ROCHESTER, MINN. -- September 14, 2023
Rochester’s recovery community organizations and recovery advocates are proud to announce that Mayo Clinic will illuminate its campuses purple on Monday, September 18, to honor National Recovery Month for the first time.
Mayo Clinic’s Plummer Building is one of Mayo Clinic and the City of Rochester’s most prominent and recognizable features in the downtown city skyline. While it is illuminated each night, the Carillon Tower atop the Plummer Building is occasionally illuminated with a specific color at the request of various nonprofits to honor and recognize disease-specific causes.
This year, Mayo Clinic will illuminate its Carillon Tower and buildings across its nationwide campuses in Jacksonville, Florida, Scottsdale, Arizona and participating Mayo Clinic Health System sites to honor National Recovery Month.
National Recovery Month was started in 1989 and is a national observance held every September. Recovery Month celebrates those in recovery from substance use disorder and mental health and celebrates improvements and gains led by the recovery community.
A primary goal of Recovery Month is to continue combating stigma while making clear the message that “Recovery is for Everyone: Every person. Every family. Every community.”
“We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to witness the lighting of the Mayo Clinic campuses for National Recovery Month,” says Tori Utley, Executive Director of Doc’s Recovery House, a Recovery Community Organization (RCO) in Rochester. “Substance use disorder and mental health challenges impact millions of people, but due to stigma, many individuals and families suffer in silence. Mayo Clinic’s decision to honor and recognize recovery this month helps us convey to our friends, neighbors, employees, families and community members that recovery is possible for every person, every family, and every community."
”I am grateful for the support from Mayo Clinic and the collaboration with Doc’s Recovery House throughout Recovery Month to help reduce the stigma of substance use disorder,” says Jenna Christensen, Executive Director of Recovery Is Happening.
Non-profit health and wellness-related organizations can request that the Carillon Tower be lighted with a specific color to heighten awareness of their cause. Mayo Clinic buildings will be lit purple nationwide on Monday, September 18th.
About Doc’s Recovery House
Doc’s Recovery House is a recovery community organization in Rochester that provides recovery housing and peer recovery support to individuals pursuing a life of recovery from substance use disorder. Our mission is to reignite the light in each person by treating them with dignity and respect while walking alongside their path to recovery. We do this through peer recovery support, recovery housing offered both pre-treatment and post-treatment and by providing training to empower individuals in recovery to become peer recovery specialists through our Recovery Coaching Academy.
About Recovery Is Happening:
Recovery Is Happening (“RIH”) is one of Minnesota’s oldest leading non profit, full service Recovery Community Organizations, serving the community through public education, policy advocacy and peer-based recovery supports. RIH has a primary focus on mobilizing individual and community resources to promote recovery, through a menu of service or models of care that best fits the needs of the individual, embracing all pathways to recovery.
Press Contact:
Tori Utley, Executive Director, Doc’s Recovery House
Phone: (507) 361-2122
Email: tori@docsrecoveryhouse.org