The thirty-hour Recovery Coach training is for individuals in sustained recovery themselves or family members in recovery who want to become a personal guide and mentor for people seeking or already in recovery.
Recovery Coaching is a peer-based recovery support service that is non-clinical and designed to engage others beyond recovery initiation through stabilization and into recovery maintenance. Similar peer interventions in clinical settings have been shown to improve engagement and retention of people seeking services. It is also known that long-term treatment and/or recovery outcomes are improved by assertive linkages to community-based recovery supports such as Recovery Coaching.
Recovery Coaches:
- Help to initiate and sustain an individual/family in their recovery from substance use disorder or addiction.
- Promote recovery by removing barriers and obstacles to recovery
- Serve as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking, or already in recovery.
Participants will receive a Recovery Coach Certificate and a Standardized OASAS Certificate of completion applicable for OASAS CASAC, CPP and CPS Credit upon completion of the training. No certificates will be issued for partial completion.
The application for participation in this training (attached) requires the submission of a brief candidate plan providing the following information:
- Briefly describe your experience with addiction recovery;
- Briefly describe your history of sustained recovery;
- Explain why you are interested in Recovery Coach training;
- How do you think Recovery Coaching can benefit others? What do you think peer coaches may guide others to achieve, e.g. to assist in accessing mutual assisted recovery support; assist in engaging recoverees in exploring wellness opportunities, etc.
Optional Training of Trainers
The TOT is an additional 1 ½ hours after the completion of each full day’s training plus an additional 4 hours at a later time to be determined.
Those wishing to take the TOT also must submit a description of their training skills and experience plus how and where they plan to offer the Recovery Coach Academy.