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Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative

Source: Strength Over Stigma (SOS) Recovery Community Organization

New Hampshire’s Strength Over Stigma (SOS) Recovery Community Organization is one of the non-profit entities in New Hampshire given state grant funding to help businesses create recovery friendly workplace programs.

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Faces & Voices of Recovery

Source: Faces & Voices of Recovery

Faces & Voices of Recovery is a non-profit organization that organizes individuals in recovery and their allies to support recovery through advocacy, education, and leadership.

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Anchor Recovery Community Center

Source: Anchor Recovery Community Center

The Anchor Recovery Community Center is an organization run by people with lived experience of addiction and recovery and their allies that provides a number of services in the City of Providence and the State of Rhode Island.

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Summaries of Addiction Treatment and Recovery Research

Source: Recovery Research Institute

This webpage from the Recovery Research Institute provides summaries of proprietary peer-reviewed research studies on issues related to addiction treatment and recovery from substance use disorders.

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Peer Speak Out: Improving Substance Use Treatment Outcomes During COVID-19 – Report Summary

Source: Community Catalyst, Faces & Voices of Recovery, & American Society of Addiction Medicine

This 2-pager provides a summary of a recent report about how COVID-19 has affected patients in treatment and recovery from substance use disorders (SUD). Authors used a national online survey, 2 focus groups and the Patient Lead National Peer Council to identify what outcomes patients want from treatment, how COVID-19 is affecting them and what needs to change about treatment and recovery services offered during the pandemic and for the future.

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Peers Speak Out: Improving Substance Use Treatment Outcomes During COVID-19

Source: Community Catalyst, Faces & Voices of Recovery, & American Society of Addiction Medicine

This report explores how COVID-19 has affected patients in treatment and recovery from substance use disorders. Authors used a national online survey, 2 focus groups and the Patient Lead National Peer Council to identify what outcomes patients want from treatment, how COVID-19 is affecting them and what needs to change about treatment and recovery services offered during the pandemic and for the future.

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Ohio START Program

Source: Public Children Services Association of Ohio

The Ohio Sobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma (START) Program provides wrap-around services to children and families impacted by opiates and other drugs.

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Peers Supporting Recovery From Substance Use Disorders – Spanish Language

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

This 2-page Spanish language document provides an overview of peer specialist services for individuals receiving substance use disorder treatment or recovery services. The document defines peer support for these populations, describes services offered by peer specialists, and explains the benefits of peer recovery support services.

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Peers Supporting Recovery From Substance Use Disorders

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

This 2-pager provides an overview of peer specialist services for individuals receiving substance use disorder treatment or recovery services. The document defines peer support for these populations, describes services offered by peer specialists, and explains the benefits of peer recovery support services.

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Recovery Works: 3.0 Creating a Recovery Friendly Workplace Toolkit

Source: Connecticut Department of Labor, Connecticut Department of Public Health, & the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

The Connecticut Recovery Friendly Workplace (RFW) toolkit assists in creating a recovery friendly workplace. Resources in the toolkit include assessments of current practices, principles of a RFW, guidance for implementing a RFW policy including sample policies and communications documents, and links to additional resources such as training opportunities.

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