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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 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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Optimizing Success: Best Practices to Serve Your Recovery House's Alumni

Alumni programs create a network of current and future support for your rural recovery house. Graduates can help current residents navigate their recovery journey, including providing potential opportunities for mentoring or employment. So, it’s important for recovery house owners and operators to remain active and engaged with former residents. This course provides four best practices for building your alumni network. Action plan templates are included for download.

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SAMHSA 988 Crisis Line

The course will help learners to understand what the 988 Crisis Lifeline is, how it works, and identify best practices for sharing information about the 988 Crisis Lifeline and other resources.

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Cultural Humility in a Recovery Environment

Recognizing and practicing of cultural humility can transform your recovery house. The course examines how your emotional and cultural intelligence serves the development of cultural humility.

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Trauma Informed Care in Rural Recovery Housing

This course provides an overview of trauma-informed care is and how trauma can impact a person. By implementing trauma-informed care in your rural recovery house setting you can help residents better manage their outcomes and build recovery capital.

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Exploring Career Goals

Exploring Career Goals is all about discovering educational, training, and professional opportunities that complement your interests, passion, and goals. Defining your interests and skills helps you to determine career interests, which in turn can put you on the right path to bring your career aspirations to reality.

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9 Simple Stress Busters You Can Do Today

Figuring out ways to reduce stress levels may seem intuitive, but a helpful reminder never hurts. This course takes you through 9 simple things you can do today to reduce stress and improve your mental and emotional wellbeing.

NAADAC CE
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Recovery Allies: Recovery Capital & Recovery Friendly Communities - 2022 FGI Summit

Alison Jones Webb, MA, MPH, shares how you can become a recovery ally, support recovery ecosystems, and be part of recovery capital development. She shares the Pillars of Recovery, shares real world examples, and provides ways groups can work. This course is based on information shared during the Fletcher Group Rural Center of Excellence's Building Rural Recovery Ecosystems Summit which took place in June 2022. The goal of the Summit was to enhance skills and knowledge in recovery ecosystem development by participating in a national conversation on improving the quality, capacity, and accessibility of substance use disorder rural recovery housing, recovery support services, and the broader ecosystems of the criminal justice system, and community collaboration.

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Finding the Balance: Your Recovery House and Alumni Support

Alumni support is a critical factor in building a healthy support network for your recovery house. You can gain valuable insights, referrals, and new opportunities by building strong and lasting connections with your alumni. By the end of this course, participants can use these best practices to build upon the action plan for their recovery house Alumni Network you began in our course Optimizing Success.

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Project Management: Project Logs

This training focuses on understanding what logs are required to manage your project after kickoff successfully. Project Logs are key artifacts that help you track decisions, changes, actions, risks, issues, lessons learned, and communications. Note: These items are key to managing the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. Specifically, the timing, content, and value, as well as the purpose of each of the items listed.

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Tackle Your Stress & Manage Your Mental Health

This series of microlearning courses provides you with ways to manage your stress, address your mental health and wellbeing through exercise and practice. Note: This course is for educational purposes only and should not be substituted for professional medical advice. Users should consult a medical professional seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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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 make and discuss with your board and insurance agent. And not all insurance agents are skilled in recovery housing insurance. You may have to look to other insurance companies to get appropriate coverage. This course provides you with an overview of the different items you should investigate as you begin shopping for insurance for the house.

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Urine Analysis (UA) Best Practices

Recovery homes may use urine analysis for their residents centered on supporting each person's recovery journey. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urine testing is the best developed and most commonly used monitoring technique in recovery programs. Understanding Urine Analysis - Urine analysis is the best-developed and most-used monitoring technique in substance use treatment programs across the continuum of care. When used correctly and competently following best practice guidelines, it can be an effective therapeutic tool. Drug testing uses a biological sample to detect the presence or absence of a specific drug (or drugs) and drug metabolites within a specific window of time. No universal standard exists today in clinical drug testing for addiction identification, diagnosis, treatment, medication monitoring, or recovery. Urine Analysis: From a Resident Perspective - This course will explain urine analysis from the residents perspective. Providing person-first care, dignity, and respect is hugely important to your residents. This course explains how urine analysis can affect the resident.

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PAR — People Advocating Recovery
MARR — Michigan Association of Recovery Resources
Ohio Recovery Housing Colorado
SCARR — South Carolina Alliance for Recovery Residences
Marshall University
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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.