Sobriety & Recovery Support

iCare Foundation is developing a Sobriety & Recovery Support program to walk alongside individuals in Greater Tampa Bay who are battling addiction. Addiction is a health crisis — not a moral failure — and recovery requires more than willpower. It requires community, accountability, practical support, and the presence of people who have walked the same road and come out the other side.

Our program will build a peer-centered recovery support model — trained recovery coaches, community accountability groups, and wraparound resource navigation — designed to complement clinical treatment, support long-term sobriety, and address the housing, employment, and family barriers that make recovery so difficult to sustain. No one should have to recover alone.

Hillsborough County consistently ranks among Florida's highest counties for drug overdose deaths. Addiction does not discriminate by income, race, or background — but its consequences are most devastating in communities already experiencing economic stress, housing instability, and limited access to healthcare. For many individuals in Greater Tampa Bay, treatment is inaccessible, and recovery support is nonexistent.

The gap is not in people's desire to recover. The gap is in accessible, community-based support between treatment episodes and on the long road of sustained sobriety. iCare's recovery support program is designed to fill that gap — providing the peer connection and practical resources that make the difference between relapse and lasting recovery.