About Able Place Recovery
Able Place Recovery was created to address a critical and long-ignored gap in addiction treatment: the absence of recovery programs designed specifically for people who use wheelchairs.
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Across the world, individuals with spinal cord injuries and other mobility-limiting disabilities are routinely excluded from drug and alcohol treatment—not because they lack the desire to recover, but because facilities are inaccessible, unsafe, or unwilling to accommodate them.
Able Place Recovery exists to change that reality.
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We are building the world’s first drug rehabilitation and recovery program designed from the ground up for wheelchair users.
Why We Exist
For people who use wheelchairs, seeking addiction treatment often means facing closed doors, unsafe environments, and loss of dignity. Most rehab facilities are designed for able-bodied individuals and attempt to “adapt” accessibility only when required—often inadequately and sometimes dangerously.
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Many wheelchair users are denied admission outright. Others are accepted into facilities where basic daily activities like bathing, transferring, or sleeping become unsafe or humiliating. After treatment, accessible sober living and aftercare options are even harder to find, leaving many without support at their most vulnerable moment.
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Over time, repeated rejection leads many people with disabilities to stop asking for help altogether. The consequences of this failure are devastating—for individuals, families, and communities.
Able Place Recovery exists because recovery should not be conditional on physical ability.
What We Are Doing
Able Place Recovery is developing a fully accessible, trauma-informed recovery environment where addiction treatment and physical accessibility are equally prioritized.
Our program is designed to provide:
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Wheelchair-accessible housing built for safety, independence, and long-term living
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Addiction recovery programming that recognizes the intersection of disability, trauma, and substance use
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Environments that preserve dignity rather than compromise it
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Staff trained to understand both addiction recovery and physical disability
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Continuity of care that includes accessible aftercare and community support
This is not an adaptation of existing models—it is a new standard built intentionally for the people it serves.
How We Are Doing It
Able Place Recovery is being built through a combination of community support, donations, partnerships, and professional collaboration. Donations play a critical role in allowing us to design spaces that go beyond minimum accessibility requirements—spaces that are comfortable, safe, and supportive of healing.
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We work closely with hospitals, treatment centers, case managers, courts, and spinal cord injury organizations to ensure referrals are appropriate and that each individual receives care aligned with their needs.
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Every aspect of Able Place Recovery is informed by lived experience, not assumptions. Our facilities, programs, and policies are shaped by the real challenges faced by people in wheelchairs navigating addiction and recovery.
Who We Are Doing This For
Able Place Recovery exists for individuals in wheelchairs who deserve access to recovery without humiliation, danger, or exclusion. We do this work for families who have struggled to find safe, appropriate care for their loved ones. We do it for communities that have lost people simply because help was inaccessible.
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Most importantly, Able Place Recovery is designed by people who understand disability firsthand. This is a place built by lived experience, for those who were never considered in traditional recovery models.
Our Vision
We envision a future where physical disability is no longer a barrier to recovery—where people in wheelchairs can access addiction treatment that is safe, respectful, and effective.
Able Place Recovery is not just a facility. It is a commitment to dignity, inclusion, and the belief that everyone deserves a real chance at healing.