Redefine Recovery
Transform community recovery from an aspirational idea into the new standard of care.
Our Approach
We’re not fixing a broken system. We’re building a new one.
Community recovery works. We’ve proven it for 20 years.
But institutions won’t change until we translate lived experience into their language: peer-reviewed research, longitudinal data, and evidence they can’t dismiss.
With 44.6 million Americans struggling and only 1 in 7 receiving any treatment or support, this evidence drives meaningful adoption by funders, policymakers, and programs, making it possible to scale what works while keeping communities at the center.
What We’re Doing
3 Years
of prospective, longitudinal research following new members to understand how community-based support shapes recovery and flourishing over time — and publish the findings
In Their Words
What the research shows.
For two decades, The Phoenix has been generating the kind of evidence that changes how institutions think about recovery. This is what that looks like.
Our Vision
The way our society approaches healing is upended. Not as treatment delivered to people, but as community built by them.
Rigorous Research & Longitudinal Data
Three years of prospective outcome research, generating peer-reviewed studies that translate two decades of community evidence into the institutional proof that funders and policymakers require.
Rigorous Research & Longitudinal Data
Three years of prospective outcome research, generating peer-reviewed studies that translate two decades of community evidence into the institutional proof that funders and policymakers require.
Grassroots Data Infrastructure
Thousands of participants and partner organizations connected through one coordinated system — shared dashboards, real-time reporting, and unified standards so the entire field can learn from itself.
Learn MoreGrassroots Data Infrastructure
Thousands of participants and partner organizations connected through one coordinated system — shared dashboards, real-time reporting, and unified standards so the entire field can learn from itself.
Learn MorePartnerships That Move Policy
We’re not waiting for institutions to catch up. We’re partnering with universities, researchers, policymakers, and cultural leaders to embed evidence of community-powered healing into funding streams, public policy, and national awareness.
Partnerships That Move Policy
We’re not waiting for institutions to catch up. We’re partnering with universities, researchers, policymakers, and cultural leaders to embed evidence of community-powered healing into funding streams, public policy, and national awareness.
The Evidence
Read Receipts
We have steadily built a body of research and partnerships with leading experts to demonstrate the value of community-driven recovery. And with our prospective, longitudinal study now underway, the strongest evidence is still to come.
Research
Building Connection Through Digital Community
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Read the studyOur prospective, longitudinal study is underway.
Explore the Belonging & Becoming StudyExplore all Phoenix research
You've seen the evidence. You've heard the story. Now be part of it.
$47 million is already committed. 80+ organizations are already building. Ten million people are still waiting. Your pledge today puts recovery in reach for someone who doesn't have it yet.