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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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Project Planning: Kickoff, Analyze, Close

Kickoff Planning and Closing Your Project activities are important components to any project. Not only are they a way to celebrate the start and ending of a project, but it gives an opportunity to examine your projects for what is needed and lessons learned. Tying into these activities is an overview of how to conduct a SWOT Analysis. Kickoff Planning - The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. Project Kickoff is a key point in the project lifecycle. This is when the project team and leadership all come together to get on the same page and start the project. This training will focus on understanding the materials needed for a successful kickoff for your rural recovery housing project. Closing Your Project - The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training will focus on closing out your project. It will review documentation and how to handle the last steps before you have completed the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. SWOT Analysis is a strategic tool organizations use to identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and 'threats.' The tool is a way to help a rural recovery house board agree on what they do best now and develop strategies for the future. This course covers the basics of SWOT Analysis and the basics of using the tool.

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Job Interview Best Practices

In this module, you’ll discover best practices for job interviews. First, you’ll develop your Interview Day Checklist. Checklists reduce a lot of the stress and help you to focus on the interview itself. Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview outlines the five steps you can take to build your own Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview.

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis is a strategic tool organizations use to identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and 'threats.' The tool is a way to help a rural recovery house board agree on what they do best now and develop strategies for the future. This course covers the basics of SWOT Analysis and the basics of using the tool.

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Optimizing Success: Best Practices to Serve Your Recovery House's Alumni

Alumni programs create a network of current and future support for your rural recovery house. Graduates can help current residents navigate their recovery journey, including providing potential opportunities for mentoring or employment. So, it’s important for recovery house owners and operators to remain active and engaged with former residents. This course provides four best practices for building your alumni network. Action plan templates are included for download.

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What are you thinking? An Exploration of Thinking Styles

Everyone thinks differently. But can you identify the different ways in which people think? And how do we leverage this information to improve outcomes for communicating in personal and professional relationships? The Whole Brain® Model can help! The model is a time tested framework to decode and harness the cognitive diversity of individuals, teams, and organizations. In this course, learners will be able to: · Define the four thinking styles and what they represent · Identify people in their lives that represent each thinking style · Apply the styles to resolve an issue using the Walk Around tool

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Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview

Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview outlines the five steps you can take to build your own Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview.

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Meditation Basics

Meditation Basics: Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness Meditation - Meditation is a relaxation technique that can help reduce stress and calm our minds. This course covers two types of meditation that may benefit those in recovery: Mindfulness Meditation and Loving-Kindness.

Publications & Papers

Facts and Personal Recovery Stories to Reduce Substance Use Disorder Stigma and Increase Support for Recovery Housing: a US Randomized Study

A randomized study of five message conditions — education about recovery housing, and a personal recovery story told as identified text, anonymous text or video — measuring the effect on stigma and on support for recovery housing.

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Recovery Ecosystems

Learn how recovery ecosystems help individuals and families overcome barriers and build lasting recovery. This video explores how peer and social support, education, employment, housing, transportation, healthcare, and other community resources work together to create an environment that supports recovery while strengthening families and communities.

Podcast

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

Chief Celisa Lehew, Chief of Police for the Chapel Hill Police Department, joins Recovery Ecosystem Radio to explore how law enforcement can serve as a critical front door for recovery. The discussion focuses on community policing, deflection, pre-arrest diversion, public safety, housing recovery, and how strong partnerships can connect people to Health, Home, Purpose, and Community rather than deeper involvement in the justice system. This episode reminds us that public safety and recovery are not separate; they are connected through dignity, trust, accountability, and real pathways to long-term recovery.

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.

Video

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.

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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.