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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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Course/Training

SAMHSA 988 Crisis Line

The course will help learners to understand what the 988 Crisis Lifeline is, how it works, and identify best practices for sharing information about the 988 Crisis Lifeline and other resources.

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.

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.

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

Why Evaluation Matters in Recovery Residences

This course shows the importance of collecting data for a recovery house and how it can improve your house operations. Find out why evaluation matters, what data is the most valuable to collect, and how to evaluate and use the data you secure. Learning Objective: Learners will be able to identify components of evaluation.

Learning Brief

How to Select a Site

A step-by-step methodology and checklist for choosing where to put a recovery residence. Explains why location so often decides whether a home succeeds or fails, and why rural sites need particular care to stay within reach of the services that make up a complete continuum of care.

NAADAC CE
Webinar

Beyond the Grant: Braided Funding for Nonprofit Sustainability

James “Jay” Phillips, CEO of Seed Sower, Inc., explores practical approaches for moving nonprofits beyond grant dependency toward long-term financial sustainability. Using Seed Sower’s recovery ecosystem as a case study, Phillips demonstrates how organizations can combine grants, public reimbursements, billable services, partnerships, and program-generated revenue into a braided funding model that supports mission-critical services. Attendees learn strategies for identifying revenue opportunities, leveraging grants as startup capital rather than operating support, collecting meaningful outcome data, and building resilient, community-focused organizations that can sustain recovery housing, workforce development, transportation, and behavioral health services over time.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

Board of Directors Handbook for Rural Recovery Houses

Complete with templates, this customizable Board of Directors handbook for rural recovery houses — board authority and legal duties, officer roles and terms, governance policies, the Executive Director's role, and ready-to-adapt conflict of interest and confidentiality policies.

Course/Training

Insurance for Recovery Housing

Purchasing insurance for your recovery house is not the same as you would purchase for your own home. There are important considerations to make and discuss with your board and insurance agent. And not all insurance agents are skilled in recovery housing insurance. You may have to look to other insurance companies to get appropriate coverage. This course provides you with an overview of the different items you should investigate as you begin shopping for insurance for the house.

Learning Brief

Low Income Housing Tax Credits

How to use Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) to fund construction or renovation of larger residential recovery facilities. Explains how the IRS allocates credits to state housing finance agencies, how developers compete for them through each state's Qualified Allocation Plan, and what kind of organization is positioned to use them.

NAADAC CE
Webinar

Enhancing Recovery Housing Financial Stability & Resiliency

All recovery residences face significant funding challenges, particularly those in rural areas. Fortunately, new tools and strategies are now available to assist you, several of which are discussed in this video of the Fletcher Group’s November 6, 2025 webinar presented by Fletcher Group CEO Dave Johnson and Fletcher Group Health Economist Madison Ashworth.

NAADAC CE
Course/Training

Motivational Interviewing in Recovery Housing

Milena Stott from Fletcher Group's Rural Center of Excellence, presents Creating a Culture of Change: Motivational Interviewing in Recovery Housing. In this presentation she covers: Motivational Interviewing (MI) and how it works, how MI can support change in your recovery house, recognizing the spirit of MI and its core elements and strategies, identifying basic skills you can adopt, and know where to find more resources for continued learning. This course is based on information shared during the Fletcher Group Rural Center of Excellence's Building Rural Recovery Ecosystems Summit which took place in June 2022. The goal of the Summit was to enhance skills and knowledge in recovery ecosystem development by participating in a national conversation on improving the quality, capacity, and accessibility of substance use disorder rural recovery housing, recovery support services, and the broader ecosystems of the criminal justice system, and community collaboration.

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IIElevenLabs
PAR — People Advocating Recovery
MARR — Michigan Association of Recovery Resources
Ohio Recovery Housing Colorado
SCARR — South Carolina Alliance for Recovery Residences
Marshall University
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MADE180 Digital Solutions
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The Learning Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $3.3 million, with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.