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Recovery Residences - How We Know They Work

Many in the recovery field feel intuitively that recovery residences, structured sober living, and similar programs aid a person’s recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Unfortunately, there has been scant research to measure outcomes and explore the questions around recovery residences: What evidence do we have that supports our ideas that recovery housing helps recovery? What types of programs have the most success? The least? What does the data tell us that may help develop evidence-based programs? Dr. Corey Vilsaint, a community research psychologist fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a principal investigator at the Recovery Research Institute and Center for Addiction Medicine, answers these questions and more in this course.

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Foundations for Developing Recovery Housing

Developing a recovery house can be an overwhelming venture. These courses explore different aspects to consider when you start planning recovery housing development. An Introduction to the 12-Steps as a Recovery Pathway: This course provides a brief overview of the 12-steps' history and how it is used as a recovery pathway. The course is not intended to promote any particular fellowship or recovery pathway, nor is it intended as a substitute for individual participation. Why Evaluation Matters: This course shows the importance of collecting data on a rural recovery house and how it can improve your house. Find out why evaluation matters to your rural recovery house, what data is the most valuable to collect, and how to evaluate and use the data you secure. Coordinating Care: Treatment Plans: This course will review how a rural recovery house can implement treatment plans for residents. While traditionally a part of clinical settings, rural recovery houses can benefit from establishing goals with residents based on their needs. How to Solve Funding Problems with LIHTC: Some folks want to build larger recovery housing units. If that's you, or even if it's not, you may be interested in knowing about Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). LIHTC may help your organization build a recovery house as part of your community's ecosystem. This course explains what LIHTC is and how it can be used in recovery housing development.

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Common Workplace Challenges

Even the best workplaces face challenges. In this course, you'll learn how to navigate some of the most common—from dealing with difficult people to overcoming your own mistakes.

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Recovery Kentucky - A Peer-Led, Peer-Driven, Empowerment Social Model of Recovery

This course provides a high-level overview of Recovery Kentucky’s peer-led social model. The 17 Recovery Kentucky centers located across the state were modeled after The Healing Place in Louisville and developed throughout the 2000s. For more than 15 years, third-party, evidence-based outcome studies have demonstrated the positive impact of combining long-term recovery education with stable housing to support sustained recovery while benefiting individuals and their communities.

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Justice: Pre-Adjudication

In this course as well as providing a quick overview of the legal stages an individual charged with an offence will go through. We will then take a closer look at the engagement process and then look at the process as well as the opportunities to access substance use disorder interventions within misdemeanor court and felony court.

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Preventing Medication Assisted Recovery (MAR) Related Discrimination

This training will provide information on Discrimination Policies for Recovery Housing operators. After completion, the participant will have the knowledge to confidently operate a non-discriminatory recovery house.

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Optimizing Success: Best Practices to Serve Your Recovery House's Alumni

Alumni programs create a network of current and future support for your rural recovery house. Graduates can help current residents navigate their recovery journey, including providing potential opportunities for mentoring or employment. So, it’s important for recovery house owners and operators to remain active and engaged with former residents. This course provides four best practices for building your alumni network. Action plan templates are included for download.

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Recovery House Alumni Best Practices

Optimizing Success: Best Practices to Serve Your Recovery House's Alumni - Alumni programs create a network of current and future support for your rural recovery house. Graduates can help current residents navigate their recovery journey, including providing potential opportunities for mentoring or employment. So, recovery house owners and operators need to remain active and engaged with former residents. This course provides four best practices for building your alumni network. Action plan templates are included for download by students. Finding the Balance: Your Recovery House and Alumni Support - Alumni support is a critical factor in building a healthy support network for your recovery house. You can gain valuable insights, referrals, and new opportunities by building strong and lasting connections with your alumni. By the end of this course, participants can use these best practices to build upon the action plan for their recovery house Alumni Network you began in our course Optimizing Success.

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Intermediate Program Evaluation

This course will provide students with a detailed overview of evaluation instruments and tools. This course will consist of five modules covering resident outcomes of interest, construction and use of a data shell, simple data analysis, data visualization, and reporting. A basic knowledge of Excel is expected, but not required. The course helps recovery house owners, operators, and managers.

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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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Imposter Syndrome: What It Is and How to Overcome It

Do you ever get a nagging feeling that you’re a fraud? A feeling like you don’t deserve your accomplishments, you’ll never be “good enough,” and it’s only a matter of time before people find out? That feeling, while isolating, is common. And it has a name: impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome is a type of chronic self-doubt that causes us to feel like we’re inadequate, despite evidence showing otherwise. The result is that we become our own worst enemy—selling ourselves short and hurting our workplace performance. So, what does it take to overcome impostor syndrome? In this course, you’ll learn to define impostor syndrome and determine whether it’s something you’re experiencing. Then, you’ll learn how impostor syndrome holds you back as well as six strategies to face your insecurities head-on.

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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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