FIT TO RECOVER INC
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Mission Statement
FTR is Salt Lake City's only sober gym and community center. We combine exercise, creative expression, good nutrition, and service to help our members sustain their recovery from drugs and alcohol misuse.
About This Cause
Fit To Recover (FTR) is Salt Lake City's only sober gym and community gathering place for the substance use recovery community. FTR's mission statement is: "to help individuals establish and maintain long-term recovery through physical activity, creative endeavors, NUTRITIONAL AWARENESS and membership in a supportive and positive community." The seeds of FTR were planted in 2010 when Founder Ian Acker entered treatment in Provo, Utah for drug and alcohol misuse. Athletic throughout his life and captain of his college soccer team, Ian found that exercise during treatment gave him mental clarity, physical wellness and a sense of optimism that previously had eluded him. He began training his peers in treatment and watched as they had similar experiences with their recovery. Ian started FTR as an informal running group of six in the warm weather months of 2013. Having grown 16-fold to more than 100 paid members in less than two years, and in need of a place for year-round exercise and expanded services, FTR opened its Gym and Community Center on January 5, 2015. In the summer of 2015, Food To Recover was established to serve the critical nutrition needs of the FTR Community. Our registered dietitian staff (The D-Team) planted a community garden, provide recipes and home-cooking tips to FTR members and have developed a prototype of a Recovery Bar, customized for the nutritional needs of those in recovery. At the September 12, 2015 Recovery Day, 100% of those who taste-tested the Food To Recover recovery bar recipes indicated they would add the recovery bar to their daily eating routine. We have begun identifying treatment centers and local/regional grocery stores who would distribute our recovery bars on a trial basis. On September 30, 2015, FTR received the Utah Community Impact Award from the SBA-funded SCORE Association, counselor to more than 1,500 Utah small businesses.