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Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies
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October 2025: Everything You Need to Know about Deflection, Including Challenges Unique to Rural Areas

Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities (TASC)’s Jac Charlier, Guy Farina, and Sydney Goggins on deflection — the six pathways that route people to treatment instead of arrest, the rural obstacles, and how to start a program.

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December 2024: Peer-driven Social Model of Recovery and The History of the Healing Place

The story of The Healing Place in Louisville — the peer-driven model that inspired Recovery Kentucky and then the Fletcher Group — and a tribute to its founder Jay Davidson.

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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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December 2025: Pregnant and Parenting Women Can Receive the Recovery Housing and Services They Need for Long-Term Recovery

Read about PEARL and its Grace House women’s center in rural Franklin County, Virginia, which houses pregnant and postpartum women in recovery an hour’s drive from the nearest services.

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November 2025: Understand the Financial Challenges Facing Recovery Homes and Where to Look for Help

Funding is the number one challenge recovery homes can face. Read about the blended-funding model behind Recovery Kentucky, the Economic Calculator, and additional funding sources.

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January 2026: Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Overcome Geographic and Financial Barriers to Recovery

OpenRecovery’s Zachary Gidwitz and Alex Weber on what AI in recovery is and is not, how to get it right, and an introduction to Kai, a therapist-led, AI-supported mental health platform — including how readers can shape it.

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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.

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September 2025: How to De-Escalate and Resolve Any Kind of Conflict

Conflict resolution expert Sal Corbin on why avoiding conflict carries its own cost, the skillset for handling it, and what to actually do in the moment.

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July 2026: Understand How Co-Occurring Disorders May Be Affecting Your Residents and Clients

Co-occurring disorder expert Geoff Wilson on dual diagnosis — how common it is, the barriers that keep it untreated, and what works best in rural communities.

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March 2026: Identify Trauma and Provide Clients with Appropriate Trauma-Informed Care

Cecily McMillan, author of The Scars of the Chosen, on trauma as an inside job, why our hardest habits are survival strategies, and a three-part resiliency toolkit.

Success Story

Thinking Big

Pastor Matt Johnson wanted more. He was already running a sober recovery program from his Suncrest United Methodist Church in Morgantown when he contacted Karen Coburn, the Fletcher Group's Outreach and Engagement Specialist for West Virginia. "I'm not sure she knew what she was getting into," says Johnson. "But from that moment on we've been moving at warp speed—much quicker than anyone could have expected.

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SMART in Ohio

The faith-based, privately funded Beneath The Shade women's recovery center just outside Dover, Ohio isn't the most likely setting for secular, science-driven recovery. "In the beginning we were just a bunch of church ladies praying together, with no idea how to get started," says Board Member Traci Hooper.

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