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Value of Recovery Through Community Based Recovery Supports

Recovery advocate Tara Hyde explains how Community-Based Recovery Support Services—recovery community centers, recovery housing, and peer support—can increase one-year sustained remissions rates by as much as 60 percent while reducing total cost per successful outcome by as much as 55 percent.

Imposter Syndrome: What It Is and How to Overcome It

Do you ever get a nagging feeling that you’re a fraud? A feeling like you don’t deserve your accomplishments, you’ll never be “good enough,” and it’s only a matter of time before people find out? That feeling, while isolating, is common. And it has a name: impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome is a type of chronic self-doubt that causes us to feel like we’re inadequate, despite evidence showing otherwise. The result is that we become our own worst enemy—selling ourselves short and hurting our workplace performance. So, what does it take to overcome impostor syndrome? In this course, you’ll learn to define impostor syndrome and determine whether it’s something you’re experiencing. Then, you’ll learn how impostor syndrome holds you back as well as six strategies to face your insecurities head-on.

Conduct a Needs Assessment

A methodology and resource list for assessing what your rural community actually needs before you develop recovery housing. Covers zoning, service availability, employment opportunities, local sources of support, and public attitudes including NIMBYism and stigma — with attention to running an assessment when resources are limited.

De-Escalation & Conflict Transformation

In this monthly Fletcher Group webinar from September 4 of 2025, Conflict resolution expert Sal Corbin describes the latest and most effective de-escalation techniques that can enable you to transform any kind of conflict—whether at work or at home—into something healthy and mutually rewarding.

Exploring Career Goals

Exploring Career Goals is all about discovering educational, training, and professional opportunities that complement your interests, passion, and goals. Defining your interests and skills helps you to determine career interests, which in turn can put you on the right path to bring your career aspirations to reality.

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.

Trauma: Get It Off Your Chest, It’s An Inside Job

“Trauma," says physician and author Gabor Mate, "is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.” In this video of the Fletcher Group's 47th monthly webinar on March 5, 2026, Cecily McMillan, a former foster youth and author of the book, The Scars of the Chosen, shows us how to define and identify trauma and provide trauma-informed care to recovery home residents and other recovery program clients.

Motivational Interviewing in Recovery Housing

Milena Stott from Fletcher Group's Rural Center of Excellence, presents Creating a Culture of Change: Motivational Interviewing in Recovery Housing. In this presentation she covers: Motivational Interviewing (MI) and how it works, how MI can support change in your recovery house, recognizing the spirit of MI and its core elements and strategies, identifying basic skills you can adopt, and know where to find more resources for continued learning. This course is based on information shared during the Fletcher Group Rural Center of Excellence's Building Rural Recovery Ecosystems Summit which took place in June 2022. The goal of the Summit was to enhance skills and knowledge in recovery ecosystem development by participating in a national conversation on improving the quality, capacity, and accessibility of substance use disorder rural recovery housing, recovery support services, and the broader ecosystems of the criminal justice system, and community collaboration.

Medication Assisted Recovery

Guidance on implementing medication-assisted recovery in residential settings. Sets out why it matters — fentanyl's role in driving overdose deaths, and the continuing burden on rural communities where rates can match or exceed urban areas — and how recovery residences can support residents using medication.

Enhancing Recovery Housing Financial Stability & Resiliency

All recovery residences face significant funding challenges, particularly those in rural areas. Fortunately, new tools and strategies are now available to assist you, several of which are discussed in this video of the Fletcher Group’s November 6, 2025 webinar presented by Fletcher Group CEO Dave Johnson and Fletcher Group Health Economist Madison Ashworth.

Communicate in a Crisis: Helpful Tips

Running a facility or program is not all smooth sailing. Crises are inevitable And no two crises are the same. However, a detailed plan for handling them will enable your organization to respond as wisely and effectively as possible. In this course, we will cover nine lessons of Crisis Management Planning and Communication. At the end of the course, participants will be able to Assemble a crisis team Compose a crisis plan with their team Identify the stages of a crisis Choose and prepare a spokesperson Prepare and practice for crisis situations Manage the communication of a crisis clearly, and with honesty, integrity, and compassion.