Advisory Council

Recovery is too big to solve alone.

Cope Compass is built with clinicians and recovery experts who have spent decades doing this work. They hold us to the standard the people who rely on us deserve, and they keep the mission honest.

2Founding members
3Open positions
25+Years in recovery work

Founding member

Gambling is the only addiction that offers hope. That is what makes it hard to stop.
Portrait of Billy Hoffman

Billy Hoffman

Peer Advisor

CPRS · CSAC-A

I started gambling at fifteen. Lottery tickets, poker, the horse track, and the backroom machines nobody wants to talk about. By thirty I had been married and divorced twice and could not tell you how much I had lost. Twenty-five years in recovery now, I work as a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist and spend most of my days with men who are in the spot I used to be. Gambling is the only addiction that offers hope. That is what makes it hard to stop. Peer support is one of the few things that breaks through that hope with something stronger. That is why I am on the Cope Compass Council.

Peer supportGambling recoveryRehab-exit handoff

Joining us

Confirmed council members, bios in progress.

  • Katherine

    Outreach Advisor

    Partner outreachCommunity building

What we build toward

The Council's charter.

Mission

Cope Compass exists to make real-time recovery support reachable for anyone, anywhere, at the moment they need it. The Advisory Council exists to make sure that support is clinically sound, grounded in lived experience, and worthy of the people who rely on it.

Vision

A recovery system that meets people in the moment, not only in the appointment. The Council guides Cope Compass toward that future: recovery treated as connective infrastructure, not a single app.

Principles

  • Lived experience and clinical expertise carry equal weight. Both are required to get recovery right.
  • Recovery support should never shame. Nothing resets, and progress is never erased.
  • We build for the person in crisis at 2am, not for the demo. If it does not serve them, it does not ship.
  • Honesty over polish. The Council tells us when we are wrong, and we change course.

How the Council works

Council membership means your name, your credentials, and your perspective help shape Cope Compass, and they tell people in recovery that real experts stand behind it. Members give occasional guidance on a launch, a feature, or a question of clinical accuracy, when they have the time and the interest.

What it does not mean: there is no quota, and no obligation to review everything we ship. Formal review work, when we need it, is a separate paid arrangement. The Council is here to steer and to vouch, not to do unpaid clinical labor.

Know someone who belongs on the Council?

Clinicians, gambling-recovery specialists, and people with deep lived experience of this work. Send us a note. We are building the Council deliberately, not in a rush.

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