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Working with Challenging Behaviors: Turning Behavioral Incidents into Transformational Experiences

We shouldn't be surprised when people recovering from substance use and/or mental health challenges struggle to function well in community living. Their past traumatic experiences and broken trust have resulted in them adopting destructive coping strategies. Residence operators should not only expect challenging behavior, but should develop a wide repertoire of trauma-informed responses that help residents develop essential life skills. We must move beyond removing residents for "bad behavior".

Stress and Burnout

Ever feel stressed? How do you react to high-pressure situations? Is burnout a threat to your well-being and productivity? The truth is that we're all prone to stress, pressure, and burnout. Understanding what they are and how they work helps us create a better, more satisfying lifestyle. This course will help you define stress, pressure, and burnout, recognizing the unique ways they show up for you. You’ll be able to evaluate your work and lifestyle to identify opportunities for healing. You'll also get valuable strategies to manage the effects of stress, pressure, and burnout. By the end of the course, you’ll have a clearer understanding of how these forces affect you—and what you can do about it.

Community Organizing and Engagement

A framework for engaging your community and its stakeholders across the whole life of a recovery housing project, from inception to completion. Covers how to identify key partners, why existing local substance use disorder task forces make valuable early allies, and how steady relationships and proactive planning protect a project's success.

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.

Job Interview Best Practices

In this module, you’ll discover best practices for job interviews. First, you’ll develop your Interview Day Checklist. Checklists reduce a lot of the stress and help you to focus on the interview itself. Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview outlines the five steps you can take to build your own Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview.

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.

Director's Role and Title

Guidance for a recovery housing board choosing the right leadership title. Explains how titles such as Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer, or Program Director each signal a different level of experience, responsibility, and salary, and how to set expectations that match the pay you have in mind.

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.

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.

Co-Occurring Disorders and Recovery Support

Geoff Wilson, President of the Kentucky Association of Addiction Professionals, discusses the challenges faced by those with a Co-Occurring Disorder and what recovery home and recovery program operators can do to help residents and clients with a COD.

Understanding and Responding to NIMBYism in Communities

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) is a characterization of opposition by residents in a rural or urban community, to proposed developments in their local area. These developments could include the location of new recovery housing. This course can assist you with recognizing and navigating situations where NIMBY occurs.