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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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PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow
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Newsletter

November 2025: Understand the Financial Challenges Facing Recovery Homes and Where to Look for Help

Funding is the number one challenge recovery homes can face. Read about the blended-funding model behind Recovery Kentucky, the Economic Calculator, and additional funding sources.

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October 2024: Learn How to Share Your Story and Improve Your Public Speaking

Learn how to share your story, and improve your public speaking.

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March 2026: Identify Trauma and Provide Clients with Appropriate Trauma-Informed Care

Cecily McMillan, author of The Scars of the Chosen, on trauma as an inside job, why our hardest habits are survival strategies, and a three-part resiliency toolkit.

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September 2026: Understand and Overcome Recovery House Financial Challenges

Explore the financial and housing challenges affecting the sustainability of recovery residences and the research identifying strategies to address them. Highlighting barriers to stable recovery housing, the importance of diversified funding, strong business practices, and how research is being translated into practical tools and approaches to strengthen long-term recovery housing sustainability.

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December 2025: Pregnant and Parenting Women Can Receive the Recovery Housing and Services They Need for Long-Term Recovery

Read about PEARL and its Grace House women’s center in rural Franklin County, Virginia, which houses pregnant and postpartum women in recovery an hour’s drive from the nearest services.

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May 2026: Handle Challenging Behavior in Your Recovery Home

Carmin Long and Alan Muia on resident behavior in rural recovery homes — taming the “lizard brain,” the distinction between the person and the behavior, and a worksheet to work it through.

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December 2023: Why Confidentiality Is Essential and How to Protect It

Why confidentiality is a sacred duty in recovery, the legal and ethical obligations it carries, and the particular difficulty of privacy in rural communities where everyone knows everyone.

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July 2026: Understand How Co-Occurring Disorders May Be Affecting Your Residents and Clients

Co-occurring disorder expert Geoff Wilson on dual diagnosis — how common it is, the barriers that keep it untreated, and what works best in rural communities.

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January 2026: Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Overcome Geographic and Financial Barriers to Recovery

OpenRecovery’s Zachary Gidwitz and Alex Weber on what AI in recovery is and is not, how to get it right, and an introduction to Kai, a therapist-led, AI-supported mental health platform — including how readers can shape it.

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June 2026: A New Financial Model for Non-Profits

Seed Sower CEO Jay Phillips on braided funding — why grants alone leave a non-profit precarious, how a revenue-positive transport service pays for recovery housing, and data-driven storytelling.

Success Story

Bridging the Gap

Substance use early in life can have enormous consequences, impairing healthy development and contributing to risky behavior. But how do you know if your child is using? Pediatrician Margaret Ng may have cracked the code by applying a new evidence-based screening and intervention process developed in partnership at Coal Grove Pediatrics in Ironton, Ohio.

Success Story

STEP Steps Up

Learn how STEP, a Montana nonprofit, expanded its services to include five recovery homes and strengthened its approach to recovery housing with support from Fletcher Group. This success story highlights STEP’s growth, the development of housing for women and children, and how technical assistance, connections, and practical guidance helped the organization build services responsive to the needs of its residents and community.

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