, inform communities, and act to support healthier futures.

Why we exist

Recovery shouldn't end at the treatment door

Treatment offers structure — but it doesn't provide income or housing. We help fill that critical gap so people can focus on recovery, build healthy routines, and take the next steps toward a brighter, self-sufficient future. No one should have to rebuild their life alone.

Empower

We give individuals the tools, resources, and support they need to take control of their recovery journey.

Inform

We deliver education and awareness that equips communities, youth, and individuals with the knowledge to make healthy, informed choices.

Act

We create practical solutions through scholarships, community programs, and advocacy that turn compassion into action.

Whole-person care

Substance use and mental health — we help with both

Substance use and mental-health conditions so often go hand in hand, and treating only one leaves people vulnerable. Our programs are built to support the whole person — because lasting recovery depends on both a stable life and a healthy mind.

Substance use disorders

We help people find their footing after treatment and stay in recovery:

  • Scholarships for safe, supportive sober-living housing
  • Help covering rent so a financial crisis doesn't derail progress
  • Free Naloxone (Narcan) training & overdose-prevention resources
  • Recovery tools — meeting check-ins, sobriety tracking, and peer connection

Mental health disorders

Recovery is more than staying sober — it's rebuilding a healthy mind and life:

  • Professional counseling led by a licensed clinician (LMFT)
  • Support for co-occurring conditions like anxiety, depression & trauma
  • Connection and community that ease the isolation behind relapse
  • Crisis support — a fast, simple way to reach help in a hard moment

Because these challenges are so often intertwined, we address them together — meeting people where they are and connecting them to the housing, clinical care, and community they need to move forward.

Our impact in 2026

Real help, real people, real results

8
people housed & helped to pay for housing so far in 2026
$16,000+
in donations received to date — every dollar tax deductible
3
partner recovery organizations we've funded
Featured tool

Get the Sober Living Companion app

Built by Empower Next Project, this HIPAA-compliant app supports residents in early recovery — sobriety tracking, GPS-verified meeting check-ins, easy rent payments, and an SOS button — while helping sponsor those who can't cover rent. Free for residents.

Available for iPhone and Android. See everything the app does →

Sober Living Companion

Day 142 sober 🎉

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Meeting check-in
GPS-verified · NA 7:00pm
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Rent
Paid via Zelle · $0 sponsored
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Meetings near you
One-tap Zoom · add to calendar
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SOS
Alert your facilitator instantly
Built for everyone

Recovery looks like every one of us

Substance use and mental-health challenges touch families of every race, age, gender, faith, ability, and income. Our programs are open and welcoming to all — because dignity in recovery isn't reserved for some, it belongs to everyone.

We're committed to equity in who we serve and how we serve them: meeting people where they are, honoring their stories, and removing the barriers that keep too many from a safe place to start over.

All backgrounds welcome LGBTQ+ affirming Faith-friendly & secular Accessible & inclusive Youth & families Veterans
What we do

Our programs

Empower Next Steps

Scholarships for safe, supportive sober-living housing for people transitioning out of treatment — covering the gap that treatment alone can't.

Empower Next Breath

The Empower Life Program: free Naloxone (Narcan) training and access to life-saving overdose-prevention resources for communities of every background.

Our Funded Partners

We fund frontline recovery organizations — Roseville Recovery Center, Sober Living Companion, and Chabad Treatment Center — and showcase tools that keep people supported.

Our blog & newsletter

The Empower Brief — what's changing in recovery across the U.S.

Our blog covers the trends that matter: shifting drug supplies and emerging substances, overdose data, naloxone (Narcan) access, mental-health resources, and the policies shaping recovery nationwide — in plain language, drawn from trusted sources. Subscribe and we'll email you every time we publish a new article.

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A registered tax-exempt nonprofit

Empower Next Project is a tax-exempt organization. Every donation is 100% tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

EIN: 39-3580172

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