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Project Best Practices: Sponsors and Stakeholders

The best practices of project management can help you plan out and define your project. This course covers sponsors and stakeholders. Each is a key component of successful projects. Project Management - Sponsor Engagement: The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training will focus on understanding a Sponsor's role and utilizing an Engagement agreement to establish the proper expectations and communication with your Sponsor. It will outline how a Sponsor and a Project Manager are different, how they should work together and how to use a simple Sponsor Engagement Signoff sheet to establish expectations early in the process and avoid issues. Project Management - Identify and Analyze Stakeholders: The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training provides easy steps and the tools needed to help identify and analyze your stakeholders to get the Key stakeholders for your Rural Recovery Housing project communication.

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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.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

Managing Food Costs

Practical strategies for controlling food costs, which after personnel and utilities can be a recovery home's largest operating expense. Addresses rising grocery prices and vendor delivery fees, the staffing constraints that make cost control difficult, and why good nutrition directly supports residents' physical recovery.

Board of Directors Handbook for Rural Recovery Houses

Complete with templates, this customizable Board of Directors handbook for rural recovery houses — board authority and legal duties, officer roles and terms, governance policies, the Executive Director's role, and ready-to-adapt conflict of interest and confidentiality policies.

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.

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.

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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.

Beginning Your Grant Seeking Journey: 2022 FGI Summit

Allen Smart of PhilanthropywoRx has more than 20 years of grantmaking experience in the rural south, is a national advocate for better philanthropic practice, and is a consultant to funders, funder groups, national, and state-based non-profits on rural funding. His presentation covers the following topics in rural funding: Resourcing • Starting up relationships • Funders thinking about rural and how torespond• Hot topics in rural from a funder perspective. This course is based on information shared during the Fletcher Group Rural Center of Excellence's Building Rural Recovery Ecosystems Summit which took place in June 2022. The goal of the Summit was to enhance skills and knowledge in recovery ecosystem development by participating in a national conversation on improving the quality, capacity, and accessibility of substance use disorder rural recovery housing, recovery support services, and the broader ecosystems of the criminal justice system, and community collaboration.

Addressing Inappropriate Behavior

A ten-step framework for addressing inappropriate behavior in a peer-led social model recovery home, where the environment itself is the service. Covers setting clear community standards, teaching residents to address the behavior rather than the person, natural and graduated consequences, repairing harm, and re-entry plans — accountability aimed at growth rather than punishment.

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Value of Recovery Through Community Based Recovery Supports

Recovery advocate Tara Hyde explains how Community-Based Recovery Support Services—recovery community centers, recovery housing, and peer support—can increase one-year sustained remissions rates by as much as 60 percent while reducing total cost per successful outcome by as much as 55 percent.

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.