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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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Episode 3: Policy, Peers, and the Connective Tissue of Recovery

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From Withdrawal to Regulation: The Brain's Timeline for Early Recovery

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Publications & Papers

Financial landscape of recovery housing in the United States

Estimates the size of the recovery housing industry from 2020 survey data: roughly $250,000 in annual revenue per house and $4.5 billion nationally, broken down by revenue source for rural and non-rural houses.

Publications & Papers

Implementing contingency management into rural recovery housing: recommendations of a professional advisory expert panel

Recommendations from a national expert panel on bringing contingency management into rural recovery houses, where dropout rates run high — covering the practical and ethical questions implementation raises.

Publications & Papers

The Business of Recovery: Understanding Operational Costs and Funding Sources in Recovery Housing in the United States

What it actually costs to run recovery housing. A national survey of 408 organizations operating 1,458 houses, estimating annual operating costs, where the money goes, and which revenue sources the industry depends on.

Publications & Papers

Engagement and retention in a motivational, discovery, and transitional track based substance use disorder recovery program: evaluation, facilitators and barriers

An evaluation of St. Matthew’s House Justin’s Place Recovery Program and its motivational, discovery and transitional tracks, testing whether completing the program is associated with retention, reduced return to use, restored family relationships and employment.

Newsletter

September 2023: What Can Recovery Allies Do?

Recovery Allies author Alison Webb on recovery capital in its personal, social and community forms, and the actions allies can take — marking Recovery Month and the 60 million Americans in recovery.

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Components of a Recovery Ecosystem

A one-page map exploring six components that build a recovery ecosystem

Newsletter

April 2026: Recovery Is Always a “We Thing,” Never a “Me Thing”

Tara Moseley Hyde on Community-Based Recovery Support Services — why the medical and social models work best together rather than in competition, and recovery as a “we thing.”

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The Peer-Led Social Model: A Recovery Ecosystem

A one-page diagram of the peer-led social model, tracing how referral sources connect people to a recovery home's supports — peer support, case management, life skills, stable housing and more — to build recovery capital.

Newsletter

April 2023: How Physical and Social Activity Aids Recovery

Profiles The Phoenix, the sober active community whose 200,000-plus members build recovery through free classes and events, and what its virtual offerings mean for rural communities.

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June 2026: A New Financial Model for Non-Profits

Seed Sower CEO Jay Phillips on braided funding — why grants alone leave a non-profit precarious, how a revenue-positive transport service pays for recovery housing, and data-driven storytelling.

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May 2026: Handle Challenging Behavior in Your Recovery Home

Carmin Long and Alan Muia on resident behavior in rural recovery homes — taming the “lizard brain,” the distinction between the person and the behavior, and a worksheet to work it through.