Webinars

Although recovery housing is one of the most well-researched types of recovery support services, there are still key gaps in the recovery housing literature. This webinar presents findings from a scoping review stimulated by questions posed by members of Community Boards involved with the Justice-Involved and Emerging Adult Populations (JEAP) Initiative. The webinar will highlight what is known about recovery housing and identify areas in which additional research is needed.

Those choosing treatment with Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) as part of their recovery pathway often have difficulties staying on these medications for extended periods of time. This webinar presents findings from a study leveraging the impact of two widely used recovery support services, peer recovery support services and recovery housing, to help those on MOUD continue treatment and return to care after treatment dropout.

Recovery community centers (RCCs) are emerging as an important component of the recovery support landscape, augmenting professional treatment, mutual-help organizations, and other types of recovery support services, like recovery housing. This webinar reviews recent literature on RCCs and explores how they may differ from and complement recovery housing.

Despite its effectiveness as a recovery support and the significant interest in it among those in or seeking recovery, misconceptions about recovery housing, including what it is and what it provides have contributed to stigma and discrimination across all levels of society, including state/local governments, medical communities, legal professionals, and the general public. This webinar reviews initiatives undertaken at the national level to support recovery housing and demonstrate the value of it.

Recovery housing may be a critical resource for those initiating and/or sustaining treatment involving MOUD. Yet despite its potential, recovery housing remains understudied, including within community pharmacy systems, where a majority of individuals who receive MOUD could benefit from resources concerning recovery housing, potentially leveraging the direct patient relationships between pharmacists and their patients. This webinar presents findings from a mixed-methods study collecting data from mobile pharmacy patients with OUD and community pharmacists regarding their awareness of and experiences with recovery housing.

Recovery housing represents a range of different levels of care, from peer-run to those that provide clinical services. This webinar reviews the therapeutic communities, which is often references as a model that is consistent with recovery housing that provides clinical services

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Marginally-housed individuals with substance use disorders face unique challenges in their recovery. This webinars reviews the treatment and recovery needs of individuals experiencing homelessness and highlights way in which recovery housing can support this population.

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Part 8 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) includes the regulations that guide opioid treatment programs (OTPs). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) revised these regulations and released the final rule in February 2024. THis webinar reviews these changes, with a spefic focus on those that are particularly relevant to those living in recovery housing.

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Health services research is a multidisciplinary field of inquiry, both basic and applied, that examines access to, and the use, costs, quality, delivery, organization, financing, and outcomes of health care services to produce new knowledge about the structure, processes, and effects of health services for individuals and populations. This webinar reviews lines of inquiry on recovery housing and how they fit within a health services research framework. 

Meeting the behavioral health needs of those in recovery from substance use disorders often requires a culturally diverse network of community-based programs, clinics and private psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists to a range of different needs. This webinar will present how two different cities have organized services to meet the recovery needs of those in their communities.

Recovery housing represents a range of different levels of care, from peer-run to those that provide clinical services. This webinar reviews the Oxford House model, which represents peer-run recovery housing.

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People taking MOUD are often excluded from the recovery community due to common myths about MAR and the belief that recovery without medication is the only acceptable path. The webinar describes the mission and findings from Project HOMES in Texas to support recovery housing for persons taking MOUD.

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The webinar reviews attidinal and capacity barriers to MOUD in recovery housing and presents findings from a new measure developed to assess them.

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Methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone are medications with demonstrated effectiveness in treating opioid use disorder, yet attitudes regarding their use can afffect uptake in their usage and one’s experience in recovery housing. The webinar presents work assessing attitudes regarding MOUD utilization among residents living in Oxford Houses.

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Medications and 12-step groups are both evidence-based approaches, and both can be valuable components of an addiction recovery strategy. Yet members of the medical and Twelve-Step communities may be hesitant to embrace what the other offers. This webinar reviews what 12-step approaches and 12-step alternatives have to offer and how they can help those who are taking MOUD.

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Individuals involved in the criminal legal system (CLS), particularly those taking MOUD face inique challenges. This webinar reviews these challenges and presents preliminary findings from a pilot study identifying critical elements of a recovery residence model to those who are CLS-involved and receiving MOUD.

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