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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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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.

Course/Training

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.

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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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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.

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Opening a Bank Account in 7 Easy Steps

Microlearning course on the steps to open a bank account. Serves as an introduction to financial literacy and money management concepts for residents in rural recovery housing who may have limited experience in working with banks.

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SWOT Analysis

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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An Intro to RCO's and Public Policy

Two courses in one: an introduction to Recovery Community Organizations — the types of RCOs and how to support one in your community — and a primer on the federal policy-making process for stakeholders working to build or expand recovery housing.

Video

Recovery Ecosystems

Learn how recovery ecosystems help individuals and families overcome barriers and build lasting recovery. This video explores how peer and social support, education, employment, housing, transportation, healthcare, and other community resources work together to create an environment that supports recovery while strengthening families and communities.

Publications & Papers

Adaptable Tool for Modeling the Benefits and Costs of Substance Use Disorder Recovery Programs

A customizable economic model that lets a recovery program estimate its own costs, benefits and return on investment, accounting for operating and capital costs, location, size and success rate.

Podcast

Trailer: Introducing Recovery Ecosystem Radio, an FGI Podcast

The trailer for Recovery Ecosystem Radio, a Fletcher Group podcast hosted by Tony White about building communities where recovery is not the exception — it is the expectation.

Publications & Papers

Justifying the need for a recovery-related surveillance system: Exploratory focused interviews

Focus interviews with recovery house representatives about the data they already collect at house and resident level, and what a recovery-related surveillance system would add.

Podcast

Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies

Chief Celisa Lehew, Chief of Police for the Chapel Hill Police Department, joins Recovery Ecosystem Radio to explore how law enforcement can serve as a critical front door for recovery. The discussion focuses on community policing, deflection, pre-arrest diversion, public safety, housing recovery, and how strong partnerships can connect people to Health, Home, Purpose, and Community rather than deeper involvement in the justice system. This episode reminds us that public safety and recovery are not separate; they are connected through dignity, trust, accountability, and real pathways to long-term recovery.

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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.