Trauma-Informed Care in Rural Recovery Residences
This course provides an overview of trauma-informed care and how trauma can impact a person. By implementing trauma-informed care in your rural recovery house setting, you can help residents better manage their outcomes and build recovery capital.
Creating a Culture of Change: Motivational Interviewing in Recovery Housing
Explore Motivational Interviewing (MI) and how it can support change in your recovery house. Students will recognize the spirit of MI and its core elements and strategies, be able to identify basic skills they can adopt, and know where to find more resources for continued learning.
Understanding Urine Analysis
When used correctly and competently following best practice guidelines, urine analysis can be an effective therapeutic tool.
Urine Analysis: From a Resident Perspective
This course will explain urine analysis from the residents perspective. Providing person-first care, dignity, and respect is hugely important to your residents.
Re-Entry Considerations for Rural Recovery Housing
This course reviews considerations that should be taken for those who will be housing individuals that are re-entering the community after incarceration.
Finding the Balance: Your Recovery House and Alumni Support
Gain valuable insights, referrals, and new opportunities by building strong and lasting connections by staying connected to your alumni.
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. This course provides four best practices for building your alumni network.
Partnering with Faith-Based Entities
Dr. Matt Johnson, the Fletcher Group’s Director of Faith-Based Initiatives, discusses how faith-based organizations can be meaningful partners in building an effective recovery ecosystem, particularly in rural communities where such organizations are often the center of conversation, education, and community life.
Rural Recovery House Management – Creating a Supportive Internal Community
When a rural recovery residence employs the Peer-led, Peer-Driven Social Model, it provides its residents with an environment designed to empower them to make decisions, to be part of a recovery community, to be comfortable and safe, and to learn and grow.
The Benefits of Gratitude
Dr. Joel Wong, Chairman of Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology and Director of UI’s Gratitude Interventions and Practices Lab, discusses the science and proven benefits of gratitude, particularly the innovative interventions he’s designed to improve the mental health of those in recovery through the heartfelt expression of gratitude. Additional helpful information […]