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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.




Naloxone Training by PAR
Everyone should know how to properly administer Naloxone medication, how it works, and where to access the medication. This course provides the basic tools to educate you in these areas.
NAADAC CEWork Challenges & Essential Skills
Working with others, whether colleagues or customers, comes with its own set of challenges and skills. This course looks at common workplace challenges and then four essential customer service skills that will make you a superstar. Common Workplace Challenges - Even the best workplaces face challenges. In this course, you'll learn how to navigate some of the most common—from dealing with difficult people to overcoming your own mistakes. Four Essential Customer Service Skills - A handful of customer service skills can make the difference between an average experience and one that leaves your customers feeling completely delighted. Do you know what those skills are? Do you have them? In this course, we'll uncover four essential customer service skills and give you many tips, food for thought, and resources for developing these skills.
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.

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.
NAADAC CESet 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.

Integrated Recovery Residences and Supports into the ASAM Criteria
Welcome to the Fletcher Group's course on how the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has, for the first time, integrated recovery services like mutual-support and peer support groups, recovery housing , and employment training into comprehensive treatment planning. The Learning Objectives for this course are: Introduce the important changes about recovery supports and recovery residences in ASAM: Provide information about the evidence and conceptual frameworks used to fully integrated recovery support services into ASAM treatment planning, and; Learn about ASAM’s recommended assessment tools in recovery capital.

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.
NAADAC CERecovery Residences - How We Know They Work
Many in the recovery field feel intuitively that recovery residences, structured sober living, and similar programs aid a person’s recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Unfortunately, there has been scant research to measure outcomes and explore the questions around recovery residences: What evidence do we have that supports our ideas that recovery housing helps recovery? What types of programs have the most success? The least? What does the data tell us that may help develop evidence-based programs? Dr. Corey Vilsaint, a community research psychologist fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a principal investigator at the Recovery Research Institute and Center for Addiction Medicine, answers these questions and more in this course.

First Aid for Common Household Injuries
This course will provide recovery house operators, staff, and clients with the base knowledge to respond to minor common household injuries that may occur.

Recovery House Management: Creating a Supportive Internal Community
When a recovery residence employs the Peer-led, Peer-Driven Social Model, it provides its residents with an environment designed to empower them to make decisions, to be part of a recovery community, to be comfortable and safe, and to learn and grow.
NAADAC CEIntermediate 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.










