AboutMissionOrigins
Help each otherachieve life.
Help Each Other Achieve Life
Our mission
Treatment is the beginning, not the end.
Leaving treatment can be the loneliest part of recovery. The routines, the counselors and the people who understood are suddenly gone, and life — work, housing, family, rides, bills — comes back all at once.
HEAL is a free, peer-led community built for exactly that moment: live meetings with human hosts, a private guided workbook, a help board for real-life needs, and a short list of providers we’ve actually vetted.
Our promise is simple: real people, free support, useful tools, and less isolation.
Where we come from
Born from FightingAddiction Together.
HEAL grew out of Fighting Addiction Together (FAT), a Facebook community of 70,000+ members where people in recovery, families and allies have been showing up for each other for years.
HEAL takes what works there — honesty, encouragement, people who get it — and adds what a Facebook group can’t: safer pseudonymous meetings, private tools, practical help with privacy built in, and a vetting process you can read for yourself.
The 70,000+ figure describes the existing FAT Facebook community, not HEAL accounts.
Principles
What wewon’t compromise on.
People over screen time
Success is measured by real human connection and follow-through — not minutes spent in an app.
Free where it matters
The core community, peer support and meetings are free. Nobody in crisis meets a paywall.
Trust is not for sale
No treatment-center ads in meetings or private workbook flows, no paid vetting, no selling member data.
Honest about limits
HEAL is not a sponsor, clinician, therapist or emergency service. We point you to qualified help.
Sustainability
How HEALstays free.
- Mission-aligned grants
Funding with no strings on meetings, moderation or vetting — and never a cost to join.
- A future partner platform
Tools treatment and sober-living organizations could pay for to support people between visits — kept separate from member data and private journals.
- Never pay-to-play
No per-admission or per-referral payments, no buying a vetting outcome, no sponsored content in meetings or crisis flows.
Questions, partnerships, press or feedback.
FreePeer-ledReal people
Treatment is the beginning, not the end.
The core community is free to join. No pressure, no paywalls in a hard moment — just people who get it, whenever you’re ready.