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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
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PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow
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Publications & Papers

Establishing Quality and Outcome Measures for Recovery Housing: A Tiered Approach Supporting Service Evolution

Proposes a tiered matrix of quality and outcome measures that recovery housing providers can adopt at their own capacity level, filling the gap left by clinical SUD quality measures that do not fit recovery support services.

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.

Newsletter

April 2023: How Physical and Social Activity Aids Recovery

Profiles The Phoenix, the sober active community whose 200,000-plus members build recovery through free classes and events, and what its virtual offerings mean for rural communities.

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Components of a Recovery Ecosystem

A one-page map exploring six components that build a recovery ecosystem

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February 2026: Latest Withdrawal Management Tools and Techniques

Three non-pharmaceutical withdrawal management tools — AcuDetox acupuncture, biofeedback training and neuro-electrode treatment — and why none of them stands alone.

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The Peer-Led Social Model: A Recovery Ecosystem

A one-page diagram of the peer-led social model, tracing how referral sources connect people to a recovery home's supports — peer support, case management, life skills, stable housing and more — to build recovery capital.

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September 2023: What Can Recovery Allies Do?

Recovery Allies author Alison Webb on recovery capital in its personal, social and community forms, and the actions allies can take — marking Recovery Month and the 60 million Americans in recovery.

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August 2026: The Science of Recovery: How the Brain Heals

Explore the science of recovery and how substance use affects the brain’s reward, stress, decision-making, learning, and memory systems. This newsletter examines the brain’s healing process through different stages of recovery and offers practical strategies recovery housing providers can use to create safe, supportive environments that promote healing, regulation, and long-term recovery.

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April 2026: Recovery Is Always a “We Thing,” Never a “Me Thing”

Tara Moseley Hyde on Community-Based Recovery Support Services — why the medical and social models work best together rather than in competition, and recovery as a “we thing.”

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October 2025: Everything You Need to Know about Deflection, Including Challenges Unique to Rural Areas

Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities (TASC)’s Jac Charlier, Guy Farina, and Sydney Goggins on deflection — the six pathways that route people to treatment instead of arrest, the rural obstacles, and how to start a program.

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September 2025: How to De-Escalate and Resolve Any Kind of Conflict

Conflict resolution expert Sal Corbin on why avoiding conflict carries its own cost, the skillset for handling it, and what to actually do in the moment.

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December 2024: Peer-driven Social Model of Recovery and The History of the Healing Place

The story of The Healing Place in Louisville — the peer-driven model that inspired Recovery Kentucky and then the Fletcher Group — and a tribute to its founder Jay Davidson.

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