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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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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.

Course/Training

Project Management: Identify & Analyze Your Stakeholders

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

Course/Training

CPR: Hands Only

This is a high level course designed to support recovery house operators, staff, and clients to understand how to respond to minor injuries that may occur in the home.

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.

Video

Virtual Networking

The ability to network within virtual spaces has become a valuable skill to master over the past year. These skills will be important beyond the pandemic as many employers predict work-from-home careers and virtual networking will remain as part of a new normal. This short course provides an introductory overview of virtual networking.

Publications & Papers

Establishing Quality and Outcome Measures for Recovery Housing: A Tiered Approach Supporting Service Evolution

Proposes a tiered matrix of quality and outcome measures that recovery housing providers can adopt at their own capacity level, filling the gap left by clinical SUD quality measures that do not fit recovery support services.

Podcast

Episode 3: Policy, Peers, and the Connective Tissue of Recovery

Tony White sits down with Dona Dmitrovic, Acting Director of the Office of Recovery at SAMHSA, to explore how policy, services, and lived experience can work together to support long-term recovery. This episode looks at SAMHSA’s Four Dimensions of Recovery — Health, Home, Purpose, and Community — and how communities can build the “connective tissue” people need: no-wrong-door access, warm handoffs, full-circle follow-through, quality recovery housing, and peer support. Listen in for a conversation about turning recovery from an individual journey into a community-supported recovery pathway.

Video

Clarifying Language and Acronyms: Substance Use Disorders and Medications

Acronyms can create confusion, especially when there are many acronyms surrounding a particular topic. Key terms in recovery and treatment are no exception. This overview emphasizes the importance of clear language in addressing these complex issues.

Publications & Papers

Assessing waivered and non-waivered physician barriers to treating patients with substance use disorders: a cross-sectional Kentucky pilot

A Kentucky pilot survey comparing waivered and non-waivered physicians on the barriers they face to prescribing medication for opioid use disorder.

Podcast

Episode 1: Health, Housing and Hope: A Conversation with Governor Ernie Fletcher

Tony White sits down with Governor Ernie Fletcher, physician, former Governor of Kentucky, and co-founder of the Fletcher Group, to explore the origins of FGI and the first dimension of recovery: Health. Together, they discuss how the medical model of treatment and the peer-led Social Experiential Model of Recovery can work in tandem within a true recovery ecosystem that connects treatment, recovery housing, lived experience, and community support.

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.

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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.