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What is the Fletcher Group and What Does It Do

Discover how Fletcher Group strengthens recovery housing and recovery ecosystems in rural communities through technical assistance, evidence-based practices, research, and connection. This overview highlights resources and support for recovery housing, including funding strategies, peer-driven services, workforce connections, community-based care, and tools that help communities build quality recovery support systems.

Financial landscape of recovery housing in the United States

Estimates the size of the recovery housing industry from 2020 survey data: roughly $250,000 in annual revenue per house and $4.5 billion nationally, broken down by revenue source for rural and non-rural houses.

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.

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.

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.

State-Level Support for Recovery Housing: Results from a National Collaborative Study of U.S. Single State Agencies

A national collaborative study of Single State Agencies — 48 of 51 responded — on how states support recovery housing and where it sits inside state-managed SUD service systems.

Clarifying Language and Acronyms: Substance Use Disorders and Medications

Acronyms can create confusion, especially when there are many acronyms surrounding a particular topic. Key terms in recovery and treatment are no exception. This overview emphasizes the importance of clear language in addressing these complex issues.

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.

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.