Resource Library

Various community recovery support services help sustain positive behavior change for individuals with alcohol and drug use disorders. This article reviews the rationale, origins, emergence, prevalence, and empirical research on a variety of recovery support services in U.S. communities that may influence the likelihood of sustained recovery. The community recovery support services reviewed include recovery high schools, collegiate recovery programs, recovery homes, recovery coaches, and recovery community centers. Many individuals are not provided with the types of environmental supports needed to solidify and support their recovery, so there is a need for more research on who may be best suited for these services as well as when, why, and how they confer benefit.

This is a webinar to discuss factors that have historically driven the disproportionate impact of HIV on Black communities and policy and programmatic solutions to help eliminate disparities highlighted in a new Special Issue of the Journal of Healthcare, Science, and the Humanities.

The webinar, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Policy Action Needed to Address HIV/AIDS in the Black Community, features leaders in the HIV space.

The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities. This webinar will discuss how health care organizations need to ensure that awareness, adoption, and implementation of the National CLAS Standards are incorporated to have a more inclusive definition of culture in order to better serve homeless and recovering individuals.

OBJECTIVES:

• Define the CLAS standards, themes and recommendations
• Understand strategies for decreasing health disparities for people in recovery
• Learn types of peer support and value of services delivered by peer-led experts
• Explore key cultural and structural drivers of peer recovery (homelessness, poverty and other factors)

The Original Peer Support Recovery & Coping Skills Workbook & Curriculum -- Hope Worksheet

Gregorio* “Craig” Lewis believes in recovery with all his heart. Sometimes, life happens and things change. This author walked his talk straight into the gutter —living a fairly desperate and upsetting, yet transformative life while homeless— until a mere 4 years and 6 months ago. Now, he is living a new life, truly alive and well in the heart of Mexico. He is the evidence that if you want to get better, do the work, experience the improvements.  Gregorio’s workbooks are for people like him: the poor, the unwanted, the blamed, the hurt, the labeled, the outcast, and the rejected. Gregorio’s workbooks are for people like you: the carers, the lovers, the educators, the agents-of-change and the healers. Everything you read in his books was learned and earned the hard way. Recovery is some of the hardest work possible. Do it, and keep doing it and maybe, just maybe, your dreams will also come true.

*Gregorio has given his permission for the PR CoE to share these three coping skills packets on their website. The public is free to download and use these packets.

Obtain full workbooks here: survivingtheimpossible@gmail.com

This report summarizes the findings of a landscape analysis on the topic of peer providers in mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services. To describe the landscape, we used a series of terms to capture the many titles and roles peer providers play, and conducted a literature search of peer-reviewed and published studies and reports, as well as a search of the “grey” literature on several topics, including:

• Peer Support Roles, Organizational Settings, and Models of Care UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care Research Report 6
• Integration of Peer Providers into Traditional Care
• Evidence of Efficacy of Peer Support
• Policy and Financial Infrastructure for the Peer Support, including Billing, Reimbursement, and Sources of Funding for Peer Support Programs
• Training and Certification for Peer Support

A wide variety of specialized roles have evolved to assist individuals and families achieve recovery achieve recovery from addiction, including recovery from what have been called process addictions—harmful relationships with gambling, food, sex, money, etc. There is a long history of addiction medicine specialists (addiction-trained physicians, psychiatrists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses), addiction counselors, addiction-trained therapists, outreach workers, case managers, and interventionists, to name just a few. One of the most recently emerging roles is that of the recovery coach. This particular role has a complex etymology, with roots in both the voluntary peer supports found in addiction recovery mutual aid societies and in the field of professional life coaching. As a result of this mixed heritage, the public is now confronted with a variety of people calling themselves recovery coaches or offering recovery coaching as a specialized service who vary considerably in how they perceive and practice this role.

Dr. Mark Ragins, MD, has enclosed in this packet several short documents that highlight various aspects of recovery-based transformation, including:

• The Four Stages of Recovery
• Person Centered vs. Illness Centered
• We Treat Chronic Illnesses, Don't We?
• Milestones of Recovery Scale

The following link/resource describes clinical, non-clinical, and self-management pathways.

This Guide is designed as a study aid to help prepare for and pass the Rhode Island Peer Recovery Specialist Certification Exam. The content of the Guide is based on the knowledge, skills and job tasks derived from the 2013 Peer Recovery Job Analysis conducted by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC), which sets standards and develops examinations for the credentialing of prevention, substance use treatment, and recovery professionals. The Guide was developed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., in consultation with BHDDH, subject matter experts in the behavioral health field, and input from peer recovery specialists who have taken the certification exam, or are working in recovery settings in Rhode Island.

The authors of this article delve into the science behind what makes people care. They’ve identified five principles that are supported by research from a range of academic disciplines. Collectively, these rules offer a framework for building and assessing your communication strategy and designing efforts more likely to result in belief and behavior change.

Indiana University-Purdue University Inidanapolis' Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health published this brief in order to illustrate a PRC's essential role in combatting the opioid epidemic in Indiana. Key points include the expectation that expanded use of PRC's will result in higher treatment access and engagement, and, thus, lower rates of opioid-related mortality. Additionally, several barriers need to be addressed before successful integration of PRC's into a work setting can be achieved.

This TIP supports learning about the key aspects, functions, and uses of Peer Support Services (PSS) in recovery from problematic substance use, which will help providers, supervisors, and administrators in SUD treatment programs better understand and respond to these changes.