Our guest speaker on Friday, May 23rd was Kyle Roscoe, Executive Director of the Everett Recovery Cafe for the past 15 months. The Mission of the Everett Recovery Cafe is to be a safe, healing community for individuals in recovery from the trauma of homelessness, addition, mental health challenges and to empower long-term transformation through human connection. Guest are welcomed but must be drug and alcohol free.
There are 77 recovery cafes in the United States. Kyle joined the Board and was asked to find the next Executive Director. Kyle had a number of resumes but the President of the Board, asked him to take over as the Executive Director. Kyle was in the banking business prior to the Everett Recovery Cafe. Vision is to feed people everyday, Monday thru Friday. Meals usually consist of soup and salad. Budget is around $2 million dollars with most of the funds coming from fundraising and 80% from grants.
Kyle is in recovery personally and celebrated his tenth year in recovery. Kyle enjoys soccer, baseball and is a professional wrestler.