The Lewis Clark Alano Club is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that has been helping local people with alcohol and other drug problems to resume an alcohol and drug-free life since the early 1960s. Its purpose is to provide people in recovery with a safe and clean place to gather for recovery meetings, fellowship, and recreation, in a supportive environment in which people can work at changing their lives. The Alano Club is home to over 31 meetings a week for 12-Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Over Eaters Anonymous and other recovery groups, serving close to 1,000 people a week.
The Alano Club is located at 1435 Elm Street in Clarkston. It is a site for Recovery meetings, fellowship, and recreation. It is a place of hope for those who are suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction; a place to go when afraid, or lonely and suffering. It is a resource to the recovery community, a support for the families and loved ones of those struggling with alcoholism and addiction, and most of all, a place where miracles occur.
By its own traditions, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) cannot finance or lend its name to any outside organization, so “clubhouses” for recovering alcoholics sprang up in the 1930s soon after AA’s founding. Initially called “24-Hour Clubs,” and operated apart from AA by recovering alcoholics, these institutions met the need among recovering people and their families for companionship and sober recreation, and soon came to be called “AA’s second miracle.” Alano Clubs are the most common among the thousands of recovery clubs around the world that provide “safe haven” to travelers who are recovered alcoholics and addicts as well as a social hub for the local recovery community.