Recovery Professional Program

The Recovery Professional Program consists of the following: 

• Recovery Professional Introduction
• CCAR Recovery Coach Academy
• CCAR Ethical Considerations
• CCAR Spirituality for Recovery Coaches

Cost: $1350

This recovery professional training provides an introduction to the field of recovery from substance use disorders, focusing on four professional pathways:

• Peer Support
• Community
• Clinical
• Administrative

Gain knowledge and skills related to topics including:

• Recovery industry history
• Market trends
• Key statistics
• Structure and terminology
• Population focus
• Available resources

This introduction includes a self-assessment to help you identify your strengths and interests within the substance use disorder recovery industry, with detailed information about possible career paths, education requirements, and treatment modalities.

By the end, you should understand the career paths, which path is the best fit for you, and what is required to build a successful career as a recovery coach.  

Other benefits of this recovery coach training include access to a robust resource library where you will find:

• Guides
• Workbooks
• Lists of companies hiring and their process
• Free training resources
• How to Succeed information for you and your clients

On-campus classes also feature introductions to businesses and professionals in the local recovery community.

Dive deep with this intensive training that provides you with the skills you need to guide, mentor and support anyone seeking to begin or sustain long-term recovery from an addiction to alcohol or other drugs. Provided in a retreat-like environment, the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy course teaches you to actively listen, ask excellent questions, and discover and manage your own emotions and patterns while coaching others.

As a course participant, you’ll:

• Describe the recovery coach's role and functions
• List the components, core values and guiding principles of recovery
• Build skills to enhance relationships
• Explore the many dimensions of recovery and recovery coaching
• Consider attitudes about self-disclosure and sharing your story
• Understand the stages of recovery
• Describe the stages of change and their applications
• Increase awareness of culture, power and privilege
• Address issues of ethics and boundaries
• Experience recovery wellness planning
• Practice newly acquired skills

This 16-hour training addresses the critical need for ethics training in the rapidly growing peer recovery support coach profession.

Using presentations, small group work, and role play you’ll explore subject areas and scenarios that you may face in your practice, including:

• Defining the coaching role and functions
• Coaching standards
• Issues of vulnerability
• Ethical decision-making
• Performance enhancement
• Legal issues

Once you have completed this training, you will be able to:

• Understand what ethics are
• Understand why ethics are critical to performing recovery services
• Learn how to stay in your lane as a recovery professional
• Understand the decision-making process
• Develop guidelines for making ethical decisions
• Apply the new learning to your everyday work 

This training helps you understand what spirituality is and how you would help someone in their process of discovering spirituality. Explore your own beliefs and values around spirituality and gain the tools and resources you need as a recovery professional so you can speak about spirituality in a way that accepts others with differing beliefs.

This training will challenge you and help you express your understanding of spirituality, which can play an important role in your client’s recovery. You’ll be better able to help those you serve understand, accept and embrace their spirituality

As a participant, you’ll:

• Gain an understanding of spirituality
• Explore personal beliefs and values through a spirituality lens
• Discover how to work with others who may have different spiritual beliefs
• Study the tools, resources, and language that helps a recovery professional address spirituality in an inclusive way