Welcome!
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.




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.

Communication Fundamentals
In recovery housing, it is important to both staff and residents to ensure they competently use good communication. But have you ever found yourself wondering what that means—or how to demonstrate you’re a good communicator? In this course, you’ll learn how to define communication, the types of communication we use at work, how to choose the right delivery method for your message, and how to remove barriers to having it understood.
NAADAC CEJustice: Pre-Adjudication
In this course as well as providing a quick overview of the legal stages an individual charged with an offence will go through. We will then take a closer look at the engagement process and then look at the process as well as the opportunities to access substance use disorder interventions within misdemeanor court and felony court.
NAADAC CERecovery Ecosystems for Communities
Recovery Ecosystems are paramount to removing barriers to success for people with Substance Use Disorder (SUD), especially for those living in rural communities.

Escape Anxiety with a 5-Minute Grounding Practice
Grounding is a technique used to help reorient your thinking and emotions to the present. Grounding can assist you with navigating your anxiety when dealing with negative or challenging emotions. This course introduces you to a five minute grounding practice exercise to help you reduce anxiety.
NAADAC CEThe Science of Effective Listening
In this course, you'll learn strategies for improving listening skills. First, you’ll discover how our brains respond when we're engaged in conversation. You’ll then get best practices for effective listening, including creating the right environment, engaging curiosity, supporting—rather than shifting—the conversation, and embracing silence.

Recovery Kentucky - A Peer-Led, Peer-Driven, Empowerment Social Model of Recovery
This course provides a high-level overview of Recovery Kentucky’s peer-led social model. The 17 Recovery Kentucky centers located across the state were modeled after The Healing Place in Louisville and developed throughout the 2000s. For more than 15 years, third-party, evidence-based outcome studies have demonstrated the positive impact of combining long-term recovery education with stable housing to support sustained recovery while benefiting individuals and their communities.

Interview Day Checklist
Checklists reduce a lot of the stress and help you to focus on the interview itself. In this course, you’ll develop your own Interview Day Checklist.

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.

SAMHSA 988 Crisis Line
The course will help learners to understand what the 988 Crisis Lifeline is, how it works, and identify best practices for sharing information about the 988 Crisis Lifeline and other resources.

Understanding and Responding to NIMBYism in Communities
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) is a characterization of opposition by residents in a rural or urban community, to proposed developments in their local area. These developments could include the location of new recovery housing. This course can assist you with recognizing and navigating situations where NIMBY occurs.










