Optimizing Recovery Funding Report
A Welcome Letter
By Sharon Hesseltine
Peer Recovery CoE Steering Committee Chair
President and CEO, Intentional Beginnings
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Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Thank you for your interest in learning more about the opportunities and challenges we collectively face specific to optimizing funding for recovery support services (RSS). If you are new the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence (PR CoE), allow me to take a few lines here to share about the Center.
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Since our inception in the late summer of 2020, the PR CoE strives to enhance
and support the field of peer recovery support services. We accomplish that vision through providing training and technical assistance designed to build and elevate an equitable peer workforce to deliver peer recovery support services. Our focus areas include supporting the integration of peer recovery support services across a variety of settings, building capacity amongst new and existing recovery community organizations (RCOs), supporting peer workforce development, and promoting and disseminating both evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence. To learn more about us and how you or your organization could benefit from our support, I encourage you to visit our website at peerrecoverynow.org. The PR CoE is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as one of an array of entities designed to support the broader behavioral health field.
This report, Optimizing Recovery Funding, is reflective of recovery support services across the broader continuum of the ecosystem of recovery. As such, it
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encompasses recovery community organizations, recovery community centers, peer recovery organizations, recovery housing, recovery high school and collegiate programs, recovery peer support, recovery cafés, and any other type of organization that provides substance use disorder recovery support services. In addition, the PR CoE purposely sought to understand the needs and elevate the voices of organizations in the ecosystem of recovery that serve historically underserved and/or minoritized populations....continue to full letter.
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March 20-26, 2023 is National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week®. NDAFW, is an annual, week-long, health observance that inspires dialogue about the science of drug use and addiction among youth. It provides an opportunity to bring together scientists, students, educators, healthcare providers, and community partners to help advance the science
and address youth drug and alcohol use in communities and nationwide.
Click here to learn more!
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Continuing Training Series
The Peer Recovery CoE has two ongoing training series. Click below for more information and registration!
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The PR CoE is reconvening our Skills Development Series in 2023! Join us for monthly training sessions for Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialists (PRSS).
The purpose of this training series is to provide recurring opportunities for peer recovery support specialists from across the country to build foundational skills that are necessary for effective peer support service provision. Each of the 6 topics will be offered twice per year* in order to accommodate PRSS who are new to the field and those who would like to brush up on their basics. Additionally, these trainings may serve as an option for TA requesters looking to build their skills as PRSS.
Find out more.
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Nonprofit Basics: Strengthening Organizational Capacity - A Learning Series
In 2021, the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence (PR CoE) conducted an extensive national needs assessment regarding capacity building needs for Recovery Community Organizations (RCOs). The study found that a common barrier to sustainability is the absence of solid organizational infrastructure, often driven by a lack of funding and understaffing. This learning series focuses on key tools and resources RCOs, RCCs, and other peer-run organizations need to develop a solid foundation from which to grow. Find out more.
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The Peer Recovery CoE hosts monthly communities of practice, a type of affinity call, as spaces for peer recovery support specialists and those who supervise them to network, learn, share, practice, and grow together. The goal of these calls is to bring together a variety of diverse perspectives from across the country to share in mutual learning that is centered on topics relevant to the peer workforce.
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March CoP for Peer Support Recovery Specialists
The Hope of Harm Reduction: Shared Values in Peer Support
March 15, @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern
Facilitators: Caroline Mazel-Carlton
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March CoP for Peer Supervisors
Navigating Educational Stigma in Professional Settings
March 22, @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern
Facilitator: Tim Saubers
NEW! 2023 Communities of Practice Sessions for April - June 2023.
Registration is Open
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Organizational Stakeholders of the Month, Vol. 10
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In this episode, our host spoke with Tim Saubers and Haner Hernandez, both PR CoE team members. Tim and Haner discussed their experiences with cultural identity and how that affected their recovery and healing journeys.
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Meet Our Organizational Stakeholders of the Month
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The Peer Recovery CoE, along with our Steering Committee member, Michael King, are pleased to announce our latest Organizational Stakeholders of the Month! Each month, we will select a few of our stakeholders in order to highlight their incredible work at our monthly stakeholder calls, in the newsletter, and our podcast. Learn more about our featured stakeholders below.
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Advocates for Recovery Colorado
Congrats to James Gannon for representing one of our March Stakeholders, Advocates for Recovery Colorado.
What have been your biggest accomplishments over the past month?
Growth in locations, staff and new peer recovery groups that provide free recovery support services to all Coloradans.
If you were to share one lesson with another peer-run organization, what would it be?
Stay true to your mission and vision, and always stay focused on solutions and the communities you serve.
Why did you sign up as a stakeholder with the Peer Recovery CoE?
After having a great meeting with Michael King he suggested that I and our organization get involved.
Find Advocates for Recovery Colorado on Facebook
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Recovery Corps
Shout out to Ben Suker who will be representing Recovery Corps on our March Stakeholders call!
What have been your biggest accomplishments over the past month?
This past month Recovery Corps members eclipsed 1,000 people served across 3 states and all along the recovery-care continuum. This number is already more than the total people served last year, which was the highest in the program's 5 year history!
If you were to share one lesson with another peer-run organization, what would it be?
AmeriCorps services can be a great opportunity for people interested in the field to gain experience and skills that benefit individuals and organizations, while being a part of a cohort of like-minded individuals from across the country (well, MN, IL, and VA for now-- but hopefully more in the coming years.)
Why did you sign up as a stakeholder with the Peer Recovery CoE?
To learn about all the great work that people and organizations are doing to advance recovery-efforts!
Find Recovery Corps on Facebook and Twitter
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We're looking forward to hearing from Carmen Skarlupka on our March Stakeholder call!
What have been your biggest accomplishments over the past month?
We received our 10,000 calls for overdose prevention monitoring, detection, crisis response and reversal services.
If you were to share one lesson with another peer-run organization, what would it be?
Provide harm reduction, trauma and wellness services to staff and volunteers.
Why did you sign up as a stakeholder with the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence?
Peer support is the life-blood of our organizations. Meeting people where they are with love and compassion.
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