CCAR Recovery Coach Academy and Training of Trainers
Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego Counties (FOR-DO) is an authorized provider of the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Recovery Coach Academy (RCA) and Training of Trainers(TOT).
What is a Recovery Coach?
A Recovery Coach is defined as anyone interested in promoting recovery by removing barriers and obstacles to recovery and serving as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking or already in recovery.
Unequivocally, recovery coaches do not provide clinical services. They do, however sometimes work with people experiencing difficult emotional and physical states. As a result, the training provides participants with a basic understanding of substance use and mental disorders, crisis intervention and how to respond in crisis situations. In addition, skills and tools on effective communication, motivational enhancement strategies, recovery action planning, cultural competency and recovery ethics will be offered.
Recovery Coach Class of March 2009
Recovery Coach Class of March 2009
Who can be a Recovery Coach?
A Recovery Coach is at least eighteen years old and has successfully completed the thirty-hour Recovery Coach Academy. A minimum of one year of sustained recovery is recommended for an individual or family member in recovery.
CCAR Recovery Coach Academy
The Recovery Coach Academy (RCA) is a five-day, 30-hour training opportunity designed for those interested in serving as a recovery coach, focusing primarily on recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. The RCA is a highly interactive, personal experience that allows participants to learn the purpose, tasks and various roles of a recovery coach. The RCA provides participants tools and resources vital to providing recovery support services and develops the skills needed to link “recoverees” to the services and supports that will maintain and
This training can be offered a variety of formats to meet the needs of the participants, e.g. five consecutive full days; one full day a week for five weeks; two days one week, followed by three days a week or more later; three-hour sessions twice a week for five weeks.
Learning Objectives for the Recovery Coach Academy
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the roles and functions of a recovery coach;
- List the components, core values and guiding principles of recovery;
- Build skills to enhance relationships;
- Discuss co-occurring disorders and medicated assisted recovery;
- Describe stages of change and their applications;
- Address ethical issues;
- Experience wellness planning; and
- Practice newly acquired skills
5-Day Training Outline
Day 1 focus is to create a safe learning environment where new knowledge transfer can occur and basic assumptions and values can be challenged. Furthermore, Day One participants will get a firm foundation in terminology, role clarification and guiding principles..
Day 2 The focus of day two is to examine the optimal ways of working with people. Both knowledge acquisition and skill development in our role as recovery coaches will be accomplished.
Day 3 has a knowledge acquisition on recovery models and change models as well as a strong focus on skill development in motivating others to change
Day 4 has two distinct components: knowledge and skill development on issues of spirituality, cultural competence and ethics; and an immersion into the resources in Connecticut and how to access them.
Day 5 is primarily concerned with the actualization of becoming a recovery coach. An emphasis will also be placed on future professional development needs and responsibilities and appropriately closing a week-long academy.
CCAR Recovery Coach Training of Trainers (TOT)
To be qualified for this training, candidates for the TOT must provide evidence of training experience and a plan for using their training.
The TOT is a twelve-hour training that is offered in two formats.
- Ideally, as an integral part of the RCA. Trainees have a 1 ½ hour session at the close of each training day followed by a 4 ½ session the following day.
- For previously trained Recovery Coaches who meet the requirements for the TOT, a two-day, twelve- hour option is available for groups of at least 10 participants. This option is designed to meet the needs of regions of the state where RCAs were held prior to NYS’s ability to deliver the TOT or where additional trainers are needed.
Learning Objectives for the CCAR TOT
Participants will:
- Understand adult learning theory
- Discuss their ability to train the curriculum
- Explore and discuss their comfort with each module
- Participate in a “walk-through of the manual and discuss various components of the module
- Present a ten-minute “teach back” from the manual
- Give and receive feedback
- Understand the “mechanics” of preparing for and delivering a Recovery Coach Academy
Click here for the application, call FOR-DO 607.267.4435 or email Betty Currier, Core Trainer for the RCA and TOT: ecurrier@stny.rr.com.