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Value of Recovery Through Community Based Recovery Supports

Recovery advocate Tara Hyde explains how Community-Based Recovery Support Services—recovery community centers, recovery housing, and peer support—can increase one-year sustained remissions rates by as much as 60 percent while reducing total cost per successful outcome by as much as 55 percent.

Communicate in a Crisis: Helpful Tips

Running a facility or program is not all smooth sailing. Crises are inevitable And no two crises are the same. However, a detailed plan for handling them will enable your organization to respond as wisely and effectively as possible. In this course, we will cover nine lessons of Crisis Management Planning and Communication. At the end of the course, participants will be able to Assemble a crisis team Compose a crisis plan with their team Identify the stages of a crisis Choose and prepare a spokesperson Prepare and practice for crisis situations Manage the communication of a crisis clearly, and with honesty, integrity, and compassion.

Managing Food Costs

Practical strategies for controlling food costs, which after personnel and utilities can be a recovery home's largest operating expense. Addresses rising grocery prices and vendor delivery fees, the staffing constraints that make cost control difficult, and why good nutrition directly supports residents' physical recovery.

Criminal Justice Deflection Considerations

Deflection experts Guy Farina, Jac Charlier, and Sydney Goggins, all of whom work for the non-profit organization Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC), explain how deflection works and why it matters, particularly in rural communities.

Recovery Allies: Recovery Capital & Recovery Friendly Communities - 2022 FGI Summit

Alison Jones Webb, MA, MPH, shares how you can become a recovery ally, support recovery ecosystems, and be part of recovery capital development. She shares the Pillars of Recovery, shares real world examples, and provides ways groups can work. 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.

Resilience in Recovery

Strategies for building resilience in early recovery, when learning new ways to think and act collides with stress and triggers. Covers managing your emotions, building a strong support system, recognizing your personal strengths, and using healthy coping techniques to improve the odds of long-term recovery.

PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow

Learn how PAX Tools for New Beginnings uses evidence-based, trauma-informed strategies to support women in recovery and strengthen relationships with their children and families. This webinar explores practical approaches for building self-awareness, self-regulation, communication, and relationship skills that can be integrated into everyday recovery settings and carried into the home and family environment.

7 Strategies to Tame Stress

Stress is inevitable, yet many of us struggle to cope effectively when we encounter stressful situations. We resort to unhealthy outlets like procrastinating or overeating—typically making our problems worse. Most of us know that managing stress in a healthy way benefits our well-being, relationships, job performance, and more. But how do we get there? In this course, you’ll learn to tame stress by first understanding the difference between healthy and unhealthy coping strategies. Then, you’ll learn seven effective techniques that can help you relieve stress and regain control.

Medication Assisted Recovery

Guidance on implementing medication-assisted recovery in residential settings. Sets out why it matters — fentanyl's role in driving overdose deaths, and the continuing burden on rural communities where rates can match or exceed urban areas — and how recovery residences can support residents using medication.

Enhancing Recovery Housing Financial Stability & Resiliency

All recovery residences face significant funding challenges, particularly those in rural areas. Fortunately, new tools and strategies are now available to assist you, several of which are discussed in this video of the Fletcher Group’s November 6, 2025 webinar presented by Fletcher Group CEO Dave Johnson and Fletcher Group Health Economist Madison Ashworth.

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.