Recovery Coach Training

Are you interested in learning more about recovery and/or becoming a recovery coach? PRCC offers CCAR (Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery) certified Recovery Coach Academy trainings throughout the state of Maine.

What is Recovery Coaching?

Recovery Coaching is an innovative peer-to-peer support service that helps individuals in recovery identify their own unique pathway to a joyful life. By providing a framework for setting goals, recovery coaches meet recoverees where they are at, connecting the recovering person with community-based services and resources so that the recoveree is empowered to recover.

What is Recovery Coaching Basics?

  • Recovery Coaching Basics is a 6-hour, virtual, introduction to the core concepts and tools utilized in the Recovery Coach Academy. All are welcome to attend, including those who do not intend on utilizing the Recovery Coaching training in a professional capacity.

 

  • It is strongly encouraged to first attend the Recovery Coaching Basics training before going on to take the 30-hour Recovery Coach Academy. This helps provide some insight and preparation into the nature of the program, its uses, and increase readiness for a more advanced training program.

 

  • There is no application or prerequisite required to attend the Recovery Coaching Basics, and is open to those in recovery, recovery-curious, affected others, and allies of the recovery community.

What is Recovery Coach Academy?

  • Recovery Coach Academy is an immersive 5-day virtual training designed to enhance personal growth and prepare individuals to become active Recovery Coaches within their communities.
  • The Academy is free to Maine residents with the expectation that they will learn valuable skills and tools to enhance personal recovery, as well as provide specialized training for those entering the peer support fields.
  • Because of growing popularity, and limited space, RCA Facilitators must prioritize participants who are preparing to enter the peer support work/volunteer field.
  • The Recovery Coach Academy itself does not guarantee you will be ready to become an active Recovery Coach. Once the RCA is completed, you are encouraged to connect with your local Recovery Community Center to apply to volunteer. It is highly recommended that those who have completed the RCA connect with an organization for supervision, support, and continued development.
  • In an effort to encourage more individuals to become Recovery Coaches in Recovery Community Centers, please contact your local RCC for more information on coaching opportunities, conditions, and limitations.

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Recovery coaches are not therapists, counselors, clinicians, clergy or 12 step sponsors.
They occupy a very unique and distinct lane on the recovery highway.

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

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Ethics trainings are not all created equal.

Recovery Coaches need an understanding of ethics that differs from those of clinicians due to their unique role while guiding someone through their own recovery process. Recovery coaching as a peer-to-peer recovery support services has grown exponentially over the past few years. 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), CCAR 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.

Please note that completion of Recovery Coach Academy is a pre-requisite for Ethical Considerations.

COACHERVISION

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Recovery coaching is growing as a profession due to its effectiveness

in not only helping people find recovery, but staying in recovery. We see coaches deployed in a wide variety of settings and as such, coaches are supervised by a wide range of positions…and not everyone who is overseeing the coaches understands fully the unique nature of the role. In many cases, we see Peer Supervision models as an attempt that does not truly align with the recovery coaching model? We hope you will join us for what we believe is a model for oversight that resonates most with the role of the coach – aptly named, Coachervision. Based on the concept of “coaching coaches”, this CCAR workshop will provide participants with an understanding of how to best support coaches day-to-day and develop coaches for long-term success.

RECOVERY COACH ACADEMY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

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This training was developed to enhance the skills of young people supporting other young people on their recovery journey. Designed for young people aged between 18-26 in supporting their peers on their recovery journey. A 5-day intensive training academy focusing on providing young people with the skills needed to guide, mentor, and support those who would like to enter into or sustain long-term recovery from an addiction to alcohol or other drugs.

SPIRITUALITY & RECOVERY COACHING

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The purpose of this program is to help recovery coaches understand what spirituality is and how you would help someone in their own process of discovering spirituality. This two day course will help you explore your own beliefs and values as it comes to spirituality.

COACHING IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS

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Emergency Departments now recognize that Recovery Coaches can make a difference

in this high paced setting by connecting those that are present in the ED to pathways of recovery that can be sustained in the long term. Recovery Coaching continues to gain momentum throughout the country, and with good reason. Recovery Coaches can, and do, connect people to long term and sustained recovery. Because of this, more and more, coaches are being utilized in a variety of settings, including doctors’ offices, police stations, drug courts, treatment centers, and most notably Emergency Departments. The need for skilled coaches who can easily adapt and work in a fast-paced ED setting is growing exponentially. As providers of the CT ED Recovery Coaches program, we have learned a great deal about the different training needs of those who choose to serve in this unique role. This CCAR course prepares participants for the challenging and rewarding role of a Recovery Coach in the Emergency Department.

Please note that completion of Recovery Coach Academy is a pre-requisite for Recovery Coaching in the Emergency Department.

RECOVERY COACHING & PROFESSIONALISM

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CCAR is dedicated to building training programs, so that coaches are able to regularly refine their craft of actively listening, asking good questions, and managing their own stuff. With a greater need for skilled coaches to work in other professional settings, CCAR has developed what we think will be a highly utilized and sought after training program for recovery coaches looking to work or are working within professional settings.

Maine Recovery Coach Certification Board

The Maine Recovery Coach Certification Board (MRCCB) was formed in 2021 to standardize and promote best practice qualifications for Peer Recovery Coaches in Maine by defining and maintaining the highest standards of professional practice and ethics across volunteer and employment capacities.

As of January 1, 2022, all registration and certification information can be found on the Maine Recovery Coach Certification Board (MRCCB) website. The website includes details on how to become a Registered or Certified Peer Recovery Coach, view credentials, find training resources, and more.

If your organization is hiring recovery coaches in Maine, it is highly recommended to hire registered or certified coaches. Verify Credential Here.

If you have questions or need further information, contact info@peerrecoverycoachme.org.