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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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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
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The Basics of Managing Stress

Stress. It's an unavoidable part of life. It doesn't have to be a negative experience though if you practice ways to reduce the impact of the stress. Managing stress is a crucial component of self-care. This course takes you through the basics of managing stress and implementing them as part of a self-care program.

NAADAC CE
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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.

NAADAC CE
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An Intro to RCO's and Public Policy

Two courses in one: an introduction to Recovery Community Organizations — the types of RCOs and how to support one in your community — and a primer on the federal policy-making process for stakeholders working to build or expand recovery housing.

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Peer Support and Supervisor Boundaries

Maintaining professional boundaries can be challenging, especially when working in supportive services, such as peer recovery or recovery housing. This course begins the conversation and offers tools to help you with confidentiality, boundary setting, guidelines for self-disclosure, and organizational climates to help identify, establish, and maintain healthy boundaries in professional support work. Course Objectives: Identify Confidentiality & HIPAA compliance; Define boundaries and their benefits; Discuss Guidelines for Self Disclosure; Discuss organizational co-worker boundaries.

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Overdose Response Teams

Overdose Response Teams (ORT): A Community Response - First responders are on the front line in combating the opioid epidemic. The American Medical Association reported that the United States experienced over 90,000 fatal drug overdoses in 2020. Communities are coming together to create an efficient response to counter these increasing numbers. Establishing an effective program to prevent drug overdoses require a coordinated effort between law enforcement, first responders, mental health/substance abuse providers, public health, and community partners. ORTs are a multi-agency, harm reduction response unit that delivers support and person-centered services to individuals in the community who experience a non-fatal overdose. ORTs objective is to combat overdose occurrences, save lives, and promote public safety.

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Pregnant and Parenting Complexities in Recovery Housing

In this course, we will briefly touch on the prevalence of pregnant individuals with a substance use disorder; housing considerations for individuals that are pregnant, postpartum, and or parenting; recovery house partnerships; early recovery and parenting; medication to support recovery; infant withdrawal, needs, and other considerations; and provide a few national resources for deeper education and support.

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An Introduction to the 12-Steps as a Recovery Pathway

This course provides a brief overview of the history of the 12-steps, 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.

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3 Desk Stretches to Instantly Improve Your Day

Exercise is a great stress reducer, but what can you do if you're stuck sitting for most of the day? You stretch! This course takes you through three simple stretches you can do anytime to get instant stress relief or refreshed.

NAADAC CE
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Preparing for Your Job Search

The more you know about your personality, unique qualities, abilities, and values, the better you will be able to identify the right career path. Get to Know You outlines how you can take a deeper dive into learning what makes you uniquely you. Exploring Career Goals is all about discovering educational, training, and professional opportunities that complement your interests, passion, and goals. Defining your interests and skills helps you to determine career interests, which in turn can put you on the right path to bring your career aspirations to reality.

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Recovery House Management: Creating a Supportive Internal Community

When a recovery residence employs the Peer-led, Peer-Driven Social Model, it provides its residents with an environment designed to empower them to make decisions, to be part of a recovery community, to be comfortable and safe, and to learn and grow.

NAADAC CE
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Foundations of Self Care

A four-part NAADAC course on caring for yourself while you care for others. How to Practice Self Care: an interactive course on what self care is, why it matters, and practical ways to support yourself. Be Here Now Yoga: a guided yoga practice for grounding yourself in the present moment. Meditation Basics: an introduction to mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation and how to build a practice. SAMHSA 988 Crisis Line: what the 988 Crisis Lifeline is, how it works, and best practices for sharing it and other resources.

NAADAC CE
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Tackle Your Stress & Manage Your Mental Health

This series of microlearning courses provides you with ways to manage your stress, address your mental health and wellbeing through exercise and practice. 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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