KINS
Kinship Wellness Cooperative

Kinship Wellness Cooperative

Recovery happens between us.

KINS connects people with family, community, nature, stewardship, animals, and purpose—creating more places where participation and belonging can support recovery.

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Federal 501(c)(3) recognition is pending. KINS is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not presently representing contributions as tax-deductible.

Why KINS Exists

Recovery is lived in relationship.

Clinical care matters. So do social services, treatment, and professional support. But recovery is not lived only in appointments. It is lived in homes, neighborhoods, parks, shelters, community centers, family relationships, and the ordinary places where people discover whether they still belong.

KINS is being built around a broader premise: people can reconnect with themselves by reconnecting with the world around them—and by having meaningful ways to participate in it.

BelongingBeing known, welcomed, and expected.
ParticipationHaving something real to contribute.
StewardshipCaring for places, animals, and shared resources.
RelationshipStrengthening the connections that help recovery endure.

Areas of Development

One mission. Different ways back in.

KINS is developing community-centered work across recovery, nature, conservation, animals, and family systems. These areas are connected by one idea: participation can become a pathway back to relationship.

Recovery & Community

Recovery Is Relational

Connection, peer participation, recreation, shared responsibility, and community support beyond formal treatment settings.

Nature & Movement

Outdoor Connection

Shared experiences in parks, trails, and community spaces that create room for movement, conversation, and belonging.

Water & Place

Watershed Stewardship

Water-conservation education, environmental learning, field experiences, and opportunities to care for shared places.

Animals & Care

Shelter Connection

Exploring partnerships where care for animals can create meaningful, grounded participation and community connection.

Family & Youth

Relational Wellness

Emerging work that treats families and caregivers as part of the recovery environment rather than as an afterthought.

The KINS Model

Self. Family. Community. Place.

KINS does not treat nature, animals, community, or recovery as separate themes. They are parts of the environments in which people live—and therefore part of the environments in which reconnection can happen.

Self
Family
Community
Place
Purpose
Animals
Stewardship

Current Initiative

Watershed Stewardship & Community Connection

KINS is developing a community education series focused on water conservation, watershed stewardship, and environmental awareness through accessible community events and experiential learning.

The working model includes multiple community sites, educational workshops, a field experience, and simple, documentable outcomes such as attendance, participant feedback, photos, and conservation commitments.

Santa Clara County 4–6 events · working model Community education Experiential learning

What We Believe

People do not recover in isolation.

Belonging affects recovery.

Being welcomed, expected, and included can matter as much as having access to services.

Families shape the recovery environment.

Recovery changes relationships, responsibilities, routines, and the systems around a person.

Participation restores agency.

People are more than recipients of care. They can contribute, steward, create, teach, and support.

Care for place can become care for self and others.

Shared responsibility can create purpose, connection, and a renewed relationship with community.

Partner With KINS

Build something with us.

KINS is designed to work across sectors. We are interested in relationships where community participation, recovery, stewardship, and belonging can reinforce one another.

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Community OrganizationsShared spaces, local participation, neighborhood connection.
Animal-Welfare PartnersShelter and companion-animal collaboration.
Environmental OrganizationsStewardship, conservation, and experiential learning.
Schools & UniversitiesLearning, volunteers, research, and community engagement.
Healthcare & RecoveryPathways beyond formal treatment environments.
Businesses & FundersResources, sponsorship, space, equipment, and project support.

Support KINS

Help create more ways to reconnect.

Support can take many forms. KINS is interested in project funding, space, transportation, supplies, professional expertise, volunteer involvement, and community partnerships.

Financial support
Project sponsorship
Vehicles & transportation
Community space
Goods & equipment
Professional services

Share your interest

Tell us how you may want to support or collaborate with KINS.

Federal 501(c)(3) recognition is pending. KINS is not presently representing contributions as tax-deductible.

No payment is collected on this website. Submitting this form does not constitute a donation or financial commitment.

Recovery is not a place we arrive alone.

KINS is building more places to participate, contribute, care, reconnect, and belong—because recovery is relational, and community is part of the work.

Contact

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Santa Clara County, California

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