69 Linwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14209 | 716.539.5260
Recovery Community
No Fees. No Co-Pays. No Referrals. No Insurance Necessary.
BestSelf Recovery Community was created to give people in all stages of recovery and their families, a safe and welcoming environment to reclaim their lives. The BestSelf Recovery Community takes a holistic approach to recovery, offering a wide range of personalized services to promote healthy lifestyles – from support groups and life-skills training to exercise classes.
No matter what stage of recovery you’re in, who you’re receiving treatment from or where you live in Western New York, you can discover your BestSelf here. The BestSelf Recovery Community is truly a “center without walls,” actively expanding throughout the area to provide people with more pathways to recovery in more places. Since our members help create and drive programming, the BestSelf Recovery Community is always changing and growing to meet their needs!
We welcome people in all stages of recovery. Whether you’ve been in recovery long-term or you’re just starting to explore recovery options, our door is open for you. There are so many ways to get involved in the BestSelf Recovery Community. Each member’s journey can be personalized to t his or her needs. The Recovery Community recognizes and supports multiple pathways to recovery.
Call or visit The BestSelf Recovery Community any time to get started on your journey.
Recovery Community
69 Linwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14209
716.539.5260
Hours:
Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10AM – 6PM
Wednesday: 11AM – 7PM
Thursday: 10AM – 6PM
Friday: 11AM – 7PM
Saturday: 9AM – 4PM
No Fees. No Co-Pays. No Referrals. No Insurance Necessary.
Recovery Community Staff
At the Recovery Community, we’re here to provide support, encouragement, information and guidance to people on their recovery journey. Our programs are created for people in recovery by people in recovery. Our Recovery Community Staff will work 1-on-1 with you to develop a personalized recovery plan, set and attain life goals and connect you with the right resources to help you succeed.
Recovery Care
Find a combination of support groups, seminars, services, classes and activities that are right for you!
• Mutual Support Groups
• Music & Recovery
• Replace Addiction and the family with GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing)
• Recovery Enhancement
• AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)
• NA (Narcotics Anonymous)
• Smart Recovery
• NARCAN Training
Family Support
Family & friends often have trouble knowing how to help their loved ones with addictions. Our family supports can help families and friends understand substance use disorders and recovery as a process, learn about treatment options, how to support a loved one and gain perspective on how to take care of themselves as people who have been impacted by addiction. Family activities such as Paint Night, BINGO and more are also available.
Education & Vocation
Whether you’re looking to get back in the workforce, or you’re ready to start learning again, BestSelf Recovery Community has resources that can work for you.
Volunteer Opportunities
Give back by helping others through volunteering to provide peer to peer support!
October 2026 Calendar
Hello BestSelf Team and Our Valued Community Partners,
As we turn the calendar from September into October, we want to begin with something that is deeply important to us:
Recovery Month may have ended, but recovery does not!
Recovery happens every day, in the big victories we celebrate and in the quiet moments nobody else sees. It happens when someone decides to try one more time. When someone walks through our doors unsure of what they need but knowing they need something. When a person reaches out instead of isolating. When someone returns after a setback and is welcomed with compassion instead of judgment.
💚 GLOBAL PEER SUPPORT CELEBRATION DAY
On Thursday, October 15, we join people around the world in celebrating Peer Support and, more importantly, celebrating the incredible people who have taken pieces of their own lived and living experiences and turned them into hope for somebody else.
As Peers and people with lived and living experience, this celebration is especially close to our hearts.
We know firsthand that peer support is more than a title, a credential, or a job. It is connection. It is relationship. It is saying, “I may not have walked in your exact shoes, but I know what it feels like to need someone to walk beside me.”
That is the power of PEER!
Peers bring something into our systems that cannot be learned from a textbook alone: the wisdom of lived and living experience. We bring our stories, our resilience, our lessons, our mistakes, our victories, and sometimes even the scars from the journey, and we use them with purpose!
At the BestSelf Recovery Community Outreach Center, that peer spirit is alive every day.
Our Center is a welcoming, non-judgmental, peer-run recovery community where people can walk through the door exactly as they are. Whether someone is celebrating years in recovery, beginning again today, supporting a family member, navigating mental health challenges, or simply searching for connection, there is a place for them here.
So this October, we want to say THANK YOU TO OUR PEERS!
Thank you to the peers across BestSelf who bring your lived and living experience into your work every day![
Thank you to our Peer Mentors, Peer Advocates, Family and Youth Peers, volunteers, and those working toward their credentials.
Thank you to the peers working quietly behind the scenes who may never know how deeply one conversation, one phone call, one shared experience, or one simple “I understand” may impact another person’s life.
And thank you to our leadership, staff, and community partners who continue to make room for peer voice, not only at the table, but in the conversations and decisions that affect the people and communities we serve.
Peer support isn’t about doing for people. It is about walking WITH people.
That is something worth celebrating, not only on Global Peer Support Celebration Day, but every single day!
🍂 October at 69 Linwood
Our October calendar continues that spirit of connection with peer-run groups, recovery meetings, mindfulness, creative writing, Music in Recovery, SMART Recovery, 12-Step meetings, LGBTQIA+ Support, Gratitude Group, Recovery Open Mic, self-care, movement, karaoke, and much more.
October also recognizes several important awareness observances, including Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Mental Illness Awareness Week, OCD Awareness Week, ADHD Awareness Month, and Depression Awareness Month. These reminders matter because recovery is about the whole person. Mental health, substance use, trauma, grief, family, relationships, and life experiences do not exist in separate boxes, and neither should our support.
🤝 Our Resource Partners Are Here for YOU!
One of the things we love about a Recovery Community is that we don’t have to be everything to everybody. We connect people to one another.
Throughout October, our Resource Partners will be right here at 69 Linwood, bringing services and support directly into our Recovery Community.
This month, our partners include resources around housing, community access and advocacy, harm reduction, mental health peer connection, LGBTQIA+ support, grief support, and other community needs.
For us as Peers, that is what being a Resource Broker is all about! We don’t have to have every answer or be everything to everybody. Our role is to listen, connect, walk alongside, and help people access the resources and supports that meet their needs and their chosen pathway. Sometimes the most powerful thing we can say is, “I may not have what you need, but I know where we can start, and I’ll walk with you.” 💚
To our BestSelf teams and community partners: if you have a participant, family member, or someone in the community who could benefit from one of these resources, please send them our way! Our Resource Partners are here so people can make connections in a familiar, welcoming, peer-supported environment.
Please see the attached October Resource Partners schedule for the specific organizations, dates, and times.
🎃 And We’re Ending October With Some Sober FUN!
On Friday, October 30 from 1–3pm, join us for our Halloween Festivities at the Recovery Community Center!
We’ll have pizza, wings, candy, laughter, connection, and plenty of recovery-friendly sober fun! Costumes are encouraged, but absolutely not required. Come as you are and celebrate with us! 👻🍕🍬
Because recovery is also about learning how to have fun again, building community, making memories, and celebrating life, together. 💚
Please take a look at the attached October 2026 Recovery Community Center Calendar, New Groups & Events, and Resource Partners information and share them widely with participants, families, colleagues, and anyone in our community who may benefit!
No one has to have everything figured out before they walk through our doors.
As we move through October, we hope we remember:
Our lived experience has value!
Our stories have purpose!
Our voices belong at the table!
Recovery is possible!
Hope is real!
And community is powerful!💚
Our stories have purpose!
Our voices belong at the table!
Recovery is possible!
Hope is real!
And community is powerful!💚
Happy Global Peer Support Celebration Day to every Peer who continues to turn lived experience into lived expertise, connection into hope, and recovery into possibility.
We see you!
We value you!
We celebrate you!
We value you!
We celebrate you!
Recovery Month was September, but RECOVERY IS EVERY DAY!
And we will keep walking forward, together!
With gratitude, recovery, and PEER PRIDE,
The Recovery Community Center Team 💚