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Recovery Coach Academy
A Recovery Coach promotes recovery and removes barriers and obstacles to recovery, serving as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking or already in recovery from an addiction to alcohol and or other drugs.
What distinguishes a coach from other peer positions is that we understand where the individual is coming from because we have been there but we also provide support for people in recovery as a peer from an addiction to alcohol and or other drugs.
ABOUT THE RCA
The CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© was conceived in 2008 in response to the needs of volunteers in the CCAR Recovery Community Centers. They asked for more training to better handle the variety of scenarios and situations generated from recoverees who frequented the centers. This included engagement and communication skills. When graduates returned from the academy, they started calling themselves “Recovery Coaches”.
Date: April 22-26
Recovery Cafe Lowell
20 Williams St., - Lowell, MA
To learn more about the Recovery Coach Academy, click here. To register for any of the Recovery Coach Training, click here.
Ethical Considerations
The issue of ethical considerations has been discussed in many circles yet formal training has been lacking for recovery coaches. This 16-hour training addresses this critical need. Based on the widely used Ethical Guidelines for the Delivery of Peer-based Recovery Support Services by William White and PRO-ACT (2007), we designed this training to help coaches, and anyone else working in the peer role, to understand how critical it is to be ethically responsible. Using presentations, small group work, and role-play to address many areas including defining the coaching service role and functions, coaching standards, issues of vulnerability, ethical decision making, performance enhancement and legal issues. This year we have added an additional half-day of training, to allow for more opportunities to practice using relevant scenarios coaches may face on a daily basis.
PARTICIPANTS WHO COMPLETE THIS TRAINING WILL:
● Understand what ethics are and why ethics are so important when performing Recovery Coach Services
● Learn how to stay in your lane as a recovery coach
● Understand the decision-making process
● Develop guidelines for making ethical decisions
● Apply the new learning to your everyday work as a Recovery Coach
We will be hosting this live/in-person
Date: TBA
Mental Health First Aid
Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.
Topics Covered:
● Depression and mood disorders
● Anxiety disorders
● Trauma
● Psychosis
● Substance Use disorder
Mental Health First Aid teaches about recovery and resiliency – the belief that individuals experiencing these challenges can and do get better, and use their strengths to stay well.
For more information about Mental Health First Aid, please visit: https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/about/
Date: TBA
