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Episode 3: Policy, Peers, and the Connective Tissue of Recovery

Tony White sits down with Dona Dmitrovic, Acting Director of the Office of Recovery at SAMHSA, to explore how policy, services, and lived experience can work together to support long-term recovery. This episode looks at SAMHSA’s Four Dimensions of Recovery — Health, Home, Purpose, and Community — and how communities can build the “connective tissue” people need: no-wrong-door access, warm handoffs, full-circle follow-through, quality recovery housing, and peer support. Listen in for a conversation about turning recovery from an individual journey into a community-supported recovery pathway.

Publications & Papers

Sex Trafficking Among Recovering People in Rural Areas

A whitepaper on the overlap between sex trafficking and substance use disorder, and what recovery support organizations can do about it. Explains how traffickers exploit dependency and why people in recovery are prime targets and remain at risk of re-exploitation. Sets out the red flags to watch for, then turns practical: staff and volunteer training, tips for a trauma-informed conversation with a survivor, policies and visitation procedures for a recovery residence, how to educate residents without labeling them, and where to turn.

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Deflection

Learn how deflection can provide a pathway to recovery in rural communities by connecting individuals with substance use and mental health needs to treatment and community-based services instead of the criminal justice system. This video introduces the role of public safety and public health partnerships and demonstrates how deflection can work in practice.

Podcast

Opening Episode: Recovery is the Expectation: Introducing Recovery Ecosystem Radio

In this opening episode, host Tony White shares part of his own recovery journey and introduces the heart of the podcast: what it takes for whole communities to become places where recovery is not the exception; it is the expectation. The episode defines a recovery ecosystem, explores Health, Home, Purpose, and Community, and highlights the role of lived experience, peer leadership, warm handoffs, recovery housing, pre-arrest deflection and diversion, reentry, and community connection in building long-term recovery. Listen in and join us as we begin the conversation about building recovery-ready communities where people do not have to recover alone.

Publications & Papers

Engagement and retention in a motivational, discovery, and transitional track based substance use disorder recovery program: evaluation, facilitators and barriers

An evaluation of St. Matthew’s House Justin’s Place Recovery Program and its motivational, discovery and transitional tracks, testing whether completing the program is associated with retention, reduced return to use, restored family relationships and employment.

Podcast

Episode 2: From Crime to Clinic to Community: Building Recovery Ecosystems That Work

This episode features Dr. John F. Kelly, Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Addiction Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Founder and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Recovery Research Institute. Together, we explore recovery as a long-term, community-supported process, and why strong “fluid linkages” between treatment, mutual-help, recovery housing, peer support, and community-based recovery services are essential. Dr. Kelly discusses recovery capital, the Social Model of Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve-Step Facilitation research, expanding the menu of recovery options, and how communities can help people move from crisis and system involvement toward Health, Home, Purpose, and Community. “Recovery is more than putting the fire out. It’s about helping people rebuild.”

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Clarifying Language and Acronyms: Substance Use Disorders and Medications

Acronyms can create confusion, especially when there are many acronyms surrounding a particular topic. Key terms in recovery and treatment are no exception. This overview emphasizes the importance of clear language in addressing these complex issues.

Publications & Papers

Adaptable Tool for Modeling the Benefits and Costs of Substance Use Disorder Recovery Programs

A customizable economic model that lets a recovery program estimate its own costs, benefits and return on investment, accounting for operating and capital costs, location, size and success rate.

Podcast

Episode 1: Health, Housing and Hope: A Conversation with Governor Ernie Fletcher

Tony White sits down with Governor Ernie Fletcher, physician, former Governor of Kentucky, and co-founder of the Fletcher Group, to explore the origins of FGI and the first dimension of recovery: Health. Together, they discuss how the medical model of treatment and the peer-led Social Experiential Model of Recovery can work in tandem within a true recovery ecosystem that connects treatment, recovery housing, lived experience, and community support.

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What is the Fletcher Group and What Does It Do

Discover how Fletcher Group strengthens recovery housing and recovery ecosystems in rural communities through technical assistance, evidence-based practices, research, and connection. This overview highlights resources and support for recovery housing, including funding strategies, peer-driven services, workforce connections, community-based care, and tools that help communities build quality recovery support systems.

Publications & Papers

Financial landscape of recovery housing in the United States

Estimates the size of the recovery housing industry from 2020 survey data: roughly $250,000 in annual revenue per house and $4.5 billion nationally, broken down by revenue source for rural and non-rural houses.

Podcast

Episode 4: Systems, Data, and the Social-Experiential Model

Tony sits down with Dr. Brandee Izquierdo, Director of Behavioral Health at The Pew Charitable Trusts, to explore how lived experience, policy, data, and recovery housing can strengthen recovery ecosystems. Together, they discuss the Social-Experiential Model of Recovery, the role of recovery homes, support for unhoused and justice-involved individuals, and how communities can use data for improvement rather than surveillance. This conversation reminds us that recovery is more than treatment or crisis response. It is about building a full life across Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.

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