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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.
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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, it’s important for recovery house owners and operators 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.
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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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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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The Basics of Managing Stress
Stress. It's an unavoidable part of life. It doesn't have to be a negative experience though if you practice ways to reduce the impact of the stress. Managing stress is a crucial component of self-care. This course takes you through the basics of managing stress and implementing them as part of a self-care program.
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Recovery House Supervision Best Practices
This module covers two primary aspects of supervising recovery housing - the community INSIDE of the house and the community OUTSIDE of the house. Recovery House Management - Creating a Supportive Internal Community & Recovery House Management - Understanding & Responding to NIMBYism in Communities.
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Recovery Community Organizations 101: 2022 FGI Summit
Presented by Tara Moseley Hyde, B.P.S., M.P.A.P., this course covers the definition of recovery community organization (RCO), describes the types of RCO's that support workforce and education development, and shares how you can support the startup or continuation of an RCO in your community. 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.
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Justice: Post-Adjudication
This course is an overview of the justice system while also discussing issues addressing substance use disorder within the correctional system. We discuss the impact of the War on Drugs on the correctional system, treatment opportunities for individuals with substance use disorder post-adjudication, forms of supervised community release, and other alternatives to incarceration. The most important takeaway is that there are alternatives that could have a more positive effect on individuals with SUD than incarceration.
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Applying for a Job
Don’t get stressed out over the prospect of applying for a job. Following the best practices outlined in this course makes applying for a job easy and (mostly) stressfree!
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Communication Fundamentals
In recovery housing, it is important to both staff and residents to ensure they competently use good communication. But have you ever found yourself wondering what that means—or how to demonstrate you’re a good communicator? In this course, you’ll learn how to define communication, the types of communication we use at work, how to choose the right delivery method for your message, and how to remove barriers to having it understood.
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Suicide Prevention in Recovery Housing and Support Services
This course, originally developed for Kentucky SUD Peer Support Specialists, explores the crucial role peers play in recognizing and responding to signs of distress among those they work with daily.
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