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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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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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Coordinating Care: Treatment Plans

This course will review how a substance use disorder recovery house can implement treatment plans for their residents.

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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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Stress and Burnout

Ever feel stressed? How do you react to high-pressure situations? Is burnout a threat to your well-being and productivity? The truth is that we're all prone to stress, pressure, and burnout. Understanding what they are and how they work helps us create a better, more satisfying lifestyle. This course will help you define stress, pressure, and burnout, recognizing the unique ways they show up for you. You’ll be able to evaluate your work and lifestyle to identify opportunities for healing. You'll also get valuable strategies to manage the effects of stress, pressure, and burnout. By the end of the course, you’ll have a clearer understanding of how these forces affect you—and what you can do about it.

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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.

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The Secrets to Skilled Delegation

When you think of a leader in the rural recovery housing community, who do you imagine? Chances are, it’s someone who knows the difference between doing and leading. Great leaders strategically guide the team’s work—they don’t do the team’s work. That’s where delegation comes in. Delegation is assigning responsibility for specific activities to others. In this course, you’ll learn why you should delegate, how to do it, how to select the right people for the job, and how to get out of the way so they can complete their assignments.

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Gratitude for Life

Dr. Joel Wong is the chairman of Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology and Director of UI's Gratitude Interventions and Practices Lab. Dedicated to building communities of grateful people around the world, Dr. Wong shares best practices and the proven benefits of gratitude in three short courses: 1. Principles of an Abundance Mindset 2. Principles of a Gift Mindset 3. Principle of Contentment

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How to Practice Self Care

An interactive course on what self care is, why it matters, and practical ways to support yourself.

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Introduction to Public Policy

The purpose of this training is to increase knowledge about the policy-making process at the federal level and empower interested stakeholders to engage on issues that may impact their ability to build or expand recovery housing.

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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.

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Preventing Medication Assisted Recovery (MAR) Related Discrimination

This training will provide information on Discrimination Policies for Recovery Housing operators. After completion, the participant will have the knowledge to confidently operate a non-discriminatory recovery house.

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Preparing for Your Job Search

The more you know about your personality, unique qualities, abilities, and values, the better you will be able to identify the right career path. Get to Know You outlines how you can take a deeper dive into learning what makes you uniquely you. Exploring Career Goals is all about discovering educational, training, and professional opportunities that complement your interests, passion, and goals. Defining your interests and skills helps you to determine career interests, which in turn can put you on the right path to bring your career aspirations to reality.

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