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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 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies
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PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow
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Work Challenges & Essential Skills

Working with others, whether colleagues or customers, comes with its own set of challenges and skills. This course looks at common workplace challenges and then four essential customer service skills that will make you a superstar. Common Workplace Challenges - Even the best workplaces face challenges. In this course, you'll learn how to navigate some of the most common—from dealing with difficult people to overcoming your own mistakes. Four Essential Customer Service Skills - A handful of customer service skills can make the difference between an average experience and one that leaves your customers feeling completely delighted. Do you know what those skills are? Do you have them? In this course, we'll uncover four essential customer service skills and give you many tips, food for thought, and resources for developing these skills.

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Beginning Your Grant Seeking Journey: 2022 FGI Summit

Allen Smart of PhilanthropywoRx has more than 20 years of grantmaking experience in the rural south, is a national advocate for better philanthropic practice, and is a consultant to funders, funder groups, national, and state-based non-profits on rural funding. His presentation covers the following topics in rural funding: Resourcing • Starting up relationships • Funders thinking about rural and how torespond• Hot topics in rural from a funder perspective. 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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Escape Anxiety with a 5-Minute Grounding Practice

Grounding is a technique used to help reorient your thinking and emotions to the present. Grounding can assist you with navigating your anxiety when dealing with negative or challenging emotions. This course introduces you to a five minute grounding practice exercise to help you reduce anxiety.

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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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Motivational Interviewing in Recovery Housing

Milena Stott from Fletcher Group's Rural Center of Excellence, presents Creating a Culture of Change: Motivational Interviewing in Recovery Housing. In this presentation she covers: Motivational Interviewing (MI) and how it works, how MI can support change in your recovery house, recognizing the spirit of MI and its core elements and strategies, identifying basic skills you can adopt, and know where to find more resources for continued learning. 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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Gratitude for Life

Dr. Joel Wong is the chairman of Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology and Director of UI's Gratitude Interventions and Practices Lab. Dedicated to building communities of grateful people around the world, Dr. Wong shares best practices and the proven benefits of gratitude in three short courses: 1. Principles of an Abundance Mindset 2. Principles of a Gift Mindset 3. Principle of Contentment

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Project Management: Kickoff Planning

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

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Why Evaluation Matters in Recovery Residences

This course shows the importance of collecting data for a recovery house and how it can improve your house operations. Find out why evaluation matters, what data is the most valuable to collect, and how to evaluate and use the data you secure. Learning Objective: Learners will be able to identify components of evaluation.

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Transferable Skills

When seeking employment, it's important to identify your transferable skills. These are your skills like leadership, communication, adaptability, etc., that you exhibit and bring to any role. This course helps you to identify transferable skills so you can add them to your resume or share them as part of the interview process with potential employers.

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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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Job Interview Best Practices

In this module, you’ll discover best practices for job interviews. First, you’ll develop your Interview Day Checklist. Checklists reduce a lot of the stress and help you to focus on the interview itself. Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview outlines the five steps you can take to build your own Blueprint for Nailing Your Interview.

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Recovery Residences - How We Know They Work

Many in the recovery field feel intuitively that recovery residences, structured sober living, and similar programs aid a person’s recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Unfortunately, there has been scant research to measure outcomes and explore the questions around recovery residences: What evidence do we have that supports our ideas that recovery housing helps recovery? What types of programs have the most success? The least? What does the data tell us that may help develop evidence-based programs? Dr. Corey Vilsaint, a community research psychologist fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a principal investigator at the Recovery Research Institute and Center for Addiction Medicine, answers these questions and more in this course.

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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.