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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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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
R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates
How to Raise Funds
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Project Management: Sponsor Engagement

This training focuses on understanding a Sponsor’s role and utilizing an Engagement agreement to establish the proper expectations and communication with your Sponsor. It outlines how a Sponsor and a Project Manager are different, how they should work together, and how to use a simple Sponsor Engagement Signoff sheet to establish expectations early in the process and avoid issues. Objectives: Focuses on helping you as a Project Manager, particularly in a rural community, ensure that a Sponsor understands the following: Sponsor Defined, Sponsor Role, PM Collaboration, Engagement Guidelines, and finally when the data or reporting for your portfolio is provided.

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How to Create a Strategic Plan

A methodology and resource list for building a strategic plan for your recovery home, whether the goal is serving more residents or diversifying your funding. Explains how a plan aligns goals with mission, keeps everyone working toward the same end, and creates a lasting framework for decision-making — including how to do it where rural resources are thin.

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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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Insurance for Recovery Housing

Purchasing insurance for your recovery house is not the same as you would purchase for your own home. There are important considerations to make and discuss with your board and insurance agent. And not all insurance agents are skilled in recovery housing insurance. You may have to look to other insurance companies to get appropriate coverage. This course provides you with an overview of the different items you should investigate as you begin shopping for insurance for the house.

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Pregnant and Parenting Complexities in Recovery Housing

In this course, we will briefly touch on the prevalence of pregnant individuals with a substance use disorder; housing considerations for individuals that are pregnant, postpartum, and or parenting; recovery house partnerships; early recovery and parenting; medication to support recovery; infant withdrawal, needs, and other considerations; and provide a few national resources for deeper education and support.

NAADAC CE
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Beginning Your Grant Seeking Journey: 2022 FGI Summit

Allen Smart of PhilanthropywoRx has more than 20 years of grantmaking experience in the rural south, is a national advocate for better philanthropic practice, and is a consultant to funders, funder groups, national, and state-based non-profits on rural funding. His presentation covers the following topics in rural funding: Resourcing • Starting up relationships • Funders thinking about rural and how torespond• Hot topics in rural from a funder perspective. This course is based on information shared during the Fletcher Group Rural Center of Excellence's Building Rural Recovery Ecosystems Summit which took place in June 2022. The goal of the Summit was to enhance skills and knowledge in recovery ecosystem development by participating in a national conversation on improving the quality, capacity, and accessibility of substance use disorder rural recovery housing, recovery support services, and the broader ecosystems of the criminal justice system, and community collaboration.

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Project Management: Communication

This training will focus on using the results of your Stakeholder Analysis to establish the proper communication with your stakeholder. It will cover the utilization of simple communication tracking tools and outline how to use a project organization chart to your advantage.

NAADAC CE
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Foundations of Self Care

A four-part NAADAC course on caring for yourself while you care for others. How to Practice Self Care: an interactive course on what self care is, why it matters, and practical ways to support yourself. Be Here Now Yoga: a guided yoga practice for grounding yourself in the present moment. Meditation Basics: an introduction to mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation and how to build a practice. SAMHSA 988 Crisis Line: what the 988 Crisis Lifeline is, how it works, and best practices for sharing it and other resources.

NAADAC CE
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Urine Analysis (UA) Best Practices

Recovery homes may use urine analysis for their residents centered on supporting each person's recovery journey. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urine testing is the best developed and most commonly used monitoring technique in recovery programs. Understanding Urine Analysis - Urine analysis is the best-developed and most-used monitoring technique in substance use treatment programs across the continuum of care. When used correctly and competently following best practice guidelines, it can be an effective therapeutic tool. Drug testing uses a biological sample to detect the presence or absence of a specific drug (or drugs) and drug metabolites within a specific window of time. No universal standard exists today in clinical drug testing for addiction identification, diagnosis, treatment, medication monitoring, or recovery. Urine Analysis: From a Resident Perspective - This course will explain urine analysis from the residents perspective. Providing person-first care, dignity, and respect is hugely important to your residents. This course explains how urine analysis can affect the resident.

NAADAC CE
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Project Best Practices: Sponsors and Stakeholders

The best practices of project management can help you plan out and define your project. This course covers sponsors and stakeholders. Each is a key component of successful projects. Project Management - Sponsor Engagement: 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 understanding a Sponsor's role and utilizing an Engagement agreement to establish the proper expectations and communication with your Sponsor. It will outline how a Sponsor and a Project Manager are different, how they should work together and how to use a simple Sponsor Engagement Signoff sheet to establish expectations early in the process and avoid issues. Project Management - Identify and Analyze Stakeholders: The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training provides easy steps and the tools needed to help identify and analyze your stakeholders to get the Key stakeholders for your Rural Recovery Housing project communication.

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Re-Entry Considerations for Rural Recovery Houses

This course reviews considerations that should be taken for those who will be housing individuals that are re-entering the community after incarceration.

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Preventing Medication Assisted Recovery (MAR) Related Discrimination

This training will provide information on Discrimination Policies for Recovery Housing operators. After completion, the participant will have the knowledge to confidently operate a non-discriminatory recovery house.

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