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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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Latest Highlights

Podcast
Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies
WebinarNAADAC CE
PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow
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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.

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.

Infographic

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.

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.

Newsletter

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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Components of a Recovery Ecosystem

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

Newsletter

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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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.

Newsletter

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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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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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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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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