This 60-hour training provides all of the educational requirements to qualify for certification as an Addictions Recovery Coach (CARC).
Classes taught by Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Certified instructors.
Spring Session 2024: Registration Is Open
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Program Includes:
Recovery Coach Academy (30 CEUs)
The Recovery Coach Academy is a 5-day/30 hour intensive training academy focusing on providing individuals with the skills needed to guide, mentor and support anyone who would like to enter into or sustain long-term recovery from an addiction to alcohol or other drugs. This curriculum was developed by the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) and the course is taught by CCAR Certified Instructors.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe Recovery Coach role and functions
- List the components, core values and guiding principles of recovery
- Build skills to enhance relationships
- Explore many dimensions of recovery of recovery and recovery coaching
- Discover attitudes about self-disclosure and sharing one’s story
- Understand the stages of recovery
- Describe the stages of change and their applications
- Increase their awareness of culture, power and privilege
- Address ethical and boundaries issues
- Experience recovery wellness planning
- Practice newly acquired skills
Ethical Considerations for Recovery Coaches (16 CEUs)
Ethical Considerations for Recovery Coaches is a 3-Day/16 hour training that addresses many areas including: defining the coaching service role and functions, coaching standards, issues of vulnerability, ethical decision making, performance enhancement and legal issues. This course will help Recovery Coaches maintain good boundaries when serving others. This curriculum was developed by the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) and the course is taught by CCAR Certified Instructors.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- 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 ever day work as a Recovery Coach
Addictions 101 (5 CEUs)
Addictions 101 is a 5-hour class that provides an introduction to addiction and recovery that is tailored to the role of the Recovery Coach. Students will learn about models of addiction, the effects of substances on the brain and body, identifying signs and symptoms of addiction to substances, behavioral addictions, and options for support and treatment. This interactive class will support Recovery Coaches in challenging personal biases and fighting against the stigma of addiction.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- List a range of commonly used illicit, prescribed and over-the-counter substances and the impact on the brain and body
- Describe the risk factors, criteria, signs, and symptoms of substance use disorder
- Identify the spectrum of treatment modalities and recovery pathways to help people with substance use disorders and behavioral addictions
- Learn about common behavioral addictions and types of treatment and support groups available
- Gain understanding of how bias and stigma impact individuals with addictions
Cultural Competency (3 CEUs)
Cultural Competency for Recovery Coaches is a 3-hour training designed to help students provide a framework and strategies to provide culturally responsive recovery coaching. Embracing cultural responsiveness and developing cultural competency is essential to understanding recoverees’ experiences and building strong, supportive relationships. In this course, participants will learn to examine personal biases, adopt a stance of cultural humility, and develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge, and behaviors to provide culturally competent recovery coaching.
Objectives:
- Increase cultural competence and develop the skills needed to provide culturally responsive recovery coaching
- Define cultural humility, cultural responsivity, and cultural competence
- Gain understanding of cultural perspectives on substance use and multiple paths to recovery
- Identify the dynamics and impact of oppression: individual, institutional, and internalized
- Learn practical skills and techniques (such as the A.S.K. model and patient explanatory model) to provide culturally competent recovery coaching
Motivational Interviewing (3 CEUs)
Motivational Interviewing for Recovery Coaches is a 3-hour training designed to provide an introduction to Motivational Interviewing that is tailored to the non-clinical role of the Recovery Coach. Students will learn to embrace the spirit of MI and use this collaborative, person-centered approach to enhance motivation and elicit “change talk” in recoverees.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Articulate the five principles of motivational interviewing
- Practice the four assumptions that reflect the spirit of Motivational Interviewing
- Demonstrate understanding of the Stages of Readiness for Change
- Explore how Motivational Interviewing can be used within the non-clinical role of a Recovery Coach
- Apply O.A.R.S. skills to elicit change talk
Mental Health (3 CEUs)
Mental Health for Recovery Coaches is a 3-hour training designed to prepare Recovery Coaches to provide non-clinical support for recoverees living with mental health challenges. Participants will learn to recognize signs and symptoms of common mental health challenges, and how to provide recovery coaching to support mental wellness in a recoveree-centered, trauma-informed manner. Participants will examine personal and societal biases about mental illness and learn about the negative impact of stigma and how stigma can be challenged and reduced.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of common mental health issues experienced by recoverees
- Identify strategies to support a recoveree experiencing mental health challenges
- Learn the skills to interact with recoverees in a trauma-informed manner
- Understand the negative impact of stigma and how Recovery Coaches can either perpetuate or reduce stigma by examining personal biases, educating others, and engaging in advocacy
- Demonstrate understanding of the non-clinical role of the Recovery Coach in providing support for recoverees experiencing symptoms of mental illness
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