Advocate.
Kentucky's grassroots recovery movement. For twenty years, people in recovery, families, and allies have been tearing down the barriers so every Kentuckian can recover.
Recovery is a movement. Join it.
We're the volunteers who carry NARCAN in their cars, the advocates who fill the Capitol every February, and the peer-run centers keeping doors open in 28 counties. Together we work to eliminate the institutional, psychological, and systemic barriers to recovery from substance use disorder.
We put recovery in front of Kentucky lawmakers
Every February, people in recovery fill the Capitol for Recovery Advocacy Day. In 2025, 500+ advocates held 25 legislative meetings in a single day, carrying an agenda written by our own members through the Kentucky Addiction Policy Advocacy Council (KyAPAC). Recovery isn't a talking point here. It's a voting bloc.
See the 2026 agenda
Our members wrote the agenda.
We asked Kentuckians in recovery what stands in their way. Five barriers rose to the top, and they're what we'll fight for at the Capitol. Add your voice.
Share of respondents naming each barrier, PAR 2026 Legislative Priority Questionnaire. Read the priorities
We train communities and keep Kentuckians alive
Last year, 54 volunteer distributors put 4,373 NARCAN kits into 106 ZIP codes, with free refills and no judgment. The Language of Recovery reached 1,697 people across 49 trainings, showing providers, employers, and families how words can dismantle stigma.
“I volunteer because every life is important.”Rebecca Troxell · volunteer naloxone distributor
Find connection or community.
Peer-run recovery community centers and organizations in 28 Kentucky counties, where anyone can walk in and belong. Search by city, county, or ZIP, or tap a county on the map.
List it, then update it yourself: hours, services, contact details. PAR approves every change before it goes live.
Recovery is
Show up.
Four flagship days a year, each with its own page: registration, sponsors, photos, and everything you need to bring your people.
Recovery Advocacy Day
500+ advocates and 25 legislative meetings in 2025.
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Rally 4 Recovery
Organized by people in long-term recovery, their families, and friends. Rain or shine.
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Recovery Summit
2026 roundtables in Ashland, Northern Kentucky, Murray, Pikeville & Georgetown.
Learn more
Leadership Academy
The Townsend & Barry Leadership Academy is accepting applications for its 26/27 cohort.
ApplyOur last year, by the numbers.
The bigger picture: an estimated 24 million American adults are living in recovery.
Stories & successes
All stories
2025Recovery Advocacy Day 2025: 500+ advocates, 25 legislative meetings, one message
2024–25Alabama and Colorado held their first Recovery Advocacy Days, with PAR's mentorship
2025Roundtables in Bowling Green, Murray, Hazard & Frankfort shaped the Recovery Summit
2025Standing with Frankfort: our team helped families clean up and rebuild after the floods
Justice for recovery runs on people like you.
PAR is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Every dollar puts NARCAN in volunteers' hands, trains communities, and carries our members' agenda to the Capitol.