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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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Latest Highlights

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

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

Tony sits down with Dr. Brandee Izquierdo, Director of Behavioral Health at The Pew Charitable Trusts, to explore how lived experience, policy, data, and recovery housing can strengthen recovery ecosystems. Together, they discuss the Social-Experiential Model of Recovery, the role of recovery homes, support for unhoused and justice-involved individuals, and how communities can use data for improvement rather than surveillance. This conversation reminds us that recovery is more than treatment or crisis response. It is about building a full life across Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.

Publications & Papers

Identification of Retention in Oxford Houses and Other Types of Recovery Housing: A Scoping Review

A scoping review across five databases of what is known about how long residents stay in Oxford Houses and other recovery housing, and how retention is defined and measured in the literature.

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.

Publications & Papers

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

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.

Publications & Papers

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.

Publications & Papers

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.

Publications & Papers

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.

Publications & Papers

Psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12)

The psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12), a 12-item instrument for the sense of connection between residents that shared lived experience is meant to build.

Publications & Papers

Financial landscape of recovery housing in the United States

Estimates the size of the recovery housing industry from 2020 survey data: roughly $250,000 in annual revenue per house and $4.5 billion nationally, broken down by revenue source for rural and non-rural houses.

Publications & Papers

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.

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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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.