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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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Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies
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Deflection

Learn how deflection can provide a pathway to recovery in rural communities by connecting individuals with substance use and mental health needs to treatment and community-based services instead of the criminal justice system. This video introduces the role of public safety and public health partnerships and demonstrates how deflection can work in practice.

Publications & Papers

Psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12)

The psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12), a 12-item instrument for the sense of connection between residents that shared lived experience is meant to build.

Podcast

Episode 2: From Crime to Clinic to Community: Building Recovery Ecosystems That Work

This episode features Dr. John F. Kelly, Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Addiction Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Founder and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Recovery Research Institute. Together, we explore recovery as a long-term, community-supported process, and why strong “fluid linkages” between treatment, mutual-help, recovery housing, peer support, and community-based recovery services are essential. Dr. Kelly discusses recovery capital, the Social Model of Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve-Step Facilitation research, expanding the menu of recovery options, and how communities can help people move from crisis and system involvement toward Health, Home, Purpose, and Community. “Recovery is more than putting the fire out. It’s about helping people rebuild.”

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.

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Program, Policy and Social Support Characteristics Associated With Rural vs. Urban Recovery Housing, 2018–2020

A survey of Kentucky recovery houses comparing rural and urban programs and policies against NARR standards, including disability provisions, clinical service requirements and return-to-use policies.

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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.

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Recovery capital outcomes associated with an access to recovery program

Whether Kentucky’s Access to Recovery program built recovery capital over time, tracked across four points as participants used recovery housing, transportation support and help meeting basic needs.

Publications & Papers

Adaptable Tool for Modeling the Benefits and Costs of Substance Use Disorder Recovery Programs

A customizable economic model that lets a recovery program estimate its own costs, benefits and return on investment, accounting for operating and capital costs, location, size and success rate.

Publications & Papers

Assessing Technical Assistance Needs among Recovery Residence Operators in the United States

A national survey of recovery residence owners and operators on where they most need technical assistance and training.

Publications & Papers

Addressing rural and non-rural substance use disorder stigma: Evidence from a national randomized controlled trial

Evidence from a national randomized trial (N = 2,721) on whether education about recovery housing and personal recovery stories reduce stigma differently in rural and non-rural communities.

Publications & Papers

State-Level Support for Recovery Housing: Results from a National Collaborative Study of U.S. Single State Agencies

A national collaborative study of Single State Agencies — 48 of 51 responded — on how states support recovery housing and where it sits inside state-managed SUD service systems.

Publications & Papers

Justifying the need for a recovery-related surveillance system: Exploratory focused interviews

Focus interviews with recovery house representatives about the data they already collect at house and resident level, and what a recovery-related surveillance system would add.

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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.