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The Secrets to Skilled Delegation

When you think of a leader in the rural recovery housing community, who do you imagine? Chances are, it’s someone who knows the difference between doing and leading. Great leaders strategically guide the team’s work—they don’t do the team’s work. That’s where delegation comes in. Delegation is assigning responsibility for specific activities to others. In this course, you’ll learn why you should delegate, how to do it, how to select the right people for the job, and how to get out of the way so they can complete their assignments.

R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates

From Withdrawal to Regulation: The Brain's Timeline for Early Recovery

Amy Jeppesen explores the neurobiology of recovery, reframing challenging early-recovery behaviors as neurobiological responses rather than character failures - the four brain systems impacted by addiction, the four phases of recovery from acute withdrawal through early stabilization, dopamine and cortisol dynamics, and practical recovery housing strategies built on structure, co-regulation, and scaffolding support.

Learning Brief

Community Organizing and Engagement

A framework for engaging your community and its stakeholders across the whole life of a recovery housing project, from inception to completion. Covers how to identify key partners, why existing local substance use disorder task forces make valuable early allies, and how steady relationships and proactive planning protect a project's success.

Recovery House Checklists

Prepare a recovery residence for opening with practical checklists covering the essential elements of a safe, functional, and welcoming home. This guide addresses recovery house structure and operations, furnishings, emergency equipment, technology, and consumable supplies to help operators assess needs, plan purchases, develop budgets, and create a recovery-oriented living environment.

Pregnant and Parenting Complexities in Recovery Housing

In this course, we will briefly touch on the prevalence of pregnant individuals with a substance use disorder; housing considerations for individuals that are pregnant, postpartum, and or parenting; recovery house partnerships; early recovery and parenting; medication to support recovery; infant withdrawal, needs, and other considerations; and provide a few national resources for deeper education and support.

PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow

Learn how PAX Tools for New Beginnings uses evidence-based, trauma-informed strategies to support women in recovery and strengthen relationships with their children and families. This webinar explores practical approaches for building self-awareness, self-regulation, communication, and relationship skills that can be integrated into everyday recovery settings and carried into the home and family environment.

Learning Brief

Resilience in Recovery

Strategies for building resilience in early recovery, when learning new ways to think and act collides with stress and triggers. Covers managing your emotions, building a strong support system, recognizing your personal strengths, and using healthy coping techniques to improve the odds of long-term recovery.

A Manager's Guide to Resolving Team Conflict

You’d love for your employees to always get along. But the reality is that disagreements happen when you bring together people with different personalities, opinions, and values. As a manager, you need to keep an eye on potential conflicts between employees and help them resolve issues effectively. Otherwise, your team’s morale, productivity, and communication may take a hit. In this course, you’ll learn why conflict happens, common ways people react to conflict, and how to turn workplace disagreements into opportunities for constructive dialogue, change, and new understanding.

Co-Occurring Disorders and Recovery Support

Geoff Wilson, President of the Kentucky Association of Addiction Professionals, discusses the challenges faced by those with a Co-Occurring Disorder and what recovery home and recovery program operators can do to help residents and clients with a COD.

Learning Brief

Selecting a Recovery Management System

Learn what to consider when selecting a Recovery Management System (RMS) for a recovery residence. This guide explores key factors, including program needs, system functionality and integration, reporting, data security, training and support, costs, and data ownership, to help recovery housing providers choose a system that supports efficient operations, accountability, and data-informed decision-making.

Peer Support and Supervisor Boundaries

Maintaining professional boundaries can be challenging, especially when working in supportive services, such as peer recovery or recovery housing. This course begins the conversation and offers tools to help you with confidentiality, boundary setting, guidelines for self-disclosure, and organizational climates to help identify, establish, and maintain healthy boundaries in professional support work. Course Objectives: Identify Confidentiality & HIPAA compliance; Define boundaries and their benefits; Discuss Guidelines for Self Disclosure; Discuss organizational co-worker boundaries.