1. Recovery Coaching in Recovery Housing
Daphne Ayers LSW, LCDCIII, CPS
Kay Wirth  CDCA, CPS- Supervisor

2. Where Recovery Coaching Began for us at Oriana House Inc.
I would like to add Volunteer Recovery Coach started in 2011
Volunteer Recovery Coach started in 2011
Cliff Skeen / Akron OH

3. The role of the Recovery Coach
Work with treatment and caseworkers
To help with barriers on housing and jobs
Support residents with legal and doctor
appointments
Share lived experience
Help connect residents to outside sober, spiritual
and self-help groups
Focus on changing peer relationships
Add last bullet: Focus on changing peer relationships

4. Working with Clients Groups/Recovery Support Groups
Sober Fun Activities
Wellness Plans
AA, NA, CA, HA etc, aka
Support Meetings
Accountability partners
Make second bullet with Tx R separate - Have it read: Adjunct to Treatment Readiness

5. Difference between Recovery Coaches & Clinical Staff
Utilizes a lived experience of knowledge and anecdotal evidence to provide support to participants.
Does involve in-person and phone contact frequently to offer support and assistance and to foster engagement in mutual support groups, recovery oriented programming and other mental health services. They can and do drive clients to appointments etc.
Does organize structured leisure and recreational activities – based on participants preferences – in order to provide opportunities for them to practice social and coping skills.
Uses the approach of accountability rather than punishers.
Capitalizes on the client’s greatest defense; “You don’t understand. You’re not an addict.”
Clinical Staff
Does not utilize personal sharing to aid in the recovery process.
Provides clinical services such as behavior management intervention in a group or individual setting; at a site-specific work location.
Counseling and assistance provided to work towards meeting collaborative goals based upon results of a clinical assessment process. Includes the use of clinical techniques and therapeutic interventions to facilitate progress on these specified goals.
Coordinates service delivery and ensures continuity and integration of services.
Under RC section put: Recovery Coaches can debunk client’s best used defense “you don’t understand – you’re not an addict.”
Add another bullet under RC that says: Uses the approach of “accountability partner” rather than punisher.

6. GOALS FOR RECOVERY COACHES
Target:
PEOPLE
PLACES
THINGS

7. Peer Associations “I can’t give up my old Friends!” Assist clients in
recognizing and dealing
with the challenges of peer associations.

8. “I’m never gonna have fun again- life is going to be boring”
Sober Fun
“I’m never gonna have fun again- life is going to be boring”
Break the stigma
of “there’s no such
thing as sober fun.”

9. Sober Living Identify safe, sober living environments; Recovery
“My whole family uses”
Identify safe,
sober living
environments;
Recovery
Housing

10. What is a Recovery House?
Safe & Stable
A Chance to re-enter life with positive
and sober peers
Community of recovering people
helping one another
A place to learn skills to be able to
integrate into society.
A recovery house is a place that allows people with substance abuse and/or mental health issues to learn the social and other skills necessary to integrate or re-integrate into society.

11. FREDERICK AVENUE APARTMENTS
FAA
FREDERICK AVENUE APARTMENTS
25 Frederick Avenue / Akron OH 44310

12. Why do Recovery Houses work?
Structure
Protection
Support
Accountability
Supervision
Living in a recovery house provides residents with a more secure place to live, as well as a home that is drug and alcohol free. Attending programming & support group meetings gives residents a strong treatment foundation and a sense of routine.

13. Frederick Avenue Apartments opened on August 10, 2015
FAA
Frederick Avenue Apartments opened on August 10, 2015
We are a 38 bed apartment complex in Akron, conveniently located near public transportation, 12 step meetings, probation, aftercare and additional OHI programs. We were originally staffed with 1 senior counselor/recovery coach, 5 full time and 3 part time recovery coaches. Today we are fully staffed on all 3 shifts.
18 Apartments
3 Community Rooms & Courtyard
Fully staffed with Recovery Coaches

14. Early Struggles Specific to Recovery Housing
Establishing Standards
Maintaining Standards
Developing the Staff as Recovery Coaches
Fuzzy Area of Sharing Lived Experiences and
Crossing Boundaries
Minimizing Drama and Unhealthy Behaviors

15. FAA Victories…
The first female client that completed the FAA program spoke
at our OHI Recovery Month celebration
One female client became an OHI Recovery Coach!
Alumni continue to call or stop by to talk with recovery
coaches
80% of clients have had negative UDS’s
71% of clients have successfully completed the FAA program
Our first female client began giving back while at FAA by coming into our Recovery Coach meetings. She successfully completed FAA, and recently agreed to come and speak at the OHI Recovery Month celebration. We have had one male client work through OHI programming and treatment to get to FAA, became an Alumni, and then trained as a Recovery Coach.

16. Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery
Recovery Coach Models
CCAR
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery
40 hour training provides participants a comprehensive overview of the purpose and task of a recovery coach and explains the various roles played by a recovery coach. It provides individuals with tools and resources useful in providing recovery support services and puts emphasis on the skills needed to link people in recovery to needed supports within the community that promote recovery.
Professional recovery coaches are trained in both coaching core competency and in addiction best practices such as stages of change, motivational interviewing, as well as harm reduction and more.

17. Integrated Peer Supporter
40-hour, in-person, peer-services training of individuals in recovery with a direct lived experience of mental health and/or substance use disorders The integrated peer support curriculum was funded through a SAMHSA grant in an effort to promote the widespread adoption of recovery-oriented supports, services and systems for people in recovery from mental health and/or substance use disorders. At the time of its development, few states had a curriculum that was designed to train individuals with both mental health and substance use disorders.

18. Differences between the models
CCAR is addiction focused only
CCAR model does not exclude those without a lived experience

19. A Blended Approach
Recovery Coaching, [various models] and Clinical Staff Working Together

20. Why is it Necessary?
Treatment is needed to stop the cycle of addiction. Recovery Coaching helps
sustain abstinence
Treatment is short term and skill building. Recovery Coaching is reinforcing skills learned in treatment
Treatment is where you develop recovery and relapse avoidance plans. Recovery Coaching is walking out those plans
Treatment uses Evidence-Based Curriculum. Recovery Coaching is sharing lived experiences while walking alongside clients

21. Recovery Coaches/Peer Supporters
themselves are only a “few” steps ahead
of the clients they are working with
Direction vs. Interventions
Recovery Tool Chest
(Many Pathways to Recovery)

22. Why is the Blended Approach Successful at OHI?
Clear and specific job descriptions
Caseworkers, Counselors, Recovery
Coaches and Probation all work as a team
with clear understanding of roles
Treatment Counselors and Recovery
Coaches value each other’s specific role

23. Organizational Culture Change Can Help Organizations Thrive
In the current model of Peer Support training Manual Appendice, Steve Harrington writes:
“Organizations typically fear adoption of a recovery culture because it means a true paradigm shift, which means change.”
OHI adopted and embraced these changes.

24. Questions?