Training & Technical Assistance
Training Grounded in Real-World Experience
Haven Recovery provides practical, implementation-focused training for organizations, communities, professionals, peer-support teams, and individuals in recovery. Our training combines current best practices with experience operating peer-led recovery, housing, treatment, outreach, and recuperative-care programs.
Haven has partnered with the Center for Program Development's CARES initiative—Continuing the Advancement of Recovery Education & Services—to offer training related to peer support, substance use, mental health, homelessness, recovery housing, and workforce development.
Who We Train
Serving Organizations, Professionals, and Communities
• Hospitals and health systems
• Behavioral-health and treatment providers
• Recovery-housing organizations
• Homeless-service organizations
• Government agencies and community coalitions
• Justice-system partners
• Schools, churches, libraries, and community organizations
• Peer recovery specialists
• Community health workers
• Supervisors and organizational leaders
• Individuals in early recovery
PEP-ED: Emergency Department Response
Peer response following overdose, alcohol poisoning, substance-use crisis, or other emergency-department encounters.
PEP-MED: Hospital and Medical Settings
Peer integration within hospital units, infectious-disease services, behavioral-health units, perinatal care, and other medical settings.
PEP-PCP: Primary Care Provider Offices
Peer support and follow-up when substance-use or recovery needs are identified in primary-care settings.
PEP-COMMUNITY: Community Settings
Peer integration in shelters, libraries, schools, churches, outreach programs, and other community locations.
PEP-JUSTICE: Justice-System Settings
Peer support across law enforcement, courts, jails, prisons, reentry services, and parole or probation settings.
Training Area 1
Integrating Peers — Peers Engaging People (PEP) Programs
Bring Peer Support Into New Settings
Peers with lived recovery experience can create meaningful connections with people experiencing substance-use concerns, overdose, homelessness, medical vulnerability, or behavioral-health needs. Haven provides hands-on training and implementation support for organizations embedding peer recovery services in traditional and nontraditional settings.
Implementation Topics
• Introduction to peer recovery support
• The role and value of peer recovery specialists
• Overview of peer-response models
• Review of community needs and local resources
• Resource mapping
• Community-partner convening and facilitation
• Policy and procedure development
• Implementation-plan development
• Informational materials for stakeholders and community partners
• Ongoing implementation support
Peer Integration Settings and Models
PEP-ED
Emergency Department Response
Peer response following overdose, alcohol poisoning, substance-use crisis, or other emergency-department encounters.
PEP-MED
Hospital and Medical Settings
Peer integration within hospital units, infectious-disease services, behavioral-health units, perinatal care, and other medical settings.
PEP-PCP
Primary Care Provider Offices
Peer support and follow-up when substance-use or recovery needs are identified in primary-care settings.
PEP-COMMUNITY
Community Settings
Peer integration in shelters, libraries, schools, churches, outreach programs, and other community locations.
PEP-JUSTICE
Justice-System Settings
Peer support across law enforcement, courts, jails, prisons, reentry services, and parole or probation settings.
Training Area 2
Peer Recovery and Community Health Workforce
Strengthen the People Doing the Work
Training is available for peer recovery specialists, community health workers, supervisors, and organizations employing lived-experience professionals.
Peer Recovery Support Topics
• Peer-support roles and core competencies
• Sharing your recovery story appropriately and effectively
• Ethics, boundaries, and guiding principles
• Avoiding burnout before it starts
• Making a comeback from burnout
• Helping individuals build recovery capital
• Supporting medication-assisted treatment and medication-supported recovery
• Addressing internal debates about recovery pathways
• Working in medical settings
• Crisis and overdose response
• Behavioral-health settings
• Supporting pregnant and parenting individuals
• Criminal-justice and reentry settings
Advanced Skill-Building Topics
• SAMHSA's principles of recovery
• Motivational interviewing
• Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
• Interdisciplinary team building
• Leadership development
Supervisor and Organizational-Leadership Topics
• SAMHSA guidelines for peer supervision
• Building diversity within teams
• Creating growth opportunities for peer recovery specialists
• Addressing stigma related to medication-supported recovery
• Addressing stigma related to nontraditional recovery pathways
• Advocating for peer services with organizational leadership
• Learning from peer recovery specialists
• Integrating peers into interdisciplinary teams
Training Area 3
Recovery Housing Development and Quality
Start or Strengthen Recovery Housing
Haven provides tailored training and technical assistance for organizations, communities, and states developing new recovery-housing options or improving existing programs. Training can be aligned with applicable state requirements and national recovery-residence standards.
Recovery Housing Training Topics
• Virtual or in-person facility tours
• Recovery-housing program models
• Review of recovery-housing rules
• Fair-housing laws and responsibilities
• Review of state and national standards
• Policy and procedure manual review
• Policy and procedure development
• Recordkeeping and documentation systems
• Quality-improvement planning
• Accreditation-readiness assessment
• Guidance through the accreditation process
• Peer-support integration
• Resident rights and person-centered practices
• Development of an appropriate housing continuum
Understanding the Housing Continuum
Haven helps organizations determine which housing models fit their community. The following examples illustrate a range of options—not a single required model:
Respite — Short-term, low-barrier housing while needs and options are assessed.
Triage
— A soft landing for people beginning or determining their next recovery steps.
Recovery Housing
— Supervised, supportive housing with peer support and structured involvement.
Medical or Recuperative Care
— Housing and coordinated support for medically vulnerable individuals.
Next Step Housing
— Greater independence in apartments or community-based housing with continued support.
Training Area 4
Substance Use, Recovery, and Harm Reduction
Build Understanding. Reduce Stigma. Improve Support.
These trainings are designed to deepen knowledge, reduce stigma, and strengthen how organizations and individuals support people affected by substance use and the path to recovery.
Substance-Use Topics
• The scientific understanding of addiction
• Substance-use disorders and their effects
• Medication-assisted treatment and medication-supported recovery
• Evidence-based treatment and recovery approaches
Recovery Topics
• History of recovery efforts
• Principles of recovery
• Multiple pathways of recovery
• Building recovery capital
• Addressing stigma
• Medication-supported recovery
• Non-abstinence-based recovery
• Harm-reduction-informed recovery
Harm-Reduction Topics
• History and principles of harm reduction
• Risk-reduction education
• Building a healthy life beyond abstinence
• Overdose education
• Naloxone/Narcan education
• Connecting harm reduction with treatment, healthcare, and recovery support
Training for Specific Populations
• Best practices for serving justice-involved and reentry populations
• Recovery support for pregnant and parenting individuals
• Harm reduction for pregnant and parenting individuals
• Trauma-informed approaches
• People experiencing homelessness
• People with complex medical or behavioral-health needs
Training Area 5
Training for Individuals in Early Recovery
Practical Skills for the Next Chapter
Individuals may request these trainings directly, or organizations may arrange them for clients, patients, residents, or program participants.
Job-Readiness Training
• One-hour resume-building session
• Individual resume review
• One-on-one mock interviews
• Individualized interview feedback
• Job-search and workplace-readiness skills
Money-Management Training (Three-Session Series)
Session 1: Basics and Budgets
Includes a practical budget template.
Session 2: Savings
Strategies for developing sustainable saving habits.
Session 3: Future Sustainability
Planning and skills for long-term financial stability.
Additional Early-Recovery Topics
• Goal setting
• Daily structure and routines
• Communication and self-advocacy
• Navigating employment barriers
• Building healthy support systems
• Accessing community resources
• Preparing for greater independence
Training Area 6
Recuperative Care and Medical Respite
Develop Care Where Healthcare, Housing, and Recovery Meet
Haven offers training and technical assistance for organizations exploring or strengthening recuperative-care and medical-respite programs for people experiencing homelessness or housing instability.
Recuperative Care Training Topics
• Understanding the recuperative-care model
• Assessing community need
• Developing hospital referral partnerships
• Admission and exclusion criteria
• Safe hospital discharge coordination
• Program staffing and role design
• Integrating case management and peer support
• Coordinating outside medical services
• Trauma-informed program design
• Documentation and quality improvement
• Outcome and utilization tracking
• Funding and sustainability considerations
• CARF and medical-respite quality standards
• Developing pathways from recuperative care into stable housing
Custom Training
Need Something More Specific?
Every organization and community is different. Haven can adapt existing training or develop a customized program around your goals, population, setting, and stage of implementation.
Options include:
• Virtual training
• On-site training
• Conference presentations
• Workshops
• Multi-session learning series
• Implementation coaching
• Policy and document review
• Program-development consultation
• Ongoing technical assistance
Thank you for reaching out. A member of Haven's team will be in touch to discuss your training needs.
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