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Your one-stop, no-cost library for building stronger recovery housing and support programs — courses, guides, webinars, podcasts, NAADAC CE opportunities, research, and more.

Whether you’re opening your first recovery home, leading an established program, working as a peer or recovery support provider, or a community partner, there’s something here for you.

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Podcast

Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies

WebinarNAADAC CE

PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

How to Raise Funds

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Course/Training

Time Management Essentials

How do we make the most of the time we have? Time is both precious and fleeting, and many of us feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. This course will give you core strategies to tackle that problem. First, you’ll learn the basic principles of time management, along with some symptoms that could uncover poor uses of time. Then, you’ll discover how to track and analyze your time to boost productivity. Finally, you’ll get seven tips to start managing your time more effectively.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

How to Raise Funds

Learn how to develop an effective fundraising plan for a recovery house based on your organization’s needs, resources, and capacity. This guide covers setting fundraising goals, evaluating your donor base, selecting and budgeting for fundraising activities, engaging supporters, and building lasting donor relationships, with examples and resources to help put your plan into action.

NAADAC CE

Webinar

The Healing Place History: How an Overnight Shelter Became a Nationwide Social Model for Recovery

Jay Davidson traces the 50+ year history of The Healing Place, the nationally recognized social model recovery program founded in Louisville, Kentucky - from a 24-bed emergency shelter in 1971 to a comprehensive recovery ecosystem serving thousands annually, its eight pillars of the social model, replication across five states and the 17 Recovery Kentucky Centers, and the critical success factors behind its evidence-based outcomes.

Learning Brief

Medication Assisted Recovery

Guidance on implementing medication-assisted recovery in residential settings. Sets out why it matters — fentanyl's role in driving overdose deaths, and the continuing burden on rural communities where rates can match or exceed urban areas — and how recovery residences can support residents using medication.

NAADAC CE

Course/Training

The Science of Effective Listening

In this course, you'll learn strategies for improving listening skills. First, you’ll discover how our brains respond when we're engaged in conversation. You’ll then get best practices for effective listening, including creating the right environment, engaging curiosity, supporting—rather than shifting—the conversation, and embracing silence.

NAADAC CE

Webinar

Trauma: Get It Off Your Chest, It’s An Inside Job

“Trauma," says physician and author Gabor Mate, "is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.” In this video of the Fletcher Group's 47th monthly webinar on March 5, 2026, Cecily McMillan, a former foster youth and author of the book, The Scars of the Chosen, shows us how to define and identify trauma and provide trauma-informed care to recovery home residents and other recovery program clients.

Learning Brief

Managing Food Costs

Practical strategies for controlling food costs, which after personnel and utilities can be a recovery home's largest operating expense. Addresses rising grocery prices and vendor delivery fees, the staffing constraints that make cost control difficult, and why good nutrition directly supports residents' physical recovery.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

Build Recovery Housing

A guide to establishing a local working group that can initiate and oversee the development of recovery housing and services for your rural community. Explains the National Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR) and its four levels of housing, and lays out the path from first meeting to operating residence.

Course/Training

Project Management: Identify & Analyze Your Stakeholders

This course provides simple steps to help you identify and analyze your stakeholders to implement your recovery house.

NAADAC CE

Webinar

De-Escalation & Conflict Transformation

In this monthly Fletcher Group webinar from September 4 of 2025, Conflict resolution expert Sal Corbin describes the latest and most effective de-escalation techniques that can enable you to transform any kind of conflict—whether at work or at home—into something healthy and mutually rewarding.

Learning Brief

Quick Response Teams

Quick Response Teams (QRTs) — interdisciplinary community programs that reach people within 48 to 72 hours of a non-fatal overdose, the window when they are most receptive to help. Covers who makes up a team, QRT goals and activities, the outcomes reported so far, and the program's history since its 2014 start. Includes practical steps: how to find a local QRT, build the relationship, agree referral guidelines, and lean on the team when someone has a return to use.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

Recovery House Checklists

Prepare a recovery residence for opening with practical checklists covering the essential elements of a safe, functional, and welcoming home. This guide addresses recovery house structure and operations, furnishings, emergency equipment, technology, and consumable supplies to help operators assess needs, plan purchases, develop budgets, and create a recovery-oriented living environment.

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