The Colorado Recovery Friendly Workplace (RFW) Initiative acknowledges the critical role employers hold in elevating the importance of mental health in the workplace. The objective of the initiative is to recruit business leaders across the state to collaboratively identify and implement RFW principles across all industries in order to improve workplace well-being and performance.

The Colorado RFW Pledge, for C-suite executives and other business leaders across all sectors, is an acknowledgment that an organization prioritizes mental health, addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery support for all employees.

What happens after I pledge? 

You join a community of advocates committed to improving mental well-being in the workplace and across Colorado. We will coordinate with you to review what your organization is currently doing to support employees and work with you to implement strategies from Colorado’s RFW Toolkit. These resources will empower your organization to make changes that benefit and support your employees, strengthening your workforce.

Colorado Recovery Friendly Workplace Pledge

Addiction and mental health crises are problems our organization is committed to help solve. By signing below, I pledge that my organization will do what it can to take action.

1. Our organization pledges to create a workplace where it is safe to have uncomfortable and often difficult conversations about addiction and mental health.
2. Our organization pledges to educate employees about the dangers of substance misuse and dispel the myths and stigma surrounding addiction and mental health.
3. Our organization pledges to support employees and family members' access to high-quality prevention, treatment, and/or recovery services.
4. We pledge to create a healthy, safe, and stigma-free work environment by participating in Colorado’s RFW Initiative.

By signing this pledge, I agree to receive email communications on behalf of Colorado’s Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative.

The Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative is a collaborative project of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention, which is part of the University of Colorado Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention, and the Center for Health, Work, and Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health.