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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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Build Your Resume and Apply for Jobs

Building Your Resume: Building a great resume is made easy by following the best practices outlined in this course. Applying for a Job: Don’t get stressed out over the prospect of applying for a job. Following the best practices outlined in this course makes applying for a job easy and (mostly) stressfree!

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How to Solve your Funding Problems with LIHTC

Low Income Housing Tax Credits may help your organization build a recovery house as part of your community's ecosystem.

NAADAC CE

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Recovery House Supervision Best Practices

This module covers two primary aspects of supervising recovery housing - the community INSIDE of the house and the community OUTSIDE of the house. Recovery House Management - Creating a Supportive Internal Community & Recovery House Management - Understanding & Responding to NIMBYism in Communities.

NAADAC CE

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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.

NAADAC CE

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Project Planning: Kickoff, Analyze, Close

Kickoff Planning and Closing Your Project activities are important components to any project. Not only are they a way to celebrate the start and ending of a project, but it gives an opportunity to examine your projects for what is needed and lessons learned. Tying into these activities is an overview of how to conduct a SWOT Analysis. Kickoff Planning - The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. Project Kickoff is a key point in the project lifecycle. This is when the project team and leadership all come together to get on the same page and start the project. This training will focus on understanding the materials needed for a successful kickoff for your rural recovery housing project. Closing Your Project - The Project Management Training Series outlines the essential steps, tools, and templates to build a successful recovery housing or other projects. This training will focus on closing out your project. It will review documentation and how to handle the last steps before you have completed the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. SWOT Analysis is a strategic tool organizations use to identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and 'threats.' The tool is a way to help a rural recovery house board agree on what they do best now and develop strategies for the future. This course covers the basics of SWOT Analysis and the basics of using the tool.

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Applying for a Job

Don’t get stressed out over the prospect of applying for a job. Following the best practices outlined in this course makes applying for a job easy and (mostly) stressfree!

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Meditation Basics

Meditation Basics: Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness Meditation - Meditation is a relaxation technique that can help reduce stress and calm our minds. This course covers two types of meditation that may benefit those in recovery: Mindfulness Meditation and Loving-Kindness.

NAADAC CE

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Recovery Community Organizations 101: 2022 FGI Summit

Presented by Tara Moseley Hyde, B.P.S., M.P.A.P., this course covers the definition of recovery community organization (RCO), describes the types of RCO's that support workforce and education development, and shares how you can support the startup or continuation of an RCO in your community. 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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Interview Day Checklist

Checklists reduce a lot of the stress and help you to focus on the interview itself. In this course, you’ll develop your own Interview Day Checklist.

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How to Feel Your Feelings

Feelings can be complicated and conflicting. Learning to address your feelings intellectually and emotionally is a valuable way to reduce stress.

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Four Essential Customer Service Skills

There are a handful of customer service skills that 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 tons of tips, food for thought, and resources for developing these skills. Let's get started!

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Pregnant and Parenting Complexities in Recovery Housing

In this course, we will briefly touch on the prevalence of pregnant individuals with a substance use disorder; housing considerations for individuals that are pregnant, postpartum, and or parenting; recovery house partnerships; early recovery and parenting; medication to support recovery; infant withdrawal, needs, and other considerations; and provide a few national resources for deeper education and support.

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