Center For African American Recovery Development

03/26/2026

This is what opportunity in the community looks like.

People ready to work. Employers ready to show up. A community moving forward—together.

The CRCC Career & Resource Fair is where those connections happen.

📅 April 3, 2026
🕙 10AM – 2PM
📍 Bethel New Life – Amberg Hall
1140 N Lamon Ave, Chicago, IL 60651

03/20/2026

Employment changes lives.

When people connect with meaningful work, families grow stronger, businesses grow stronger, and communities grow stronger.

That’s why the Chicago Recovering Communities Coalition - CRCC Career & Resource Fair matters.

Employers, job seekers, and community organizations will gather to create new pathways to opportunity and workforce growth across Chicago.

CAARD is proud to support CRCC and the community partners helping make this possible.

📅 April 3, 2026
🕙 10AM – 2PM
📍 Bethel New Life – Amberg Hall
1140 N Lamon Ave, Chicago, ILL

03/13/2026

Strong communities grow when people have access to opportunity.

CAARD is proud to support Chicago Recovering Communities Coalition - CRCC and their upcoming
Career & Resource Fair, bringing together employers, job seekers, and community organizations committed to strengthening our workforce.

Through the Hiring to Healing initiative, this effort helps connect prepared job seekers with employers ready to invest in people, opportunity, and community growth.

Events like this create more than job connections—they help build a workforce ecosystem where businesses, people, and neighborhoods can grow together.

📍 CRCC Career & Resource Fair
📅 April 3, 2026
🕙 10AM – 2PM
📍 Bethel New Life – Amberg Hall, Chicago

02/11/2026

CAARD is raising funds to support building black wellness in our communities !
We don’t need to reinvent healing.
We need to resource it.
Black wellness has always lived in our communities.
We’re here to help it grow.
Your support fuels tools, spaces, and leadership rooted in lived experience.
Support Black Wellness.
Donate here: https://www.thecaard.org/donate

02/02/2026

Black history lives in how we’ve taken care of one another.
Long before recovery had funding or formal language, our communities were building spaces to heal — through leadership, care, and lived experience.
This month, CAARD is raising funds to support Black-led recovery and wellness work that has sustained our communities for generations.CAARD can support you in building care in your community- Join Us !
Celebrate Black History Month ! Help us shape our future.
Donate to CAARD here: https://www.thecaard.org/donate
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02/02/2026

Black history lives in how we’ve taken care of one another.
Long before recovery had funding or formal language, our communities were building spaces to heal — through leadership, care, and lived experience.

This month, CAARD is raising funds to support Black-led recovery and wellness work that has sustained our communities for generations.
CAARD can support you in building care in your community- Join Us !

Celebrate Black History Month ! Help us shape our future.
Donate to CAARD here: https://www.thecaard.org/donate

Feel free to repost in support of your family and community!

01/17/2026

Kudos to Dr. Andre Johnson and the Detroit Recovery Project Incorporated on the Recovery Ecosystem Podcast🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Self-help groups have long been a cornerstone of recovery, but their role is often misunderstood, oversimplified, or treated as one-size-fits-all. In this ep...

12/30/2025

Happy Holiday Season and Happy Happy Kwanzaa!!

2025 has been a year that asked more of us than expected — and revealed what truly matters. It was not an easy year, but it was an honest one.

That honesty brought us back to Nia — Purpose- today's Kwanzaa Principle.

Not as an abstract ideal, but as a directive. Nia calls us to be clear about why we do this work, who it serves, and what we are responsible for building — even when the conditions are challenging.

Purpose, this year, wasn’t about comfort. It was about commitment. About choosing the work that matters and carrying it forward with intention.

As we close this year, purpose feels less like a concept and more like a responsibility. Nia calls us to build and develop our communities in ways that restore dignity, protect culture, and create pathways forward — not just for ourselves, but for the generations coming behind us.

This year, CAARD moved with that clarity.

We released Rooted and Ready https://caardtoolkit.com/, the first of its kind — created for us and by us — to honor and sustain the living practices that have always existed in Black communities. Not as history to be archived, but as infrastructure for the future. Ritual as strategy. Culture as continuity. Leadership grounded in lived experience and accountability to community.

This work is not supplemental to the recovery advocacy movement.
It is essential to its success.

And purpose, when taken seriously, also requires partnership. Building durable recovery systems demands aligned, allied investment — support that respects Black leadership, trusts community expertise, and understands that strengthening this work strengthens the movement as a whole.

As this year comes to a close, I’m proud of what we’ve built, clear about why it matters, and confident in where we are headed.

We move forward rooted in purpose.
Ready for what’s next.
Committed to the humanity in the work.

Bless 2026 CAARD Family!

In Solidarity,
Nyla Christian
Executive Director, CAARD

🖤❤️💚

CAARD is a Black-led organization that reclaims and reshapes recovery through culture, community, and collective power, fostering a Black recovery movement.

10/30/2025

Big News from Center for African American Recovery Development. We’re excited to announce the launch of the “Roots to Recovery Toolkit” — a premier resource designed to empower Black-led recovery organizations and community groups nationwide.

With this toolkit, we offer tailored technical training and support to grow culturally-rooted recovery ecosystems from the ground up.

Discover more and access your copy here: https://caardtoolkit.com/

Let’s keep building.

CAARD is a Black-led organization that reclaims and reshapes recovery through culture, community, and collective power, fostering a Black recovery movement.

06/23/2025

The CAARD Collective is growing—and Orangeburg is stepping forward.

This weekend, the Orangeburg Rural Recovery Initiative (ORRI) will host its first Community Strategy Session—bringing together trusted voices, lived experience, and local leadership to shape a recovery ecosystem that reflects the realities of Black and rural communities.

ORRI is part of the CAARD Collective—a national network of Black-led, peer-informed Recovery Community Organizations committed to building sustainable, culturally aligned recovery infrastructure.

This gathering isn’t just a meeting. It’s a community-driven call to action.

This is what recovery leadership looks like—built from the ground up.

06/22/2025

CAARD will be in community with the Tennessee Recovery Hub on Sunday, June 30 for a powerful Community Strategy Session in Nashville!

We’re bringing together returning citizens, recovery leaders, barbers, faith voices, clinicians, educators, and advocates to shape a recovery and reentry movement that’s rooted in our people and built for real change.

• Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Andre Johnson of Detroit Recovery Project Incorporated
• Location: Southeast Branch Library (Nashville)
• Time: 11:30 AM

This is more than a meeting—it’s a movement. Bring your story. Bring your voice. Let’s build the future together.