Merrillville, Indiana
We’re a community recovering from substance use, mental health challenges, trauma, homelessness, and systemic racism.
The café is free. Membership is free. There’s nothing to sign up for before you come.
Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday · 1 to 5 pm
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Same shape every open day. Come for any part of it, or for none of it.
6145 Cleveland St
Merrillville, IN 46410
Park at the rear. There are signs outside the door, and a bell to ring.
Café space is ALWAYS open for connecting, games, coffee, resource sharing, and café companions.
Schedule last updated April 2025.
What happens here
Recovery Circles are a crucial facet of our service delivery model, designed to prevent relapse by reducing social isolation, providing positive modeling behaviors, encouraging honest feedback, and increasing emotional support.
The Café Community allows our Members to feel grounded and secure in a warm, welcoming environment that builds stability, strong relationships, and a sense of belonging.
The School for Recovery provides classes to support growth, healing, and discovery. Every single class is designed to provide support, wisdom, and companions for the hard work of making healthier choices as we live with whatever it is we are recovering from. Classes are on a variety of topics: yoga, meditation, writing, life and recovery skills, and more.
We provide support, resources and a community of care along the entire continuum of a person’s need for recovery assistance. We teach people ways to manage mental health, maintain sobriety, and build community. We help each individual reclaim life as a person worthy of giving and receiving love.
At Recovery Café, you matter and you are loved.
Whether you are new to recovery or in long-term recovery, experiencing a crisis or struggling with a relapse, in a mental health transition or going through a difficult life change, the Café is a place of support and stability for all individuals seeking to break the cycle of destruction and despair.
Member of the Recovery Café Network · Registered 501(c)(3)
Four commitments, six principles, no fee. Come to a New Member Intro at 1:15 on any open day.
Orientation runs twice a week, and in-kind gifts keep the doors open.
Case workers, probation, hospitals, churches. Here is what to tell them.
Park at the rear. Ring the bell. Someone will let you in.
