Empowering Students, Promoting Access
Students Recover provides a safe, inclusive space for students in higher education to connect, heal, and thrive. Our commitment to restorative justice and equity guides our mission to support those who face barriers to academic and personal success due to substance use and mental health challenges.
Our Mission
To provide a digital student recovery community that centers the needs of students of color in higher education.
Our Vision
To transform the lives of students experiencing substance use and other mental health issues by addressing social determinants of health and cultivating a community of care dedicated to restorative justice and collective liberation.
Our Story
Our Purpose
Students Recover is driven by a mission to positively impact the lives of students who face the most barriers to their survival and academic success. Dr. Kristine De Jesus has committed the last ten years of her career to change these dominant paradigms and increase access to people who need it most. With the support of the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton University, Students Recover is the first of its kind, globally: an organization dedicated to serving the needs of students in recovery with non-dominant identities. Our work is simple: providing a community of care that increases access to online resources and recovery supports while removing barriers to success.
Our Principles
- Recovery support should be free and accessible to every students.
- Substance Use is a mental health diagnosis and not amoral failing.
- Mental health issues and substance use areintimately related.
- Harm Reduction minimizes negative consequences and improves health outcomes.
- Recovery is a dynamic, relational process focused on well-being and connection.
- Collective liberation is essential to the health and well-being of the individual and the community.