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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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Episode 3: Policy, Peers, and the Connective Tissue of Recovery

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

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Quick Response Teams

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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.

NAADAC CE

Webinar

Recovery Housing & SUD Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women

In this monthly Fletcher Group webinar from December 4 of 2025, Kat Heredia, the Community Recovery Coordinator at Piedmont Community Services in Martinsville, Virginia and Kirsty David, the Recovery Residence Manager of Piedmont's Grace House in Franklin County describe how they provide not only housing but a wide range of essential wrap-around services including pregnant and postpartum care, case management, employment training, and quality child care all while mothers stay with their children and avoid foster care.

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SAMHSA 988 Crisis Line

The course will help learners to understand what the 988 Crisis Lifeline is, how it works, and identify best practices for sharing information about the 988 Crisis Lifeline and other resources.

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Managing Food Costs

Practical strategies for controlling food costs, which after personnel and utilities can be a recovery home's largest operating expense. Addresses rising grocery prices and vendor delivery fees, the staffing constraints that make cost control difficult, and why good nutrition directly supports residents' physical recovery.

NAADAC CE

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Foundations of Self Care

A four-part NAADAC course on caring for yourself while you care for others. How to Practice Self Care: an interactive course on what self care is, why it matters, and practical ways to support yourself. Be Here Now Yoga: a guided yoga practice for grounding yourself in the present moment. Meditation Basics: an introduction to mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation and how to build a practice. SAMHSA 988 Crisis Line: what the 988 Crisis Lifeline is, how it works, and best practices for sharing it and other resources.

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Quick Response Teams

Quick Response Teams (QRTs) — interdisciplinary community programs that reach people within 48 to 72 hours of a non-fatal overdose, the window when they are most receptive to help. Covers who makes up a team, QRT goals and activities, the outcomes reported so far, and the program's history since its 2014 start. Includes practical steps: how to find a local QRT, build the relationship, agree referral guidelines, and lean on the team when someone has a return to use.

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Project Management: Project Closing

This course focuses on closing out your project. We will review documenting and handling the last steps before you have completed the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. This includes the basic elements critical but often forgotten when implementing a Rural Recovery Housing Project. We also cover how to gain acceptance to support the transition, the completion of reporting, and final budgetary information requirements, any storage or final documentation, as well as giving appreciation to the team at the time of release.

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Low Income Housing Tax Credits

How to use Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) to fund construction or renovation of larger residential recovery facilities. Explains how the IRS allocates credits to state housing finance agencies, how developers compete for them through each state's Qualified Allocation Plan, and what kind of organization is positioned to use them.

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Opening a Bank Account in 7 Easy Steps

Microlearning course on the steps to open a bank account. Serves as an introduction to financial literacy and money management concepts for residents in rural recovery housing who may have limited experience in working with banks.

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Not as Complicated as You May Think: SUD 101

An accessible and relatable look at substance use disorder (SUD), how it affects individuals, families, and communities, and the challenges people may experience on the path to recovery. Through lived experience, personal stories, and real-world examples, learners will explore how SUD can impact mental, physical, and social well-being while gaining a better understanding of the misconceptions and stigma that can create additional barriers to recovery. The course emphasizes the value of education, empathy, and informed, compassionate approaches to supporting individuals with SUD and recovery.

NAADAC CE

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An Introduction to Recovery Housing

These courses outline the best practices for recovery housing designed by the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and the Fletcher Group. We look at the NARR levels and Recovery Kentucky's peer-led, peer-driven social model of recovery. Recovery Kentucky - A Peer-Led, Peer-Driven, Empowerment Social Model of Recovery: This course covers the Recovery Kentucky model of recovery, a peer-led, peer-driven social model. Developed in the early 2000's and consisting of 17 facilities across the state of Kentucky, Recovery Kentucky has evidence-based outcomes showing the positive impact of recovery housing for the individual and the community. An Introduction to the NARR Levels of Recovery Housing: This course will educate and prepare professionals and recovery housing operators to properly identify the various levels of recovery housing and act on this information to better assist those seeking recovery housing, particularly in rural areas. The course will also help prospective recovery housing operators determine the types of recovery housing they wish to develop.

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Project Management: Project Logs

This training focuses on understanding what logs are required to manage your project after kickoff successfully. Project Logs are key artifacts that help you track decisions, changes, actions, risks, issues, lessons learned, and communications. Note: These items are key to managing the implementation of a Rural Recovery Housing Project. Specifically, the timing, content, and value, as well as the purpose of each of the items listed.

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