Mobilize Recovery and Brightn Announce Partnership to Bring Daily Mental Wellness Support to the National Recovery Community

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Emilie Mauricio

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Las Vegas, NV and Cedar Rapids, IA | November 12th, 2026

Mobilize Recovery, the national advocacy nonprofit named 2025 Small Nonprofit of the Year at the Anthem Awards, and Brightn, a 24/7 upstream mental wellness platform, today announced a partnership to bring free daily mental wellness support to the recovery community. Through the partnership, members of the Mobilize Recovery community will receive free premium access to Brightn, giving them a daily support tool that lives in their pocket between meetings, appointments, and everything in between.

The partnership pairs one of the country’s most influential recovery advocacy movements with a platform built for the everyday work of staying well. It builds on an existing relationship between the two organizations and marks the first time Brightn premium access has been offered to the Mobilize Recovery community at scale.

Recovery Does Not Keep Office Hours

More than 23 million Americans are in recovery from addiction. For most of them, the hardest moments do not happen inside a meeting or a scheduled appointment. They happen at 11pm on a Tuesday. They happen during a stressful week at work, a hard conversation with family, or a quiet stretch when the structure of the day falls away.

That gap between formal support is where relapse risk lives, and it is largely unsupported. Brightn is designed to sit in that space. Through AI-guided journaling, daily mood check-ins, habit-building tools, medication support, and weekly wellness planning across Health, Wealth, and Purpose, Brightn helps people notice their patterns early and take one small step, without shame and without waiting for a crisis.

Brightn is not a treatment and does not replace clinical care, peer support, or a recovery program. It is built to strengthen what people are already doing by making daily reflection and self-awareness easy to return to.

A Community Built on Lived Experience

Mobilize Recovery was founded in 2019 on the idea that change happens when the people most affected by an issue are organized, visible, and impossible to ignore. Since then, the organization has recruited and trained more than 10,000 advocates across all 50 states, distributed more than 982,000 free doses of naloxone through its Overdose Response Initiative, and built a national network of people in recovery, family members, clinicians, and allies.

That work has drawn national recognition. Mobilize Recovery earned seven honors at the 2025 Anthem Awards, including Small Nonprofit of the Year, holds a four-star rating from Charity Navigator and a Candid Platinum Transparency Seal, and co-founder Ryan Hampton was named to the 2026 TIME100 Health list of the most influential people shaping the future of global health.

For Brightn, reaching this community is not a distribution play. It is an alignment of approach. Both organizations start from the same belief: that people are the experts on their own lives, and that support works best when it is offered without judgment.

Why This Partnership Matters

“Mental health isn't linear, and it doesn't keep office hours. The hardest moment of someone's week is rarely the one on the calendar. It's a random Thursday night when you're alone with your own thoughts,” said Jeff Johnston, Founder and CEO of Brightn. “That is the space we built Brightn for. We are not here to replace anyone’s program, their peers, or their clinician. We are here for the hours in between, so that showing up for yourself feels a little more possible the next day. Mobilize Recovery has spent years proving that this community shows up for each other. We are honored to help give them one more tool.”

“Recovery doesn’t happen only in meetings. It happens in the ordinary hours of everyday life. Our community has asked for tools that meet them there, and Brightn does exactly that. We’re proud to give every advocate in our network free access to daily support that works alongside their program, peers, and care,” said Ryan Hampton, co-founder of Mobilize Recovery.

About Mobilize Recovery

Mobilize Recovery is a national 501(c)(3) advocacy nonprofit dedicated to ending America’s addiction and overdose crisis, one voice at a time. Founded in 2019, the organization brings together a cross-sector cohort of advocates, allies, and stakeholders to drive measurable, sustainable, and action-oriented solutions that create resilient communities of recovery. Through organizer training, annual convenings, and its Overdose Response Initiative, Mobilize Recovery has trained more than 10,000 advocates nationwide and distributed more than 982,000 free doses of naloxone. Learn more at www.mobilizerecovery.org.

About Brightn

Brightn is an AI-powered upstream mental wellness platform that helps individuals and organizations move from reactive care to proactive support. Through clinically-informed design, reflective journaling, and early pattern recognition, Brightn strengthens emotional awareness and resilience while enabling seamless access to clinical care when needed. Built around the three pillars of Health, Wealth, and Purpose, Brightn combines AI-guided journaling, mood tracking, habit-building tools, medication support, and personalized planning to help people build consistency through small, realistic steps. Learn more at www.brightn.app.

Brightn’s mission is simple: to Brightn lives by keeping people well long before crisis.

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