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Built to Last: Financial Sustainability for Recovery Homes, with Insights on Rural Recovery Experiences

Drawing on findings from the Recovery Housing Sustainability (RHS) Research Project, this presentation examines the financial and operational challenges that shape the long-term viability of recovery residences. Presenters will introduce the Recovery Housing Sustainability Toolkit and its adapted Business Model Canvas as practical tools for financial planning and organizational decision-making, illustrating how research is being translated into real-world support for operators. The session also spotlights the distinct strengths and challenges facing rural recovery homes, offering a grounded perspective on sustainability across diverse communities.

Recovery House Alumni Best Practices

Optimizing Success: Best Practices to Serve Your Recovery House's Alumni - Alumni programs create a network of current and future support for your rural recovery house. Graduates can help current residents navigate their recovery journey, including providing potential opportunities for mentoring or employment. So, recovery house owners and operators need to remain active and engaged with former residents. This course provides four best practices for building your alumni network. Action plan templates are included for download by students. Finding the Balance: Your Recovery House and Alumni Support - Alumni support is a critical factor in building a healthy support network for your recovery house. You can gain valuable insights, referrals, and new opportunities by building strong and lasting connections with your alumni. By the end of this course, participants can use these best practices to build upon the action plan for their recovery house Alumni Network you began in our course Optimizing 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.

How to Handle NIMBYism

A methodology and checklist for responding to "Not In My Backyard" opposition. Explains what drives NIMBYism, the tactics opponents use — including portraying developers as outsiders profiting at locals' expense, which cuts especially deep in small communities — and how to respond proactively before it causes design changes, delays, or permit denials.

Integrated Recovery Residences and Supports into the ASAM Criteria

Welcome to the Fletcher Group's course on how the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has, for the first time, integrated recovery services like mutual-support and peer support groups, recovery housing , and employment training into comprehensive treatment planning. The Learning Objectives for this course are: Introduce the important changes about recovery supports and recovery residences in ASAM: Provide information about the evidence and conceptual frameworks used to fully integrated recovery support services into ASAM treatment planning, and; Learn about ASAM’s recommended assessment tools in recovery capital.

Recovery Housing & SUD Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women

In this monthly Fletcher Group webinar from December 4 of 2025, Kat Heredia, the Community Recovery Coordinator at Piedmont Community Services in Martinsville, Virginia and Kirsty David, the Recovery Residence Manager of Piedmont's Grace House in Franklin County describe how they provide not only housing but a wide range of essential wrap-around services including pregnant and postpartum care, case management, employment training, and quality child care all while mothers stay with their children and avoid foster care.

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.

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.

From Withdrawal to Regulation: The Brain's Timeline for Early Recovery

Amy Jeppesen explores the neurobiology of recovery, reframing challenging early-recovery behaviors as neurobiological responses rather than character failures - the four brain systems impacted by addiction, the four phases of recovery from acute withdrawal through early stabilization, dopamine and cortisol dynamics, and practical recovery housing strategies built on structure, co-regulation, and scaffolding support.

Communication in a Crisis

Practical guidance on building a crisis communication plan before you need one. Walks through the questions your plan must answer — who speaks for the organization, who issues the official statement, who directs staff and residents — using situations recovery houses actually face, from NIMBY flare-ups and fires to misinformation in the local press.

An Introduction to NARR Levels of Recovery Housing

The National Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR) defines four levels of recovery housing, with each providing varying levels of support and structure. These levels are not a rigid step-down continuum, but rather they meet the needs of individuals as they move through their recovery journey and support them as their circumstances change. This course provides an overview of the levels to help new owners and operators decide the support they wish to provide to residents. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to: Define each Level of Recovery Residences; Recognize the primary differences between the Levels of Recovery Residences; Identify the Level for their new or existing recovery residence.