Recovery Coaching

The Connecticut Community on Addiction Recovery

Recovery Coach Academy

The CCAR Model
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 help sustain recovery

Learning Objectives for the CCAR 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
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 examins 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.