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Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies

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Trailer: Introducing Recovery Ecosystem Radio, an FGI Podcast

The trailer for Recovery Ecosystem Radio, a Fletcher Group podcast hosted by Tony White about building communities where recovery is not the exception — it is the expectation.

Assessing Technical Assistance Needs among Recovery Residence Operators in the United States

A national survey of recovery residence owners and operators on where they most need technical assistance and training.

Social Model of Recovery

Explore the Social Model of Recovery and how it creates recovery-oriented environments that promote independence, personal responsibility, and connection. This video explains how peer-led, peer-driven recovery housing uses supportive, home-like environments and lived experience to empower residents to take ownership of their recovery and build skills for long-term recovery.

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.

Addressing rural and non-rural substance use disorder stigma: Evidence from a national randomized controlled trial

Evidence from a national randomized trial (N = 2,721) on whether education about recovery housing and personal recovery stories reduce stigma differently in rural and non-rural communities.

What is the Fletcher Group and What Does It Do

Discover how Fletcher Group strengthens recovery housing and recovery ecosystems in rural communities through technical assistance, evidence-based practices, research, and connection. This overview highlights resources and support for recovery housing, including funding strategies, peer-driven services, workforce connections, community-based care, and tools that help communities build quality recovery support systems.

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.”

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.

Deflection

Learn how deflection can provide a pathway to recovery in rural communities by connecting individuals with substance use and mental health needs to treatment and community-based services instead of the criminal justice system. This video introduces the role of public safety and public health partnerships and demonstrates how deflection can work in practice.

Opening Episode: Recovery is the Expectation: Introducing Recovery Ecosystem Radio

In this opening episode, host Tony White shares part of his own recovery journey and introduces the heart of the podcast: what it takes for whole communities to become places where recovery is not the exception; it is the expectation. The episode defines a recovery ecosystem, explores Health, Home, Purpose, and Community, and highlights the role of lived experience, peer leadership, warm handoffs, recovery housing, pre-arrest deflection and diversion, reentry, and community connection in building long-term recovery. Listen in and join us as we begin the conversation about building recovery-ready communities where people do not have to recover alone.

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.