Promoting Health, Recovery, and Any Positive Change
Harm reduction, advocacy, dignity, and
support for our Evansville community.
Harm Reduction &
Community Support
We are a peer-driven nonprofit focused on reducing overdose deaths and promoting safety, dignity, and empowerment for people who use drugs. Through practical tools, compassionate outreach, and community education, we meet people exactly where they are.
Our team works alongside neighbors experiencing substance use, homelessness, and reentry from incarceration, offering naloxone, safer-use supplies, and connections to care across Evansville and Vanderburgh County.
Peer-Led Advocacy & Overdose Prevention
Evansville Recovery Alliance distributes free Narcan, fentanyl testing strips, and harm reduction supplies to reduce overdose deaths and prevent transmissible disease. Our team includes people with lived experience who understand the challenges of stigma, discrimination, and accessing care.
By prioritizing historically excluded communities, we create pathways to recovery, dignity, and health. Our outreach, training programs, and partnerships help build a safer, more compassionate future for Evansville.
Meeting People
Where They Are
From mobile outreach and self-serve Naloxboxes to harm-reduction education and peer recovery support, we work every day to ensure people in Evansville have what they need to stay safe and move forward at their own pace.
What people are saying
“If you can afford to or know someone with a substance use disorder, consider donating to this great non-profit, Evansville Recovery Alliance. Grants and donations keep non-profits afloat. ERA does more for substance use disorder than most treatment programs that receive insurance money and huge grants that mostly go to administrators and buildings.”
— Bob Tenbarge, Yin Yang Yoga
“Friends, over the last few years I have advocated for the good work that Evansville Recovery Alliance does providing overdose reversal Narcan, fentanyl test strips and harm reduction supplies/education to the Evansville community. It has been a privilege fo volunteer with such an amazing group that truly provides services to meet people where they are and save lives by preventing overdose.”
— Samantha Buente, Human Relations Commission
“Our community needs the ERA to continue saving lives. Life is hard, folks. Addiction is not a moral failure; it’s a disease with no demographic. Living a life in sobriety is not a concept everyone can wrap their heads around. Rehab isn’t the magical place you go for a cure, and Trauma takes years to cope with. Recovery is possible, but we need the ERA to help folks stay safe during their journey.”
— Tina Hornback, Evansville Comprehensive Treatment Center
“Shout out to Evansville Recovery Alliance & NAACP EVV Branch for sponsoring such an amazing & insightful training opportunity. Let’s increase awareness & education and decrease opioid overdoses! Harm Reduction saves lives! More to come! This is just the beginning!” – La Rissa RN, Black Nurses of Evansville
“Thanks to ERA for all the work they do in our community to save lives and bring awareness to this important mission.” — Echo Housing & Community Development
“Harm reduction is empowering people to find, and sometimes create, the recovery pathway that works best for them. Harm reduction is an act of love.” — ERA participant
“We are grateful for your leadership and your continued work to strengthen recovery, prevention, treatment, and harm-reduction efforts across Evansville. Thank you for your commitment to this critical issue. We look forward to partnering with you as this project moves forward.” – Office of Evansville Mayor Stephanie Terry
