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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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Quick Response Teams

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How to Handle NIMBYism

A methodology and checklist for responding to "Not In My Backyard" opposition. Explains what drives NIMBYism, the tactics opponents use — including portraying developers as outsiders profiting at locals' expense, which cuts especially deep in small communities — and how to respond proactively before it causes design changes, delays, or permit denials.

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Criminal Justice Deflection Considerations

Deflection experts Guy Farina, Jac Charlier, and Sydney Goggins, all of whom work for the non-profit organization Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC), explain how deflection works and why it matters, particularly in rural communities.

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CPR: Hands Only

This is a high level course designed to support recovery house operators, staff, and clients to understand how to respond to minor injuries that may occur in the home.

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How to Select a Site

A step-by-step methodology and checklist for choosing where to put a recovery residence. Explains why location so often decides whether a home succeeds or fails, and why rural sites need particular care to stay within reach of the services that make up a complete continuum of care.

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A New Path Forward: Harnessing the Benefits of Relational Employment for Those in Recovery

Rob and Diane Perez of DV8 Kitchen in Lexington, KY, partner with the Fletcher Group RCOE to bring you this eye-opening course on transforming your business model from transactional to relational. Rob shares his journey as a business owner with all the rules, to a business owner who breaks barriers to develop healthy employer and employee relationships, which he credits for making DV8 Kitchen a national top 40 restaurant on Yelp.

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Community Organizing and Engagement

A framework for engaging your community and its stakeholders across the whole life of a recovery housing project, from inception to completion. Covers how to identify key partners, why existing local substance use disorder task forces make valuable early allies, and how steady relationships and proactive planning protect a project's success.

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Project Management: Project Closing

This course focuses on closing out your project. We will review documenting and handling the last steps before you have completed the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. This includes the basic elements critical but often forgotten when implementing a Rural Recovery Housing Project. We also cover how to gain acceptance to support the transition, the completion of reporting, and final budgetary information requirements, any storage or final documentation, as well as giving appreciation to the team at the time of release.

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Quick Response Teams

Quick Response Teams (QRTs) — interdisciplinary community programs that reach people within 48 to 72 hours of a non-fatal overdose, the window when they are most receptive to help. Covers who makes up a team, QRT goals and activities, the outcomes reported so far, and the program's history since its 2014 start. Includes practical steps: how to find a local QRT, build the relationship, agree referral guidelines, and lean on the team when someone has a return to use.

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Project Management: Identify & Analyze Your Stakeholders

This course provides simple steps to help you identify and analyze your stakeholders to implement your recovery house.

NAADAC CE

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Managing Conflict & Stress

Stress and Conflict go hand-in-hand. Use this course to learn about best practices in managing both. The Basics of Managing Stress - Stress. It's an unavoidable part of life. It doesn't have to be a negative experience though if you practice ways to reduce the impact of the stress. Managing stress is a crucial component of self-care. This course takes you through the basics of managing stress and implementing them as part of a self-care program. 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. You'll also discover techniques to resolve conflict, address anger, and stop abusive behavior. Differences between roommates or teammates demonstrate a diversity of strengths and ideas. Learning to bridge contrasting perspectives with empathy and understanding is key to your productivity and effectiveness.

NAADAC CE

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Insurance and Budgeting for Recovery Housing

Two courses make up this bundle on the financial foundations of a recovery residence. Finances and Budgeting: when developing a recovery house, it is important to identify ways to sustain your operation — covers the basics of recovery house financing considerations, including capital expenses, operating expenses, stopgap funding, and ways to become sustainable. Insurance for Recovery Housing: purchasing insurance for your recovery house is not the same as you would purchase for your own home — there are important considerations to discuss with your board and insurance agent, and this course provides an overview of the different items you should investigate as you begin shopping for insurance for the house.

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Recovery Kentucky - A Peer-Led, Peer-Driven, Empowerment Social Model of Recovery

This course provides a high-level overview of Recovery Kentucky’s peer-led social model. The 17 Recovery Kentucky centers located across the state were modeled after The Healing Place in Louisville and developed throughout the 2000s. For more than 15 years, third-party, evidence-based outcome studies have demonstrated the positive impact of combining long-term recovery education with stable housing to support sustained recovery while benefiting individuals and their communities.

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