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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.




Exploring Career Goals
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.
NAADAC CETrauma Informed Care in Rural Recovery Housing
This course provides an overview of trauma-informed care is and how trauma can impact a person. By implementing trauma-informed care in your rural recovery house setting you can help residents better manage their outcomes and build recovery capital.

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.
NAADAC CEStress and Burnout
Ever feel stressed? How do you react to high-pressure situations? Is burnout a threat to your well-being and productivity? The truth is that we're all prone to stress, pressure, and burnout. Understanding what they are and how they work helps us create a better, more satisfying lifestyle. This course will help you define stress, pressure, and burnout, recognizing the unique ways they show up for you. You’ll be able to evaluate your work and lifestyle to identify opportunities for healing. You'll also get valuable strategies to manage the effects of stress, pressure, and burnout. By the end of the course, you’ll have a clearer understanding of how these forces affect you—and what you can do about it.
NAADAC CERecovery Community Organizations 101: 2022 FGI Summit
Presented by Tara Moseley Hyde, B.P.S., M.P.A.P., this course covers the definition of recovery community organization (RCO), describes the types of RCO's that support workforce and education development, and shares how you can support the startup or continuation of an RCO in your community. 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.

Introduction to Public Policy
The purpose of this training is to increase knowledge about the policy-making process at the federal level and empower interested stakeholders to engage on issues that may impact their ability to build or expand recovery housing.
NAADAC CEChanging the Recovery Workforce
Three shorter courses make up this mega course addressing the recovery workforce and how building skills from the employer and employee side changes the workplace landscape. A New Path Forward: Harnessing the Benefits of Relational Employment for Those in Recovery - Rob and Diane Perez of DV8 Kitchen in Lexington, KY, partner with the Fletcher Group RCOE to bring you this eye-opening course on transforming your business model from transactional to relational. Rob shares his journey as a business owner with all the rules, to a business owner who breaks barriers to develop healthy employer and employee relationships, which he credits for making DV8 Kitchen a national top 40 restaurant on Yelp. Transferable Skills - When seeking employment, it's important to identify your transferable skills. These are your skills like leadership, communication, adaptability, etc., that you exhibit and bring to any role. This course helps you to identify transferable skills so you can add them to your resume or share them as part of the interview process with potential employers. Virtual Networking - The ability to network within virtual spaces has become a valuable skill to master over the past year. These skills will be important beyond the pandemic as many employers predict work-from-home careers and virtual networking will remain as part of a new normal. This short course provides an introductory overview of virtual networking.
NAADAC CEAn Intro to RCO's and Public Policy
Two courses in one: an introduction to Recovery Community Organizations — the types of RCOs and how to support one in your community — and a primer on the federal policy-making process for stakeholders working to build or expand recovery housing.

Insurance for Recovery Housing
Purchasing insurance for your recovery house is not the same as you would purchase for your own home. There are important considerations to make and discuss with your board and insurance agent. And not all insurance agents are skilled in recovery housing insurance. You may have to look to other insurance companies to get appropriate coverage. This course provides you with an overview of the different items you should investigate as you begin shopping for insurance for the house.

Naloxone Training by PAR
Everyone should know how to properly administer Naloxone medication, how it works, and where to access the medication. This course provides the basic tools to educate you in these areas.

First Aid for Common Household Injuries
This course will provide recovery house operators, staff, and clients with the base knowledge to respond to minor common household injuries that may occur.










