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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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Recovery House Supervision Best Practices

This module covers two primary aspects of supervising recovery housing - the community INSIDE of the house and the community OUTSIDE of the house. Recovery House Management - Creating a Supportive Internal Community & Recovery House Management - Understanding & Responding to NIMBYism in Communities.

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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.

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Coordinating Care: Treatment Plans

This course will review how a substance use disorder recovery house can implement treatment plans for their residents.

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A New Path Forward: Harnessing the Benefits of Relational Employment for Those in Recovery

Rob and Diane Perez of DV8 Kitchen in Lexington, KY, partner with the Fletcher Group RCOE to bring you this eye-opening course on transforming your business model from transactional to relational. Rob shares his journey as a business owner with all the rules, to a business owner who breaks barriers to develop healthy employer and employee relationships, which he credits for making DV8 Kitchen a national top 40 restaurant on Yelp.

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The Secrets to Skilled Delegation

When you think of a leader in the rural recovery housing community, who do you imagine? Chances are, it’s someone who knows the difference between doing and leading. Great leaders strategically guide the team’s work—they don’t do the team’s work. That’s where delegation comes in. Delegation is assigning responsibility for specific activities to others. In this course, you’ll learn why you should delegate, how to do it, how to select the right people for the job, and how to get out of the way so they can complete their assignments.

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Project Management: Project Closing

This course focuses on closing out your project. We will review documenting and handling the last steps before you have completed the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. This includes the basic elements critical but often forgotten when implementing a Rural Recovery Housing Project. We also cover how to gain acceptance to support the transition, the completion of reporting, and final budgetary information requirements, any storage or final documentation, as well as giving appreciation to the team at the time of release.

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5 Day Challenge to Improve Your Mental Health

The importance of mental health can’t be overstated, given that it impacts every part of our lives. Even so, we often let caring for our mental health take a back seat to other priorities. We ignore our needs until we’re burned out, isolated, or struggling with illness. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a perfect time to prioritize your mental health by committing to a 5-day challenge. Each day explores a different facet of mental health and contains a simple exercise for putting it into practice. You can improve your emotional well-being in less than 15 minutes a day. Missing a day or doing them out of order is no problem–these lessons will always be here for your reference. Come back to them when you’re ready. Also, check out the resources at the end of the course to continue your mental health journey. Note: This course is for educational purposes only and should not be substituted for professional medical advice. Users should consult a medical professional seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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Implementing Medication Assisted Recovery

In this course, we'll cover changes in the illicit drug supply and how these changes are impacting trends in overdoses and deaths. We'll discuss how to create a plan to support safe use of life-saving addiction medications in recovery homes, minimizing the risk of diversion. We also outline strategies to help you evaluate options for working with different kinds of healthcare providers that can work with you to streamline your residents' access to addiction treatment medications. We'll introduce a resource you can use to evaluate your best options in providing mutual support curricula and peer support groups that don't stigmatize medications for addiction. We'll help you to create policies and procedures to safely and manage FDA-approved addiction medications on-site, with special attention to the Department of Justice guidance on the Americans with Disabilities Act that assures access to medications for treating opioid use disorder. Finally, we'll review compliance concerns with this act and the Fair Housing Act, sharing case scenarios and additional information.

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Becoming a Peer Leader in a Recovery Residence

Recovery residence house managers and others wishing to become “peer leaders” (PL) will be able to listen to interviews of six successful PLs and hear how they approached the role, the challenges they faced, and what their experiences have taught them. Anyone interested in learning more about this process of becoming a PL and their vital role in recovery residence operations will enjoy this program. At the conclusion of this program, participants will understand the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to function in the role, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved.

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Recovery Ecosystems for Communities

Recovery Ecosystems are paramount to removing barriers to success for people with Substance Use Disorder (SUD), especially for those living in rural communities.

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Project Management: Communication

This training will focus on using the results of your Stakeholder Analysis to establish the proper communication with your stakeholder. It will cover the utilization of simple communication tracking tools and outline how to use a project organization chart to your advantage.

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Project Best Practices: Communication & Tracking

Tracking your project work and communicating project results are important to engage your stakeholders and maintain or increase momentum for your project. These two microcourses will help you manage your projects. Project Logs - The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training will focus on understanding what logs are required to successfully manage your project after kickoff. Project Logs are key artifacts that help you track decisions, changes, actions, risks, issues, lessons learned, and communications. Note: These items are key to managing the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. Stakeholder Communication - The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training will focus on using the results of your Stakeholder Analysis to establish the proper communication with your stakeholder. It will cover the utilization of simple communication tracking tools and outline how to use a project organization chart to your advantage.

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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.