Rise of the Mosaic Village
Something beautiful and powerful is sprouting up around Recovery Cafe West Sac.
With a new resource station across the street, a new urban farm next door, and criss-crossing programming creating a campus of restorative community on Drever Street, the rise of MercyCo’s Mosaic Village project is coming to fruition quickly.
Read more about this deliberate, trauma-informed ecosystem of communal health, hope and healing.
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11:30AM - 3PM
920 Drever Street | West Sacramento
“I’m recovering from 20 years of drug abuse.”
“I’m recovering from childhood trauma.”
“I’m recovering from homelessness and addiction.”
“I’m recovering from mental-health struggles.”
“I’m recovering from traumatic loss.”
Our Members at Recovery Cafe West Sac have all spoken personal truths like these. Maybe you could speak some, too. And maybe - like them - you could find health, growth and joy in a restorative community of like-minded individuals.
The Recovery Cafe isn’t a complicated place. It’s a safe space for those traumatized by substance-use disorders, homelessness, behavioral-health disorders and abuse. It’s not a cafe for the “general public,” per se, but Membership is free and open to anyone.
What’s it take to maintain Recovery Cafe membership? Just three things:
Be 24 hours drug- and alcohol-free when you come to the cafe.
Commit to attending a weekly Recovery Circle (support group) at the cafe
Contribute to the running of the cafe by serving and helping with chores
A longtime champion of restorative community in West Sacramento and the region, Mercy Coalition operates the cafe in collaboration with the nationwide Recovery Cafe Network. In fact, we’re the 49th Recovery Cafe in this network, and the first in the immediate Sacramento vicinity. We learn a lot from our cafe friends in other cities … and we hear an awful lot of stories of changed and stabilized lives.
So come and be among friends who seek to understand.
Come and enjoy a tremendous midday meal, a free espresso during latte hour, and celebrations of birthdays, holidays and accomplishments together. Maybe your portrait will be one of those that adorn our Living Room Wall.
Come and discover what growth and stability means for you, in your context, in your time. Come and hear, and be heard. Come contribute to the community with your unique gifts and talents.
Come choose to try something new with a School For Recovery course, or grow your job skills as part of our Jobs And Mentoring (JAM) Academy.
Come for as many months or years as you like. It’s not a program with an end.
It’s a healing community.
Latest News
NEW URBAN FARM COMING ALONGSIDE RECOVERY CAFE
December 18, 2023 - MercyCo, Community Lutheran Church and the Center for Land-Based Learning completed an agreement in mid-December to bring a new urban farm to church-owned property alongside the Recovery Cafe.
CLBL will operate the quarter-acre farm, located at the corner of Drever Street and Jackson Street in West Sacramento. Produce from the farm will be made available in the cafe (and a lot of other places), and the farm will also be the site of School for Recovery classes in gardening and growing.
MERCY RESOURCE STATION MOVING TO DREVER STREET
December 6, 2023 - After a decade of working out of the Collings Teen Center, the Mercy Coalition just signed a lease for more than 3,000 square feet of space at 929 Drever - across the street from the Recovery Cafe!
Thanks to support from Sutter Health, it's all part of the growing Mosaic Village ecosystem of programs and services surrounding the cafe.
MOSAIC CITY BREAKFAST RETURNS on MARCH 21
December 5, 2023 - Last spring at the inaugural Mosaic City Breakfast benefiting the Recovery Cafe, we discovered a surging spirit of collaborative compassion, possibility and resolve across our city - a belief in the power of restorative community.
That stirring vision has continued to gain momentum and tangible expression in West Sacramento. You’re invited to be a part of the excitement at the 2nd annual Mosaic City Breakfast, being held March 21, 2024 at the Center for Spiritual Awareness.
The Power of Present Encouragement.
The interlocking gears of our restorative community efforts all have this in common: a commitment to safe spaces of hope, empathy and supported resilience.
Coming alongside those impacted by homelessness & poverty in our city.
Safe Spaces
From Winter Warming Centers, to Thrive Lives support groups, to the upcoming Recovery Cafe project, we’re looking to create pockets of restorative community for those most impacted by homelessness, poverty and trauma.
Life Skills Support
Our Thrive Lives program centers around ongoing, weekly support groups that take up such topics as personal finances, time management, goals and priorities, anger management, self-care, and more. Perhaps more importantly, they’re a place to belong.
Workforce Development
Our JAM Academy is a Jobs And Mentoring initiative that allows us to hire, train and learn from individuals with recent lived experience in homelessness and/or recovery. It’s a person-centered approach that identifies and harnesses the strengths of the individual.
Supportive Services
One way we care for our friends in the everyday is by meeting needs for food, clothing, hygiene kits, and even laundry services - whether through programs like the City of West Sacramento’s Project Homekey, or elsewhere.