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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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Episode 2: From Crime to Clinic to Community: Building Recovery Ecosystems That Work

This episode features Dr. John F. Kelly, Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Addiction Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Founder and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Recovery Research Institute. Together, we explore recovery as a long-term, community-supported process, and why strong “fluid linkages” between treatment, mutual-help, recovery housing, peer support, and community-based recovery services are essential. Dr. Kelly discusses recovery capital, the Social Model of Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve-Step Facilitation research, expanding the menu of recovery options, and how communities can help people move from crisis and system involvement toward Health, Home, Purpose, and Community. “Recovery is more than putting the fire out. It’s about helping people rebuild.”

Publications & Papers

Program, Policy and Social Support Characteristics Associated With Rural vs. Urban Recovery Housing, 2018–2020

A survey of Kentucky recovery houses comparing rural and urban programs and policies against NARR standards, including disability provisions, clinical service requirements and return-to-use policies.

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Opening Episode: Recovery is the Expectation: Introducing Recovery Ecosystem Radio

In this opening episode, host Tony White shares part of his own recovery journey and introduces the heart of the podcast: what it takes for whole communities to become places where recovery is not the exception; it is the expectation. The episode defines a recovery ecosystem, explores Health, Home, Purpose, and Community, and highlights the role of lived experience, peer leadership, warm handoffs, recovery housing, pre-arrest deflection and diversion, reentry, and community connection in building long-term recovery. Listen in and join us as we begin the conversation about building recovery-ready communities where people do not have to recover alone.

Publications & Papers

Sex Trafficking Among Recovering People in Rural Areas

A whitepaper on the overlap between sex trafficking and substance use disorder, and what recovery support organizations can do about it. Explains how traffickers exploit dependency and why people in recovery are prime targets and remain at risk of re-exploitation. Sets out the red flags to watch for, then turns practical: staff and volunteer training, tips for a trauma-informed conversation with a survivor, policies and visitation procedures for a recovery residence, how to educate residents without labeling them, and where to turn.

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Perceived agency and paternalism: Increasing support for people with substance use disorder

An experiment testing how portraying people in recovery as having high or low agency changes what donors give — and whether they route that money to recovery houses or directly to individuals.

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Addressing rural and non-rural substance use disorder stigma: Evidence from a national randomized controlled trial

Evidence from a national randomized trial (N = 2,721) on whether education about recovery housing and personal recovery stories reduce stigma differently in rural and non-rural communities.

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State-Level Support for Recovery Housing: Results from a National Collaborative Study of U.S. Single State Agencies

A national collaborative study of Single State Agencies — 48 of 51 responded — on how states support recovery housing and where it sits inside state-managed SUD service systems.

Publications & Papers

The Business of Recovery: Understanding Operational Costs and Funding Sources in Recovery Housing in the United States

What it actually costs to run recovery housing. A national survey of 408 organizations operating 1,458 houses, estimating annual operating costs, where the money goes, and which revenue sources the industry depends on.

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Engagement and retention in a motivational, discovery, and transitional track based substance use disorder recovery program: evaluation, facilitators and barriers

An evaluation of St. Matthew’s House Justin’s Place Recovery Program and its motivational, discovery and transitional tracks, testing whether completing the program is associated with retention, reduced return to use, restored family relationships and employment.

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Recovery capital outcomes associated with an access to recovery program

Whether Kentucky’s Access to Recovery program built recovery capital over time, tracked across four points as participants used recovery housing, transportation support and help meeting basic needs.

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Facts and Personal Recovery Stories to Reduce Substance Use Disorder Stigma and Increase Support for Recovery Housing: a US Randomized Study

A randomized study of five message conditions — education about recovery housing, and a personal recovery story told as identified text, anonymous text or video — measuring the effect on stigma and on support for recovery housing.

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Implementing contingency management into rural recovery housing: recommendations of a professional advisory expert panel

Recommendations from a national expert panel on bringing contingency management into rural recovery houses, where dropout rates run high — covering the practical and ethical questions implementation raises.

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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.