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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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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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Quick Response Teams

Quick Response Teams (QRTs) — interdisciplinary community programs that reach people within 48 to 72 hours of a non-fatal overdose, the window when they are most receptive to help. Covers who makes up a team, QRT goals and activities, the outcomes reported so far, and the program's history since its 2014 start. Includes practical steps: how to find a local QRT, build the relationship, agree referral guidelines, and lean on the team when someone has a return to use.

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Get to Know You

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.

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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.

NAADAC CE
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Work Challenges & Essential Skills

Working with others, whether colleagues or customers, comes with its own set of challenges and skills. This course looks at common workplace challenges and then four essential customer service skills that will make you a superstar. 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. Four Essential Customer Service Skills - A handful of customer service skills can make the difference between an average experience and one that leaves your customers feeling completely delighted. Do you know what those skills are? Do you have them? In this course, we'll uncover four essential customer service skills and give you many tips, food for thought, and resources for developing these skills.

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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.

NAADAC CE
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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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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.

NAADAC CE
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Justice and Correctional Initiatives

This course is about Person-Centered Approaches when working with individuals with Substance Use Disorder or SUD. This is a foundational course to other courses on this topic. In this course, we will discuss Stigma and Discrimination, Labeling Theory and why Language Matters, Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs), and how this impacts the Legal and Correctional Systems and a Person-Centered Approach. The course will be divided into articles, handouts, videos, and presentations. As you go through this course at your own pace, take the time to consider how this content can impact the work that you do and how you go about helping your clients.

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Setting Goals that Actually Work

In this course, you’ll learn why the process of setting your goals is just as important as choosing targets that truly matter. You’ll also learn how to set goals that accurately reflect your purpose and find tools you can use to track your progress. In the end, you’ll walk away with a stronger sense of alignment between your vision and the daily habits that will help you conquer your goals in the long run.

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Gratitude for Life

Dr. Joel Wong is the chairman of Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology and Director of UI's Gratitude Interventions and Practices Lab. Dedicated to building communities of grateful people around the world, Dr. Wong shares best practices and the proven benefits of gratitude in three short courses: 1. Principles of an Abundance Mindset 2. Principles of a Gift Mindset 3. Principle of Contentment

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Opening a Bank Account in 7 Easy Steps

Microlearning course on the steps to open a bank account. Serves as an introduction to financial literacy and money management concepts for residents in rural recovery housing who may have limited experience in working with banks.

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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.