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

So You Want to Become a Peer Leader in a Recovery Residence? Recovery residence house managers and others wishing to become “peer leaders” (PL) will be able to listen to interviews of six successful PLs and hear how they approached the role, the challenges they faced, and what their experiences have taught them. Anyone interested in learning more about this process of becoming a PL and their vital role in recovery residence operations will enjoy this program. At the conclusion of this program, participants will understand the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to function in the role, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved. Recovery Residences - How We Know They Work Many in the recovery field feel intuitively that recovery residences, structured sober living, and similar programs aid a person’s recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Unfortunately, there has been scant research to measure outcomes and explore the questions around recovery residences: What evidence do we have that supports our ideas that recovery housing helps recovery? What types of programs have the most success? The least? What does the data tell us that may help develop evidence-based programs? Dr. Corey Vilsaint, a community research psychologist fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a principal investigator at the Recovery Research Institute and Center for Addiction Medicine, answers these questions and more in this course.

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Insurance and Budgeting for Recovery Housing

Two courses make up this bundle on the financial foundations of a recovery residence. Finances and Budgeting: when developing a recovery house, it is important to identify ways to sustain your operation — covers the basics of recovery house financing considerations, including capital expenses, operating expenses, stopgap funding, and ways to become sustainable. 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 discuss with your board and insurance agent, and this course provides an overview of the different items you should investigate as you begin shopping for insurance for the house.

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Changing the Recovery Workforce

Three shorter courses make up this mega course addressing the recovery workforce and how building skills from the employer and employee side changes the workplace landscape. A New Path Forward: Harnessing the Benefits of Relational Employment for Those in Recovery - Rob and Diane Perez of DV8 Kitchen in Lexington, KY, partner with the Fletcher Group RCOE to bring you this eye-opening course on transforming your business model from transactional to relational. Rob shares his journey as a business owner with all the rules, to a business owner who breaks barriers to develop healthy employer and employee relationships, which he credits for making DV8 Kitchen a national top 40 restaurant on Yelp. Transferable Skills - When seeking employment, it's important to identify your transferable skills. These are your skills like leadership, communication, adaptability, etc., that you exhibit and bring to any role. This course helps you to identify transferable skills so you can add them to your resume or share them as part of the interview process with potential employers. Virtual Networking - The ability to network within virtual spaces has become a valuable skill to master over the past year. These skills will be important beyond the pandemic as many employers predict work-from-home careers and virtual networking will remain as part of a new normal. This short course provides an introductory overview of virtual networking.

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Build Your Resume and Apply for Jobs

Building Your Resume: Building a great resume is made easy by following the best practices outlined in this course. Applying for a Job: Don’t get stressed out over the prospect of applying for a job. Following the best practices outlined in this course makes applying for a job easy and (mostly) stressfree!

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9 Simple Stress Busters You Can Do Today

Figuring out ways to reduce stress levels may seem intuitive, but a helpful reminder never hurts. This course takes you through 9 simple things you can do today to reduce stress and improve your mental and emotional wellbeing.

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Peer Support and Supervisor Boundaries

Maintaining professional boundaries can be challenging, especially when working in supportive services, such as peer recovery or recovery housing. This course begins the conversation and offers tools to help you with confidentiality, boundary setting, guidelines for self-disclosure, and organizational climates to help identify, establish, and maintain healthy boundaries in professional support work. Course Objectives: Identify Confidentiality & HIPAA compliance; Define boundaries and their benefits; Discuss Guidelines for Self Disclosure; Discuss organizational co-worker boundaries.

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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.

Publications & Papers

Adaptable Tool for Modeling the Benefits and Costs of Substance Use Disorder Recovery Programs

A customizable economic model that lets a recovery program estimate its own costs, benefits and return on investment, accounting for operating and capital costs, location, size and success rate.

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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 4: Systems, Data, and the Social-Experiential Model

Tony sits down with Dr. Brandee Izquierdo, Director of Behavioral Health at The Pew Charitable Trusts, to explore how lived experience, policy, data, and recovery housing can strengthen recovery ecosystems. Together, they discuss the Social-Experiential Model of Recovery, the role of recovery homes, support for unhoused and justice-involved individuals, and how communities can use data for improvement rather than surveillance. This conversation reminds us that recovery is more than treatment or crisis response. It is about building a full life across Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.

Publications & Papers

Psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12)

The psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12), a 12-item instrument for the sense of connection between residents that shared lived experience is meant to build.

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Virtual Networking

The ability to network within virtual spaces has become a valuable skill to master over the past year. These skills will be important beyond the pandemic as many employers predict work-from-home careers and virtual networking will remain as part of a new normal. This short course provides an introductory overview of virtual networking.

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