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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
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PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow
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Newsletter

June 2026: A New Financial Model for Non-Profits

Seed Sower CEO Jay Phillips on braided funding — why grants alone leave a non-profit precarious, how a revenue-positive transport service pays for recovery housing, and data-driven storytelling.

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September 2026: Understand and Overcome Recovery House Financial Challenges

Explore the financial and housing challenges affecting the sustainability of recovery residences and the research identifying strategies to address them. Highlighting barriers to stable recovery housing, the importance of diversified funding, strong business practices, and how research is being translated into practical tools and approaches to strengthen long-term recovery housing sustainability.

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October 2025: Everything You Need to Know about Deflection, Including Challenges Unique to Rural Areas

Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities (TASC)’s Jac Charlier, Guy Farina, and Sydney Goggins on deflection — the six pathways that route people to treatment instead of arrest, the rural obstacles, and how to start a program.

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September 2023: What Can Recovery Allies Do?

Recovery Allies author Alison Webb on recovery capital in its personal, social and community forms, and the actions allies can take — marking Recovery Month and the 60 million Americans in recovery.

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December 2023: Why Confidentiality Is Essential and How to Protect It

Why confidentiality is a sacred duty in recovery, the legal and ethical obligations it carries, and the particular difficulty of privacy in rural communities where everyone knows everyone.

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April 2026: Recovery Is Always a “We Thing,” Never a “Me Thing”

Tara Moseley Hyde on Community-Based Recovery Support Services — why the medical and social models work best together rather than in competition, and recovery as a “we thing.”

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January 2026: Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Overcome Geographic and Financial Barriers to Recovery

OpenRecovery’s Zachary Gidwitz and Alex Weber on what AI in recovery is and is not, how to get it right, and an introduction to Kai, a therapist-led, AI-supported mental health platform — including how readers can shape it.

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October 2024: Learn How to Share Your Story and Improve Your Public Speaking

Learn how to share your story, and improve your public speaking.

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February 2026: Latest Withdrawal Management Tools and Techniques

Three non-pharmaceutical withdrawal management tools — AcuDetox acupuncture, biofeedback training and neuro-electrode treatment — and why none of them stands alone.

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August 2026: The Science of Recovery: How the Brain Heals

Explore the science of recovery and how substance use affects the brain’s reward, stress, decision-making, learning, and memory systems. This newsletter examines the brain’s healing process through different stages of recovery and offers practical strategies recovery housing providers can use to create safe, supportive environments that promote healing, regulation, and long-term recovery.

Success Story

An Act of Faith

“We were overwhelmed,” says Fay Russom, Executive Director of Hardin County Jesus Cares, a Savannah, Tennessee nonprofit dedicated to helping rural families in crisis. “We’ve always had a heart for people who are homeless and had been wanting to provide recovery housing for years, but none of us had any experience.

Success Story

Better Foundation

New Foundations, a nonprofit transitional housing provider with 11 facilities serving rural communities in Ohio and Kentucky, provides fully furnished move-in-ready sober living options for those in recovery. Known for its size, level of support, and emphasis on accountability, New Foundations nevertheless needed help.

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