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Resilience in Recovery

Strategies for building resilience in early recovery, when learning new ways to think and act collides with stress and triggers. Covers managing your emotions, building a strong support system, recognizing your personal strengths, and using healthy coping techniques to improve the odds of long-term recovery.

The Healing Place History: How an Overnight Shelter Became a Nationwide Social Model for Recovery

Jay Davidson traces the 50+ year history of The Healing Place, the nationally recognized social model recovery program founded in Louisville, Kentucky - from a 24-bed emergency shelter in 1971 to a comprehensive recovery ecosystem serving thousands annually, its eight pillars of the social model, replication across five states and the 17 Recovery Kentucky Centers, and the critical success factors behind its evidence-based outcomes.

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.

Director's Role and Title

Guidance for a recovery housing board choosing the right leadership title. Explains how titles such as Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer, or Program Director each signal a different level of experience, responsibility, and salary, and how to set expectations that match the pay you have in mind.

Beyond the Grant: Braided Funding for Nonprofit Sustainability

James “Jay” Phillips, CEO of Seed Sower, Inc., explores practical approaches for moving nonprofits beyond grant dependency toward long-term financial sustainability. Using Seed Sower’s recovery ecosystem as a case study, Phillips demonstrates how organizations can combine grants, public reimbursements, billable services, partnerships, and program-generated revenue into a braided funding model that supports mission-critical services. Attendees learn strategies for identifying revenue opportunities, leveraging grants as startup capital rather than operating support, collecting meaningful outcome data, and building resilient, community-focused organizations that can sustain recovery housing, workforce development, transportation, and behavioral health services over time.

Implementing Medication Assisted Recovery

In this course, we'll cover changes in the illicit drug supply and how these changes are impacting trends in overdoses and deaths. We'll discuss how to create a plan to support safe use of life-saving addiction medications in recovery homes, minimizing the risk of diversion. We also outline strategies to help you evaluate options for working with different kinds of healthcare providers that can work with you to streamline your residents' access to addiction treatment medications. We'll introduce a resource you can use to evaluate your best options in providing mutual support curricula and peer support groups that don't stigmatize medications for addiction. We'll help you to create policies and procedures to safely and manage FDA-approved addiction medications on-site, with special attention to the Department of Justice guidance on the Americans with Disabilities Act that assures access to medications for treating opioid use disorder. Finally, we'll review compliance concerns with this act and the Fair Housing Act, sharing case scenarios and additional information.

Conduct a Needs Assessment

A methodology and resource list for assessing what your rural community actually needs before you develop recovery housing. Covers zoning, service availability, employment opportunities, local sources of support, and public attitudes including NIMBYism and stigma — with attention to running an assessment when resources are limited.

Co-Occurring Disorders and Recovery Support

Geoff Wilson, President of the Kentucky Association of Addiction Professionals, discusses the challenges faced by those with a Co-Occurring Disorder and what recovery home and recovery program operators can do to help residents and clients with a COD.

Resolving Conflict

At best, conflict stifles communication and productivity. At its worst, tensions escalate to aggression and bullying. That's why it's important to address conflict quickly. In this course, you'll learn common sources of discord and some typical responses to it. You'll also discover techniques to resolve conflict, address anger, and stop abusive behavior. Differences between roommates or teammates actually demonstrate a diversity of strengths and ideas. Learning to bridge contrasting perspectives with empathy and understanding are key to your productivity and effectiveness.

Addressing Inappropriate Behavior

A ten-step framework for addressing inappropriate behavior in a peer-led social model recovery home, where the environment itself is the service. Covers setting clear community standards, teaching residents to address the behavior rather than the person, natural and graduated consequences, repairing harm, and re-entry plans — accountability aimed at growth rather than punishment.

Trauma: Get It Off Your Chest, It’s An Inside Job

“Trauma," says physician and author Gabor Mate, "is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.” In this video of the Fletcher Group's 47th monthly webinar on March 5, 2026, Cecily McMillan, a former foster youth and author of the book, The Scars of the Chosen, shows us how to define and identify trauma and provide trauma-informed care to recovery home residents and other recovery program clients.