Overcomers on the Move was founded in 2017 by Director Kim Flynn. Her faith in Jesus, lived experience with substance use disorder, and healing in recovery inspired her to start a recovery community organization. “My peers were my greatest strength and inspiration.” Kim learned in recovery that she was not the only one who suffered from co-occurring disorders, incarceration, victimization by human trafficking, and failed attempts at recovery from substance use disorder.
Kim’s experience empowered her to envision helping others overcome these issues. Her journey consisted of many pathways to recovery, including clinical counseling, peer support, faith-based support, and recovery programming in the community.
The first Grace Gathering Outreach began in June 2020 on the late Ms. Victoria Flynn’s birthday. Ms. Victoria Flynn is Kimberly’s mother, whom Kim often refers to as her hero for overcoming her untreated co-occurring disorders.
The outreach began with volunteers bringing home-cooked food and hygiene items from their homes. The street outreach started in an empty parking lot on the Hilltop to share the love of God, offer peer support, and instill hope. Many community members joined them for prayer, food, and resources.
In August 2022, they opened their first faith-based recovery housing program for women. Since the recovery housing program opened, 18 women have graduated. These graduates had not completed another program previously, underscoring the critical importance of peer support services.
In April 2024, they began a peer internship program to improve the peer workforce. Eight interns are now Certified Peer Recovery Supporters working in the behavioral field.
Overcomers on the Move is a Recovery Community Organization in the heart of the Hilltop. Expanding peer support services, developing multiple community partnerships to aid with harm reduction, opioid prevention, implementing new initiatives to support the recovery community, and continues to offer education on recovery capital and anti-human trafficking.
Their passion is to spread awareness, prevent overdose, empower others by fostering recovery capital, provide affordable recovery housing, and peer support services.
WE MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE. WE RECOVER BETTER TOGETHER.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
Revelation 12:11 NKJV
