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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 4: Systems, Data, and the Social-Experiential Model

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Foundations for Developing Recovery Housing

Developing a recovery house can be an overwhelming venture. These courses explore different aspects to consider when you start planning recovery housing development. An Introduction to the 12-Steps as a Recovery Pathway: This course provides a brief overview of the 12-steps' history and how it is used as a recovery pathway. The course is not intended to promote any particular fellowship or recovery pathway, nor is it intended as a substitute for individual participation. Why Evaluation Matters: This course shows the importance of collecting data on a rural recovery house and how it can improve your house. Find out why evaluation matters to your rural recovery house, what data is the most valuable to collect, and how to evaluate and use the data you secure. Coordinating Care: Treatment Plans: This course will review how a rural recovery house can implement treatment plans for residents. While traditionally a part of clinical settings, rural recovery houses can benefit from establishing goals with residents based on their needs. How to Solve Funding Problems with LIHTC: Some folks want to build larger recovery housing units. If that's you, or even if it's not, you may be interested in knowing about Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). LIHTC may help your organization build a recovery house as part of your community's ecosystem. This course explains what LIHTC is and how it can be used in recovery housing development.

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Managing Food Costs

Practical strategies for controlling food costs, which after personnel and utilities can be a recovery home's largest operating expense. Addresses rising grocery prices and vendor delivery fees, the staffing constraints that make cost control difficult, and why good nutrition directly supports residents' physical recovery.

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Webinar

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.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

Recovery House Checklists

Prepare a recovery residence for opening with practical checklists covering the essential elements of a safe, functional, and welcoming home. This guide addresses recovery house structure and operations, furnishings, emergency equipment, technology, and consumable supplies to help operators assess needs, plan purchases, develop budgets, and create a recovery-oriented living environment.

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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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Webinar

Trauma: Get It Off Your Chest, It’s An Inside Job

“Trauma," says physician and author Gabor Mate, "is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.” In this video of the Fletcher Group's 47th monthly webinar on March 5, 2026, Cecily McMillan, a former foster youth and author of the book, The Scars of the Chosen, shows us how to define and identify trauma and provide trauma-informed care to recovery home residents and other recovery program clients.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

Build Recovery Housing

A guide to establishing a local working group that can initiate and oversee the development of recovery housing and services for your rural community. Explains the National Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR) and its four levels of housing, and lays out the path from first meeting to operating residence.

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Resilience in Recovery

Strategies for building resilience in early recovery, when learning new ways to think and act collides with stress and triggers. Covers managing your emotions, building a strong support system, recognizing your personal strengths, and using healthy coping techniques to improve the odds of long-term recovery.

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Get to Know You

The more you know about your personality, unique qualities, abilities, and values, the better you will be able to identify the right career path. Get to Know You outlines how you can take a deeper dive into learning what makes you uniquely you.

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Communication in a Crisis

Practical guidance on building a crisis communication plan before you need one. Walks through the questions your plan must answer — who speaks for the organization, who issues the official statement, who directs staff and residents — using situations recovery houses actually face, from NIMBY flare-ups and fires to misinformation in the local press.

NAADAC CE

Webinar

PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow

Learn how PAX Tools for New Beginnings uses evidence-based, trauma-informed strategies to support women in recovery and strengthen relationships with their children and families. This webinar explores practical approaches for building self-awareness, self-regulation, communication, and relationship skills that can be integrated into everyday recovery settings and carried into the home and family environment.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

Board of Directors Handbook for Rural Recovery Houses

Complete with templates, this customizable Board of Directors handbook for rural recovery houses — board authority and legal duties, officer roles and terms, governance policies, the Executive Director's role, and ready-to-adapt conflict of interest and confidentiality policies.

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