CAREER AND RECOVERY RESOURCES INC
To help people identify and overcome their barriers to achieving a stable life by breaking down barriers for people experiencing substance abuse, underemployment, and housing instability through behavioral and physical wellness, education, workforce development, and affordable housing.
About CAREER AND RECOVERY RESOURCES INC
Career and Recovery Resources, Inc. (CRR) is a Houston-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1945 that provides workforce development, outpatient recovery supports, housing navigation, and transitional employment for people facing high barriers to stability. CRR operates job-readiness and certification programs, a social-enterprise transitional employment arm (UpRise Enterprise), outpatient substance use disorder services, and housing-support services targeted to people exiting the criminal justice system, veterans, youth, and other high-barrier, low-income Houstonians.
In the last several years CRR has expanded program and funding partnerships with local government and regional funders, operated social-enterprise contracts that create paid transitional jobs, and administered federally- and locally-funded projects that combine employment training with substance-use and housing supports to move participants toward sustained employment and stable housing.
Notable achievements
80-year milestone
Founded in 1945, CRR marked eight decades of continuous service delivering workforce, recovery, and housing supports to Houston residents.
UpRise Enterprise (transitional employment)
Operates UpRise Enterprise, a social-enterprise model that creates low-barrier, paid transitional work (maintenance, landscaping, disaster response and related contracts) to build skills, income, and pathways into permanent employment for people experiencing homelessness or other employment barriers.
Secured major public grants and contracts
In recent years CRR has been awarded and administered significant public funding and contracts (including City of Houston CDBG awards and a Continuum of Care HUD grant) to deliver combined employment, housing navigation, and substance-use services for people transitioning from homelessness.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $4.7M
- Annual revenue
- $6.9M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 74-1161942
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Website
- careerandrecovery.org
- On Mahalo since
- September 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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