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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.

Program, Policy and Social Support Characteristics Associated With Rural vs. Urban Recovery Housing, 2018–2020

A survey of Kentucky recovery houses comparing rural and urban programs and policies against NARR standards, including disability provisions, clinical service requirements and return-to-use policies.

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.

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.”

Assessing waivered and non-waivered physician barriers to treating patients with substance use disorders: a cross-sectional Kentucky pilot

A Kentucky pilot survey comparing waivered and non-waivered physicians on the barriers they face to prescribing medication for opioid use disorder.

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.

Episode 1: Health, Housing and Hope: A Conversation with Governor Ernie Fletcher

Tony White sits down with Governor Ernie Fletcher, physician, former Governor of Kentucky, and co-founder of the Fletcher Group, to explore the origins of FGI and the first dimension of recovery: Health. Together, they discuss how the medical model of treatment and the peer-led Social Experiential Model of Recovery can work in tandem within a true recovery ecosystem that connects treatment, recovery housing, lived experience, and community support.

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.

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.

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.

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.