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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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An Introduction to Recovery Housing

These courses outline the best practices for recovery housing designed by the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and the Fletcher Group. We look at the NARR levels and Recovery Kentucky's peer-led, peer-driven social model of recovery. Recovery Kentucky - A Peer-Led, Peer-Driven, Empowerment Social Model of Recovery: This course covers the Recovery Kentucky model of recovery, a peer-led, peer-driven social model. Developed in the early 2000's and consisting of 17 facilities across the state of Kentucky, Recovery Kentucky has evidence-based outcomes showing the positive impact of recovery housing for the individual and the community. An Introduction to the NARR Levels of Recovery Housing: This course will educate and prepare professionals and recovery housing operators to properly identify the various levels of recovery housing and act on this information to better assist those seeking recovery housing, particularly in rural areas. The course will also help prospective recovery housing operators determine the types of recovery housing they wish to develop.

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Not as Complicated as You May Think: SUD 101

An accessible and relatable look at substance use disorder (SUD), how it affects individuals, families, and communities, and the challenges people may experience on the path to recovery. Through lived experience, personal stories, and real-world examples, learners will explore how SUD can impact mental, physical, and social well-being while gaining a better understanding of the misconceptions and stigma that can create additional barriers to recovery. The course emphasizes the value of education, empathy, and informed, compassionate approaches to supporting individuals with SUD and recovery.

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Overdose Response Teams

Overdose Response Teams (ORT): A Community Response - First responders are on the front line in combating the opioid epidemic. The American Medical Association reported that the United States experienced over 90,000 fatal drug overdoses in 2020. Communities are coming together to create an efficient response to counter these increasing numbers. Establishing an effective program to prevent drug overdoses require a coordinated effort between law enforcement, first responders, mental health/substance abuse providers, public health, and community partners. ORTs are a multi-agency, harm reduction response unit that delivers support and person-centered services to individuals in the community who experience a non-fatal overdose. ORTs objective is to combat overdose occurrences, save lives, and promote public safety.

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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.

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Resolving Conflict with Co-workers

Getting along with coworkers can be tricky—but not impossible. This course guides you on how to work through conflict with coworkers to achieve positive outcomes. You’ll discover why workplace conflict can actually be a good thing, how to have a difficult conversation, and how to seek help when progress is at a standstill or you’re dealing with an abusive coworker.

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3 Desk Stretches to Instantly Improve Your Day

Exercise is a great stress reducer, but what can you do if you're stuck sitting for most of the day? You stretch! This course takes you through three simple stretches you can do anytime to get instant stress relief or refreshed.

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What are you thinking? An Exploration of Thinking Styles

Everyone thinks differently. But can you identify the different ways in which people think? And how do we leverage this information to improve outcomes for communicating in personal and professional relationships? The Whole Brain® Model can help! The model is a time tested framework to decode and harness the cognitive diversity of individuals, teams, and organizations. In this course, learners will be able to: · Define the four thinking styles and what they represent · Identify people in their lives that represent each thinking style · Apply the styles to resolve an issue using the Walk Around tool

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Justice: Pre-Adjudication

In this course as well as providing a quick overview of the legal stages an individual charged with an offence will go through. We will then take a closer look at the engagement process and then look at the process as well as the opportunities to access substance use disorder interventions within misdemeanor court and felony court.

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7 Strategies to Tame Stress

Stress is inevitable, yet many of us struggle to cope effectively when we encounter stressful situations. We resort to unhealthy outlets like procrastinating or overeating—typically making our problems worse. Most of us know that managing stress in a healthy way benefits our well-being, relationships, job performance, and more. But how do we get there? In this course, you’ll learn to tame stress by first understanding the difference between healthy and unhealthy coping strategies. Then, you’ll learn seven effective techniques that can help you relieve stress and regain control.

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First Aid for Common Household Injuries

This course will provide recovery house operators, staff, and clients with the base knowledge to respond to minor common household injuries that may occur.

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Recovery House Management: Creating a Supportive Internal Community

When a recovery residence employs the Peer-led, Peer-Driven Social Model, it provides its residents with an environment designed to empower them to make decisions, to be part of a recovery community, to be comfortable and safe, and to learn and grow.

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Communication Fundamentals

In recovery housing, it is important to both staff and residents to ensure they competently use good communication. But have you ever found yourself wondering what that means—or how to demonstrate you’re a good communicator? In this course, you’ll learn how to define communication, the types of communication we use at work, how to choose the right delivery method for your message, and how to remove barriers to having it understood.

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