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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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Podcast
Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies
WebinarNAADAC CE
PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow
R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates
How to Raise Funds
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Project Management: Sponsor Engagement

This training focuses on understanding a Sponsor’s role and utilizing an Engagement agreement to establish the proper expectations and communication with your Sponsor. It outlines 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. Objectives: Focuses on helping you as a Project Manager, particularly in a rural community, ensure that a Sponsor understands the following: Sponsor Defined, Sponsor Role, PM Collaboration, Engagement Guidelines, and finally when the data or reporting for your portfolio is provided.

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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.

NAADAC CE
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Implementing Medication Assisted Recovery

In this course, we'll cover changes in the illicit drug supply and how these changes are impacting trends in overdoses and deaths. We'll discuss how to create a plan to support safe use of life-saving addiction medications in recovery homes, minimizing the risk of diversion. We also outline strategies to help you evaluate options for working with different kinds of healthcare providers that can work with you to streamline your residents' access to addiction treatment medications. We'll introduce a resource you can use to evaluate your best options in providing mutual support curricula and peer support groups that don't stigmatize medications for addiction. We'll help you to create policies and procedures to safely and manage FDA-approved addiction medications on-site, with special attention to the Department of Justice guidance on the Americans with Disabilities Act that assures access to medications for treating opioid use disorder. Finally, we'll review compliance concerns with this act and the Fair Housing Act, sharing case scenarios and additional information.

NAADAC CE
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Recovery 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.

NAADAC CE
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Intermediate Program Evaluation

This course will provide students with a detailed overview of evaluation instruments and tools. This course will consist of five modules covering resident outcomes of interest, construction and use of a data shell, simple data analysis, data visualization, and reporting. A basic knowledge of Excel is expected, but not required. The course helps recovery house owners, operators, and managers.

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Suicide Prevention in Recovery Housing and Support Services

This course, originally developed for Kentucky SUD Peer Support Specialists, explores the crucial role peers play in recognizing and responding to signs of distress among those they work with daily.

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Be Here Now

Be Here Now - Yoga/Meditation for Self Care - Yoga is a great wellness tool for self-care and can help those in recovery develop breathing skills to refocus and calm.

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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.

NAADAC CE
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Set Goals & Manage Your Time

Two shorter courses make up this course on personal effectiveness: setting goals that hold up over time, and making the most of the hours you have to reach them. 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. Time Management Essentials — How do we make the most of the time we have? Time is both precious and fleeting, and many of us feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. This course will give you core strategies to tackle that problem. First, you’ll learn the basic principles of time management, along with some symptoms that could uncover poor uses of time. Then, you’ll discover how to track and analyze your time to boost productivity. Finally, you’ll get seven tips to start managing your time more effectively.

NAADAC CE
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Project Best Practices: Communication & Tracking

Tracking your project work and communicating project results are important to engage your stakeholders and maintain or increase momentum for your project. These two microcourses will help you manage your projects. Project Logs - 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 what logs are required to successfully manage your project after kickoff. 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. Stakeholder Communication - 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 using the results of your Stakeholder Analysis to establish the proper communication with your stakeholder. It will cover the utilization of simple communication tracking tools and outline how to use a project organization chart to your advantage.

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3 Desk Stretches to Instantly Improve Your Day

Exercise is a great stress reducer, but what can you do if you're stuck sitting for most of the day? You stretch! This course takes you through three simple stretches you can do anytime to get instant stress relief or refreshed.

NAADAC CE
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An Intro to RCO's and Public Policy

Two courses in one: an introduction to Recovery Community Organizations — the types of RCOs and how to support one in your community — and a primer on the federal policy-making process for stakeholders working to build or expand recovery housing.

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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.