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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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Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies
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PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow
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5 Day Challenge to Improve Your Mental Health

The importance of mental health can’t be overstated, given that it impacts every part of our lives. Even so, we often let caring for our mental health take a back seat to other priorities. We ignore our needs until we’re burned out, isolated, or struggling with illness. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a perfect time to prioritize your mental health by committing to a 5-day challenge. Each day explores a different facet of mental health and contains a simple exercise for putting it into practice. You can improve your emotional well-being in less than 15 minutes a day. Missing a day or doing them out of order is no problem–these lessons will always be here for your reference. Come back to them when you’re ready. Also, check out the resources at the end of the course to continue your mental health journey. Note: This course is for educational purposes only and should not be substituted for professional medical advice. Users should consult a medical professional seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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Resolving Conflict

At best, conflict stifles communication and productivity. At its worst, tensions escalate to aggression and bullying. That's why it's important to address conflict quickly. In this course, you'll learn common sources of discord and some typical responses to it. You'll also discover techniques to resolve conflict, address anger, and stop abusive behavior. Differences between roommates or teammates actually demonstrate a diversity of strengths and ideas. Learning to bridge contrasting perspectives with empathy and understanding are key to your productivity and effectiveness.

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Becoming 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.

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Recovery House Alumni Best Practices

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, recovery house owners and operators need 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 by students. Finding the Balance: Your Recovery House and Alumni Support - Alumni support is a critical factor in building a healthy support network for your recovery house. You can gain valuable insights, referrals, and new opportunities by building strong and lasting connections with your alumni. By the end of this course, participants can use these best practices to build upon the action plan for their recovery house Alumni Network you began in our course Optimizing Success.

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Project Management: Kickoff Planning

This course provides simple steps to help you identify and analyze your stakeholders to implement your recovery house.

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Justice and Correctional Initiatives

This course is about Person-Centered Approaches when working with individuals with Substance Use Disorder or SUD. This is a foundational course to other courses on this topic. In this course, we will discuss Stigma and Discrimination, Labeling Theory and why Language Matters, Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs), and how this impacts the Legal and Correctional Systems and a Person-Centered Approach. The course will be divided into articles, handouts, videos, and presentations. As you go through this course at your own pace, take the time to consider how this content can impact the work that you do and how you go about helping your clients.

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Setting Goals that Actually Work

In this course, you’ll learn why the process of setting your goals is just as important as choosing targets that truly matter. You’ll also learn how to set goals that accurately reflect your purpose and find tools you can use to track your progress. In the end, you’ll walk away with a stronger sense of alignment between your vision and the daily habits that will help you conquer your goals in the long run.

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Project Management: Project Logs

This training focuses on understanding what logs are required to manage your project after kickoff successfully. Project Logs are key artifacts that help you track decisions, changes, actions, risks, issues, lessons learned, and communications. Note: These items are key to managing the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. Specifically, the timing, content, and value, as well as the purpose of each of the items listed.

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SMART Recovery - An Overview

SMART was created for people seeking a self-empowering way to overcome addictive problems. What has emerged is an accessible method of recovery, one grounded in science and proven by more than a quarter-century of experience teaching practical tools that encourage lasting change. SMART is a powerful recovery community that includes passionate volunteers who recovered with SMART who are driven to help others. Peers and professionals working together fuse science and experience to help people build healthy and balanced lives.

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Understanding HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 in Recovery Residences

Created in March of 2025, this course discusses breaches of confidentiality in a recovery residence can lead to stress, anxiety, and a sense of betrayal, which may trigger a return to use. Maintaining confidentiality helps create a supportive and secure environment conducive to long-term recovery. Protecting confidentiality ensures a safe, supportive, and legally compliant environment where individuals can focus on their recovery without fear of exposure or judgment. Learning Objectives: Be introduced to HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 and the possible applicability of these two federal laws to recovery residences; Understand the importance of HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 and their impact on confidentiality in recovery housing

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An Introduction to NARR Levels of Recovery Housing

The National Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR) defines four levels of recovery housing, with each providing varying levels of support and structure. These levels are not a rigid step-down continuum, but rather they meet the needs of individuals as they move through their recovery journey and support them as their circumstances change. This course provides an overview of the levels to help new owners and operators decide the support they wish to provide to residents. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to: Define each Level of Recovery Residences; Recognize the primary differences between the Levels of Recovery Residences; Identify the Level for their new or existing recovery residence.

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Project Management: Project Closing

This course focuses on closing out your project. We will review documenting and handling the last steps before you have completed the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. This includes the basic elements critical but often forgotten when implementing a Rural Recovery Housing Project. We also cover how to gain acceptance to support the transition, the completion of reporting, and final budgetary information requirements, any storage or final documentation, as well as giving appreciation to the team at the time of release.

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The Learning Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $3.3 million, with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.