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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.
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Peer Leadership Best Practices
So You Want to Become a Peer Leader in a Recovery Residence? Recovery residence house managers and others wishing to become “peer leaders” (PL) will be able to listen to interviews of six successful PLs and hear how they approached the role, the challenges they faced, and what their experiences have taught them. Anyone interested in learning more about this process of becoming a PL and their vital role in recovery residence operations will enjoy this program. At the conclusion of this program, participants will understand the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to function in the role, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved. Recovery Residences - How We Know They Work Many in the recovery field feel intuitively that recovery residences, structured sober living, and similar programs aid a person’s recovery from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Unfortunately, there has been scant research to measure outcomes and explore the questions around recovery residences: What evidence do we have that supports our ideas that recovery housing helps recovery? What types of programs have the most success? The least? What does the data tell us that may help develop evidence-based programs? Dr. Corey Vilsaint, a community research psychologist fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a principal investigator at the Recovery Research Institute and Center for Addiction Medicine, answers these questions and more in this course.
NAADAC CECourse/Training
Implementing Medication Assisted Recovery
In this course, we'll cover changes in the illicit drug supply and how these changes are impacting trends in overdoses and deaths. We'll discuss how to create a plan to support safe use of life-saving addiction medications in recovery homes, minimizing the risk of diversion. We also outline strategies to help you evaluate options for working with different kinds of healthcare providers that can work with you to streamline your residents' access to addiction treatment medications. We'll introduce a resource you can use to evaluate your best options in providing mutual support curricula and peer support groups that don't stigmatize medications for addiction. We'll help you to create policies and procedures to safely and manage FDA-approved addiction medications on-site, with special attention to the Department of Justice guidance on the Americans with Disabilities Act that assures access to medications for treating opioid use disorder. Finally, we'll review compliance concerns with this act and the Fair Housing Act, sharing case scenarios and additional information.
NAADAC CECourse/Training
Justice and Correctional Initiatives
This course is about Person-Centered Approaches when working with individuals with Substance Use Disorder or SUD. This is a foundational course to other courses on this topic. In this course, we will discuss Stigma and Discrimination, Labeling Theory and why Language Matters, Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs), and how this impacts the Legal and Correctional Systems and a Person-Centered Approach. The course will be divided into articles, handouts, videos, and presentations. As you go through this course at your own pace, take the time to consider how this content can impact the work that you do and how you go about helping your clients.
NAADAC CECourse/Training
Insurance and Budgeting for Recovery Housing
Two courses make up this bundle on the financial foundations of a recovery residence. Finances and Budgeting: when developing a recovery house, it is important to identify ways to sustain your operation — covers the basics of recovery house financing considerations, including capital expenses, operating expenses, stopgap funding, and ways to become sustainable. Insurance for Recovery Housing: purchasing insurance for your recovery house is not the same as you would purchase for your own home — there are important considerations to discuss with your board and insurance agent, and this course provides an overview of the different items you should investigate as you begin shopping for insurance for the house.
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Integrated Recovery Residences and Supports into the ASAM Criteria
Welcome to the Fletcher Group's course on how the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has, for the first time, integrated recovery services like mutual-support and peer support groups, recovery housing , and employment training into comprehensive treatment planning. The Learning Objectives for this course are: Introduce the important changes about recovery supports and recovery residences in ASAM: Provide information about the evidence and conceptual frameworks used to fully integrated recovery support services into ASAM treatment planning, and; Learn about ASAM’s recommended assessment tools in recovery capital.
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An Introduction to the 12-Steps as a Recovery Pathway
This course provides a brief overview of the history of the 12-steps, and how it is used as a recovery pathway. The course is not intended to promote any particular fellowship or recovery pathway, nor is it intended as a substitute for individual participation.
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Get to Know You
The more you know about your personality, unique qualities, abilities, and values, the better you will be able to identify the right career path. Get to Know You outlines how you can take a deeper dive into learning what makes you uniquely you.
NAADAC CECourse/Training
Recovery House Alumni Best Practices
Optimizing Success: Best Practices to Serve Your Recovery House's Alumni - Alumni programs create a network of current and future support for your rural recovery house. Graduates can help current residents navigate their recovery journey, including providing potential opportunities for mentoring or employment. So, recovery house owners and operators need to remain active and engaged with former residents. This course provides four best practices for building your alumni network. Action plan templates are included for download by students. Finding the Balance: Your Recovery House and Alumni Support - Alumni support is a critical factor in building a healthy support network for your recovery house. You can gain valuable insights, referrals, and new opportunities by building strong and lasting connections with your alumni. By the end of this course, participants can use these best practices to build upon the action plan for their recovery house Alumni Network you began in our course Optimizing Success.
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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.
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Understanding HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 in Recovery Residences
Created in March of 2025, this course discusses breaches of confidentiality in a recovery residence can lead to stress, anxiety, and a sense of betrayal, which may trigger a return to use. Maintaining confidentiality helps create a supportive and secure environment conducive to long-term recovery. Protecting confidentiality ensures a safe, supportive, and legally compliant environment where individuals can focus on their recovery without fear of exposure or judgment. Learning Objectives: Be introduced to HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 and the possible applicability of these two federal laws to recovery residences; Understand the importance of HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 and their impact on confidentiality in recovery housing
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