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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

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.

Podcast

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.

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

State-Level Support for Recovery Housing: Results from a National Collaborative Study of U.S. Single State Agencies

A national collaborative study of Single State Agencies — 48 of 51 responded — on how states support recovery housing and where it sits inside state-managed SUD service systems.

Publications & Papers

Adaptable Tool for Modeling the Benefits and Costs of Substance Use Disorder Recovery Programs

A customizable economic model that lets a recovery program estimate its own costs, benefits and return on investment, accounting for operating and capital costs, location, size and success rate.

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Financial landscape of recovery housing in the United States

Estimates the size of the recovery housing industry from 2020 survey data: roughly $250,000 in annual revenue per house and $4.5 billion nationally, broken down by revenue source for rural and non-rural houses.

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

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.

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.

Publications & Papers

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.

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The Learning Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $3.3 million, with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.