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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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Latest Highlights

Podcast
Episode 5: Community Policing, Deflection, and Pre-Arrest Diversion as Recovery Ecosystem Strategies
WebinarNAADAC CE
PAX Tools for New Beginnings to Inspire a Stronger Tomorrow
R.H. Guide/Handbook & Templates
How to Raise Funds
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Learning Brief

Hire an Executive Director

A methodology and checklist to help a recovery house Board of Directors hire an Executive Director. Frames hiring as one of the board's core duties — alongside securing resources and setting clear direction — and walks through how to procure the best possible talent for the role.

Course/Training

Understanding and Responding to NIMBYism in Communities

NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) is a characterization of opposition by residents in a rural or urban community, to proposed developments in their local area. These developments could include the location of new recovery housing. This course can assist you with recognizing and navigating situations where NIMBY occurs.

NAADAC CE
Webinar

Criminal Justice Deflection Considerations

Deflection experts Guy Farina, Jac Charlier, and Sydney Goggins, all of whom work for the non-profit organization Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC), explain how deflection works and why it matters, particularly in rural communities.

Learning Brief

Addressing Inappropriate Behavior

A ten-step framework for addressing inappropriate behavior in a peer-led social model recovery home, where the environment itself is the service. Covers setting clear community standards, teaching residents to address the behavior rather than the person, natural and graduated consequences, repairing harm, and re-entry plans — accountability aimed at growth rather than punishment.

Course/Training

Project Management: Kickoff Planning

This course provides simple steps to help you identify and analyze your stakeholders to implement your recovery house.

NAADAC CE
Webinar

Working with Challenging Behaviors: Turning Behavioral Incidents into Transformational Experiences

We shouldn't be surprised when people recovering from substance use and/or mental health challenges struggle to function well in community living. Their past traumatic experiences and broken trust have resulted in them adopting destructive coping strategies. Residence operators should not only expect challenging behavior, but should develop a wide repertoire of trauma-informed responses that help residents develop essential life skills. We must move beyond removing residents for "bad behavior".

Learning Brief

How to Select a Site

A step-by-step methodology and checklist for choosing where to put a recovery residence. Explains why location so often decides whether a home succeeds or fails, and why rural sites need particular care to stay within reach of the services that make up a complete continuum of care.

Course/Training

9 Simple Stress Busters You Can Do Today

Figuring out ways to reduce stress levels may seem intuitive, but a helpful reminder never hurts. This course takes you through 9 simple things you can do today to reduce stress and improve your mental and emotional wellbeing.

Learning Brief

How to Handle NIMBYism

A methodology and checklist for responding to "Not In My Backyard" opposition. Explains what drives NIMBYism, the tactics opponents use — including portraying developers as outsiders profiting at locals' expense, which cuts especially deep in small communities — and how to respond proactively before it causes design changes, delays, or permit denials.

NAADAC CE
Webinar

Beyond the Grant: Braided Funding for Nonprofit Sustainability

James “Jay” Phillips, CEO of Seed Sower, Inc., explores practical approaches for moving nonprofits beyond grant dependency toward long-term financial sustainability. Using Seed Sower’s recovery ecosystem as a case study, Phillips demonstrates how organizations can combine grants, public reimbursements, billable services, partnerships, and program-generated revenue into a braided funding model that supports mission-critical services. Attendees learn strategies for identifying revenue opportunities, leveraging grants as startup capital rather than operating support, collecting meaningful outcome data, and building resilient, community-focused organizations that can sustain recovery housing, workforce development, transportation, and behavioral health services over time.

Course/Training

Re-Entry Considerations for Rural Recovery Houses

This course reviews considerations that should be taken for those who will be housing individuals that are re-entering the community after incarceration.

Learning Brief

Introducing the Qualified Allocation Plan

An introduction to the Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP), the state-level rulebook governing how Low-Income Housing Tax Credits are awarded. Explains why the allocation process shifts each year and how organizations can navigate it to fund recovery housing capital development, where budgets are tight and margins thin.

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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.