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

May 2026: Handle Challenging Behavior in Your Recovery Home

Carmin Long and Alan Muia on resident behavior in rural recovery homes — taming the “lizard brain,” the distinction between the person and the behavior, and a worksheet to work it through.

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October 2024: Learn How to Share Your Story and Improve Your Public Speaking

Learn how to share your story, and improve your public speaking.

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September 2025: How to De-Escalate and Resolve Any Kind of Conflict

Conflict resolution expert Sal Corbin on why avoiding conflict carries its own cost, the skillset for handling it, and what to actually do in the moment.

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April 2026: Recovery Is Always a “We Thing,” Never a “Me Thing”

Tara Moseley Hyde on Community-Based Recovery Support Services — why the medical and social models work best together rather than in competition, and recovery as a “we thing.”

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January 2026: Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Overcome Geographic and Financial Barriers to Recovery

OpenRecovery’s Zachary Gidwitz and Alex Weber on what AI in recovery is and is not, how to get it right, and an introduction to Kai, a therapist-led, AI-supported mental health platform — including how readers can shape it.

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December 2025: Pregnant and Parenting Women Can Receive the Recovery Housing and Services They Need for Long-Term Recovery

Read about PEARL and its Grace House women’s center in rural Franklin County, Virginia, which houses pregnant and postpartum women in recovery an hour’s drive from the nearest services.

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November 2025: Understand the Financial Challenges Facing Recovery Homes and Where to Look for Help

Funding is the number one challenge recovery homes can face. Read about the blended-funding model behind Recovery Kentucky, the Economic Calculator, and additional funding sources.

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December 2023: Why Confidentiality Is Essential and How to Protect It

Why confidentiality is a sacred duty in recovery, the legal and ethical obligations it carries, and the particular difficulty of privacy in rural communities where everyone knows everyone.

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June 2026: A New Financial Model for Non-Profits

Seed Sower CEO Jay Phillips on braided funding — why grants alone leave a non-profit precarious, how a revenue-positive transport service pays for recovery housing, and data-driven storytelling.

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April 2023: How Physical and Social Activity Aids Recovery

Profiles The Phoenix, the sober active community whose 200,000-plus members build recovery through free classes and events, and what its virtual offerings mean for rural communities.

Success Story

SMART in Ohio

The faith-based, privately funded Beneath The Shade women's recovery center just outside Dover, Ohio isn't the most likely setting for secular, science-driven recovery. "In the beginning we were just a bunch of church ladies praying together, with no idea how to get started," says Board Member Traci Hooper.

Success Story

Thinking Big

Pastor Matt Johnson wanted more. He was already running a sober recovery program from his Suncrest United Methodist Church in Morgantown when he contacted Karen Coburn, the Fletcher Group's Outreach and Engagement Specialist for West Virginia. "I'm not sure she knew what she was getting into," says Johnson. "But from that moment on we've been moving at warp speed—much quicker than anyone could have expected.

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