A Recovery Community Organization — Tampa Bay
Your Journey to Recovery Continues Here
Peer support, Peer Respite, Narcan distribution and recovery advocacy across the Tampa Bay Region — run by people in recovery, for people in recovery.
Prefer to talk? Call 727-223-3453 — a peer support specialist answers, day or night.
What we do
Peer-led, from the street to the doorstep
Outreach Peer Support
An extensive Narcan distribution network across Pinellas and Pasco, with housing-insecure support, direct homeless connections to care, and food-insecurity support.
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The Beloved Community Café
A pay-what-you-can community meal weekdays 10am–2pm in downtown St. Petersburg, and the region's first recovery café program four afternoons a week.
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Peer Respite
A calm, judgment-free place to stabilize — clean beds, meals, and 24/7 peer support for people who don't meet emergency criteria and can't check into a private facility.
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Recovery Advocacy
Dismantling stigma and championing the Recovery Bill of Rights — with elected officials, community leaders, and the public, across the Tampa Bay region.
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Since 2014
Run by people in recovery, for people in recovery
A Recovery Community Organization is its community. These numbers are ours — from our own programs, in our own counties.
1,500+
Floridians stabilized at the Catcher's Mitt since 2023
92%
successful stabilization rate
10,000+
Narcan boxes distributed across Pasco
Our story
Second Recovery Community Organization in Florida
Founded in 2014 and a 501(c)(3) since 2015, Recovery Epicenter Foundation began by raising standards in sober living homes across Tampa Bay — and grew into Peer Respite beds, street outreach, Narcan saturation and statewide advocacy.
In the news
- Tampa Bay TimesAt this St. Petersburg cafe, ‘no one eats alone unless they want to’
- FOX 13 NewsSt. Petersburg cafe: Pay-what-you-can venue opens on Central Avenue
- The St. Pete CatalystIntroducing pay-what-you-can Beloved Community Café
- Spectrum News 1Bay area foundation hands out free Narcan during spring break
- Bay News 9New ‘Outfield’ center helping Pasco County individuals overcome drug addiction
Every contribution rebuilds a life
Financial, material, or a few hours of your time — your support goes directly to the next person walking through the door.
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, established in 2014.