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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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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.

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.”

Publications & Papers

Justifying the need for a recovery-related surveillance system: Exploratory focused interviews

Focus interviews with recovery house representatives about the data they already collect at house and resident level, and what a recovery-related surveillance system would add.

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.

Publications & Papers

Program, Policy and Social Support Characteristics Associated With Rural vs. Urban Recovery Housing, 2018–2020

A survey of Kentucky recovery houses comparing rural and urban programs and policies against NARR standards, including disability provisions, clinical service requirements and return-to-use policies.

Publications & Papers

Identification of Retention in Oxford Houses and Other Types of Recovery Housing: A Scoping Review

A scoping review across five databases of what is known about how long residents stay in Oxford Houses and other recovery housing, and how retention is defined and measured in the literature.

Publications & Papers

Implementing contingency management into rural recovery housing: recommendations of a professional advisory expert panel

Recommendations from a national expert panel on bringing contingency management into rural recovery houses, where dropout rates run high — covering the practical and ethical questions implementation raises.

Publications & Papers

The Business of Recovery: Understanding Operational Costs and Funding Sources in Recovery Housing in the United States

What it actually costs to run recovery housing. A national survey of 408 organizations operating 1,458 houses, estimating annual operating costs, where the money goes, and which revenue sources the industry depends on.

Publications & Papers

Psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12)

The psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12), a 12-item instrument for the sense of connection between residents that shared lived experience is meant to build.

Publications & Papers

Facts and Personal Recovery Stories to Reduce Substance Use Disorder Stigma and Increase Support for Recovery Housing: a US Randomized Study

A randomized study of five message conditions — education about recovery housing, and a personal recovery story told as identified text, anonymous text or video — measuring the effect on stigma and on support for recovery housing.

Publications & Papers

Perceived agency and paternalism: Increasing support for people with substance use disorder

An experiment testing how portraying people in recovery as having high or low agency changes what donors give — and whether they route that money to recovery houses or directly to individuals.

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