90 Years of Recovery, 90 Years of Hope
On June 10, 1935, two men met in an upstairs room of a modest home in Akron, Ohio. One was a traveling stockbroker at the end of his rope; the other was a local surgeon wrestling with the same illness. They talked for hours, discovering that one alcoholic helping another could spark real, lasting change. That kitchen-table encounter became the birth of Alcoholics Anonymous and, more broadly, the modern Recovery Movement.
Ninety years later, the ripple has reached every corner of the globe. Millions have found sobriety, community, and a renewed sense of purpose because one person dared to say, “You are not alone.” At Fathers’ UpLift, we see that promise every day. For many of the dads we serve, recovery is the bridge that reconnects them to their children and rewrites a family’s future.