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

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Deflection

Learn how deflection can provide a pathway to recovery in rural communities by connecting individuals with substance use and mental health needs to treatment and community-based services instead of the criminal justice system. This video introduces the role of public safety and public health partnerships and demonstrates how deflection can work in practice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Social Model of Recovery

Explore the Social Model of Recovery and how it creates recovery-oriented environments that promote independence, personal responsibility, and connection. This video explains how peer-led, peer-driven recovery housing uses supportive, home-like environments and lived experience to empower residents to take ownership of their recovery and build skills for long-term recovery.

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.”

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.