Saturday, Sept 26th, 2026 – 10am-2pm
This annual event gathers people from the many paths of recovery to celebrate our common goal of freedom from addiction, to increase awareness of addiction and recovery, and to inspire collaboration and community.
For this years event, we present 4 speakers covering recovery topics such as:
- Recovery within professional and competitive industries
- Finding personal excellence in recovery
- Thriving in recovery as a trauma survivor
- Balancing anonymity as a public figure
- Transitioning to working in treatment while in recovery
- Women and mothers navigating recovery journeys
- And more
We’ll also have representatives for various recovery groups and organizations available to provide literature and answer questions. We pride ourselves on being one of the few events where different recovery groups come together under one roof.
- Free admission
- Optional $10 spaghetti lunch
- Door prizes and silent auction
- And more
For those unable to make it, we’ll have a livestream starting after 10am (return here for link)
Our guest speakers:
Frank Sommerville
A Berkeley native and five-time Emmy winner, Frank Somerville anchored the news for 30 years at KTVU, with earlier stops in Santa Rosa, Minnesota, and Rhode Island. Along the way he flew with the Blue Angels, witnessed two executions at San Quentin and an autopsy, and has been a vegetarian since age 12 on moral grounds. A father of two daughters, he now shares his own candid story of struggle and recovery.
more about Frank SommervilleBrandon Turner
Brandon Turner is living proof that a life can be rebuilt. A San Diego skateboarding prodigy known as “Lil’ B,” he rose through Shorty’s and Osiris to legend status—then nearly lost it all to addiction, DUIs, and prison. Through recovery and hard inner work, he turned his comeback into a calling: founding and leading West Side Recovery, mentoring youth, and sharing his story so others know transformation is possible.
more about Brandon TurnerJennifer Nauert-Lewis
Jennifer Nauert-Lewis is the founder of the nonprofit Reweaving Network and a living testament to recovery and resilience. After surviving childhood abuse, addiction, prison, homelessness, and life-altering strokes and aneurysms that left her permanently disabled, she rebuilt her life through recovery, education, and service. Today she works in tribal health and higher education, helping others heal from trauma and substance use while championing culturally rooted pathways to wellness.
more about Reweaving NetworkMichael P.
Michael P. represents SMART Recovery in the Bay Area, offering a science-based, self-empowering alternative in the recovery landscape. Grounded in cognitive-behavioral tools rather than labels, SMART Recovery helps people build motivation, cope with cravings, manage thoughts and behaviors, and live balanced lives. Through free, peer-led meetings and evidence-informed practices, Michael and SMART Recovery meet people where they are and put personal choice at the center of healing.
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Sponsors and Featured Organizations
Westside Recovery
Westside Recovery is a premier alcohol and drug treatment facility in San Diego. Our center excels in offering holistic treatment approaches and personalized treatment strategies, affirming our status as a leader in California’s rehabilitation industry.
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Change Recovery
At Change Recovery, we assist men suffering from alcohol and drug addiction to gain the tools they need to achieve long term sobriety. We are dedicated to offering a safe environment to support the change happening in lives of men in recovery.
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Parisi House on the Hill
We support women on their journey to break free from addiction while helping them get the tools they need to take control of their lives and become better parents to their kids. We’re one of the only residential drug and alcohol treatment centers in Santa Clara County where moms can stay with their babies and young children.
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Al-Anon
Al-Anon is a mutual support group of peers who share their experience in applying the Al-Anon principles to problems related to the effects of a problem drinker in their lives. It is not group therapy and is not led by a counselor or therapist. This support network complements and supports professional treatment.
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Recovery Cafe
Recovery Cafe San Jose is a healing community for those traumatized by addiction, homelessness, and mental health challenges, and founded on the belief that every human being is precious, worthy of love and deserving of the opportunities to fulfill his or her potential. In this loving community people who cannot afford long-term recovery services come to belong, heal and know themselves as loved. Visit website
Alano Club of San Jose
Here, newcomers to recovery find the information and guidance they need, while experienced members offer encouragement and fellowship. Our doors are open for 12-step meetings and a wide range of recovery-related activities.
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New Life Recovery Centers
New Life Recovery Centers, Inc. strives to provide our clients with the very best services available. We value our employees as our greatest asset, while collectively and continuously working to adopt and implement the latest and most effective clinical and science-based social treatments.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who come together to solve their drinking problem. It doesn’t cost anything to attend A.A. meetings. There are no age or education requirements to participate. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem.
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Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous is a global, community-based organization with a multilingual and multicultural membership. NA was founded in 1953, and members hold more than 72,000 meetings weekly in 143 countries today.
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SMART Recovery
Self-Management And Recovery Training (SMART) is a global community of mutual-support groups. At meetings, participants help one another resolve problems with any addiction (to drugs or alcohol or to activities such as gambling or over-eating).
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Recovery Dharma
We are a peer-led movement and community that is unified by our trust in the potential of each of us to recover and find freedom from the suffering of addiction. We believe that recovery means empowerment, and we support each other as partners walking the path of recovery together.
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Family Giving Tree
The Family Giving Tree envisions a world where Giving brings joy, offers hope and opens possibilities. By inspiring community kindness, generosity, and volunteerism, The Family Giving Tree fulfills exact holiday wishes and provides backpacks filled with STEAM-based school supplies to those in need.
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LifeRing Secular Recovery
LifeRing Secular Recovery is an organization of people who share practical experiences and sobriety support. LifeRing’s emphasis on the positive, practical present-day can turn anger and despair into hope and resolve.
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Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center
The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center provides community, leadership, advocacy, services and support to the Silicon Valley’s LGBTQ People and their Allies. We strive to be the community’s premier resource hub and a recognized leader in promoting health, strength, diversity and inclusiveness.
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Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food.
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Star Fellowship
Founded in 1995, Star Fellowship has been dedicated to fostering a community that thrives on joy and mutual support. Our mission is to create a space where individuals can connect, grow, and celebrate life together.
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Marijuana Anonymous
Marijuana Anonymous is a free peer-support program focused entirely on our shared problem with marijuana or cannabis addiction. Marijuana Anonymous uses the basic 12 Steps, founded by Alcoholics Anonymous, because it has been proven that the 12-Step recovery program works.
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Crystal Meth Anonymous
Crystal Meth Anonymous is a non-profit 12-step fellowship for those in recovery from addiction to crystal meth. There are no dues or fees for membership. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using drugs.
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Russian-speaking Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) of USA & Canada
Russian-speaking Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) of USA & Canada is a fellowship of people who come together to solve their drinking problem. There are no age or education requirements to participate. It doesn’t cost anything. Our primary purpose is to help alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
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