Rage Against Addiction | Recovery Month 2026

Recovery Month Is Here

September is National Recovery Month, and for Rage Against Addiction, it is always one of the most meaningful and busiest times of the year.

Recovery Month is an opportunity to celebrate the people doing the hard work of recovery, recognize the families and communities walking beside them, and remind people that recovery is possible.

Here at RAGE, we get to see that possibility every day.

Our Daughter’s House homes are full. Women are working, rebuilding relationships, learning how to navigate everyday life in recovery, supporting one another, and beginning to imagine a future that may have once felt impossible.

That is what this work is really about.

Home Runs for Hope

Last weekend, we came together for our annual Home Runs for Hope softball fundraiser!

With teams taking the field for a day of friendly competition, food, community, and fun, Home Runs for Hope is more than a fundraiser. It is another way to bring people together around recovery and remind our community that there is hope after addiction.

We are incredibly grateful to the teams, volunteers, supporters, and community partners who make events like this possible.

And we aren’t slowing down after the last inning!

Our annual Recovery Month Bingo is this weekend. Bingo has become another fun RAGE tradition and an important fundraiser that helps us continue providing recovery housing and support to women in our community.

We hope to see many familiar faces there!

We also want to extend a special thank you to the businesses, organizations, and individuals who donated baskets, gift cards, and other items for our upcoming Recovery Month Bingo. The generosity we receive from our community during Recovery Month and throughout the year allows us to continue providing safe recovery housing and support to women working to rebuild their lives.

Thank you for continuing to believe in our mission and in the power of recovery.

And we aren’t slowing down after the last inning!

What a Year of Opportunity Has Looked Like

This month, I will also have the opportunity to participate in a panel at the Harford County drug symposium and talk about RAGE’s experience during our first year as a recipient of funding through the Opioid Restitution Fund.

I would describe this grant as a wonderful opportunity.

If you are part of a nonprofit organization right now, you probably understand just how challenging the current climate has become. Donations are down. Fundraising participation is tougher. Costs continue to rise. Many organizations are being asked to do more while working with fewer resources.

We are all going through it.

Funding through the Opioid Restitution Fund has allowed RAGE to strengthen the work we are already doing while also looking more intentionally at what women need beyond simply having a safe place to live.

Over the past year, we have continued developing our approach to whole-person recovery—introducing women to different dimensions of wellness and planting seeds that can continue growing long after they leave Daughter’s House.

Because recovery isn’t just about not using a substance.

It’s about learning how to live again.

The Houses Are Full—and Women Are Thriving

Despite the challenges happening around us, there is so much good happening inside our homes.

Our houses are full. Women are thriving. And this program is changing lives.

Sometimes those changes are big and easy to see. Other times, they happen in the smallest everyday moments.

Getting a job.

Cooking dinner with the other women in the house.

Learning how to manage money.

Reconnecting with family.

Going to a meeting when you don’t feel like going.

Sitting on the porch and realizing that today feels a little different than yesterday.

Recovery happens in those moments.

And we wanted to find a way to share more of them with you.

NEW: Sober Living Chronicles

We recently introduced Sober Living Chronicles, a new series on the RAGE blog that gives our supporters a closer look at everyday life in sober living.

There is so much more to recovery than what people see from the outside.

Sober Living Chronicles will take you into some of those ordinary moments—the struggles, milestones, laughter, frustration, sisterhood, and small victories that happen as women begin putting their lives back together.

It is the journey from hopelessness to discovering hope in everyday experiences.

We hope these stories help our community better understand why recovery housing matters and, most importantly, remind us that behind every statistic is a person with a story that is still being written.

Love, Loss, and Hope

Recovery Month reminds us why Rage Against Addiction exists.

There is the love we have for the people and families affected by addiction.

There is the loss that so many of us carry.

And then there is hope.

Hope is a house full of women choosing recovery today.

Hope is a community showing up at a softball field, buying a bingo ticket, making a donation, volunteering, or simply taking the time to learn more about recovery.

Thank you for continuing to show up with us.

Love, Loss, and Hope.

— Wendy Beck
Founder & Executive Director
Rage Against Addiction