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Keep it free. Keep it true.
The directory costs nothing to search and the curriculum costs nothing to follow. Both cost something to maintain.
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Elemental Recovery is a 501(c)(3). Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
$25
Verifies ten listings
An hour of calls confirming hours, eligibility, and whether the door is still open.
$100
Covers a month of map data
Location lookups for everyone searching, at our current volume.
$500
Builds out a new county
Curating, calling, and confirming an entire county’s worth of services from scratch.
Where your donation goes
- Verifying directory listings — the phone calls that keep it true
- Curriculum development and keeping it free to read
- Free copies of the workbook for people who ask
- Organizational fees and operational costs
- Reimbursement of approved expenses
No founder salaries. No royalties. No profit taken by anyone.
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Another way to give
Elemental Recovery
The full 365-day curriculum in print — four elements, 52 weeks, a practice for every day. Paperback or Kindle.
Every cent goes to Elemental Recovery. The authors take nothing.
Dr. Allen and Mr. Dawson receive no revenue, royalties, or profit from this book. Proceeds are donated directly to the organization and reinvested in programming.
The whole curriculum is free on this site and always will be. The book is for people who want it on a shelf, in a group, or without a screen.
What’s inside
- 365 daily practices across fire, air, earth, and water
- 52 weekly themes, each with a guiding lens
- The twelve steps, rewritten as affirmations
- The nine alignments and the three connections
- A book, film, and podcast recommendation for nearly every day
Dr. Ryan Joseph Allen & William Dawson, M.Ed.
ISBN 979-8-234-19990-4 · First edition, 2024
If cost is the obstacle
Ask us for a copy
We send free copies when we have funding and stock. No explanation needed, no questions about why.
Give us an email address and we’ll send you a short form for where to post it. Requests are filled in the order they arrive, as availability allows.
Volunteer
Most of what we need is phone calls. An hour a month, from wherever you live.
Verify listings
We send you ten places near you. You call, ask three questions, and mark what you find. No training required.
Curate your county
If you know your area well, help us find the pantries and meetings that never made it onto Google.
Peer support
Certified peer support specialists can help us connect meetings and groups into the directory.
Skills we need
Development, design, grant writing, and translation. Tell us what you’ve got.
Partner with us
Treatment providers
Use the curriculum in your programming, or list your services so people can find you.
Funders
We’re looking for support on data licensing and verification staffing. Both are recurring costs.
Health systems and 211s
If you maintain resource data, let’s talk about sharing it in an open format.
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