OUR TRAININGS

1. The CCAR RECOVERY COACH ACADEMY © - 30 HOURS

Is a 5-day 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. Provided in a retreat like environment, the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© prepares participants by helping them to actively listen, ask really good questions, and discover and manage their own stuff.

CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© participants will:

• 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 and recovery coaching
• Discover attitudes about self disclosure and sharing your 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

2. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR RECOVERY COACHES © – 16 HOURS

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), we designed this training to help coaches, and anyone else working in the peer role, to understand how critical it is to be ethically responsible. Through the use of presentations, small group work, and role play many areas are addressed 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.

PARTICIPANTS WHO COMPLETE THIS TRAINING WILL:
• 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 every day work as a RC

3. SPIRITUALITY FOR RECOVERY COACHES © - 12 HOURS

Got Spirituality? Spirituality is not only a deeply personal subject, it is often a large component of recovery. So, how do you guide someone through their own process while managing your own stuff?
The purpose of this program is to help you as a recovery coach 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. This training will provide you with the tools and resources needed as a recovery coach so you can speak about spirituality in a way that is accepting of others.

Just like the RCA, this training is going to challenge you in a way that helps to promote your own understanding of spirituality. We believe that spirituality plays a large part in recovery and hope that by completing this course, you will be able to help those you serve understand, accept and embrace spirituality for themselves.

PARTICIPANTS IN THIS COURSE WILL:
• Define spirituality.
• Explore personal beliefs and values as it comes to spirituality.
• Discover how to work with others whose spiritual beliefs may be different than yours.
Learn about the tools, resources, and language needed for a recovery coach to address spirituality in a way that is inclusive.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A PROFESSIONAL RECOVERY COACH?

Now that recovery coaches are being recognized as having such a profound impact in recovery, many more organizations are looking to hire coaches. Coaches that can easily demonstrate a high level of professionalism may easily assimilate into these new exciting employment opportunities.

CART is dedicated to building training programs to support this movement, so that coaches are able to regularly refine their craft of actively listening, asking good questions and managing their own stuff. Because of these high standards of excellence for our training programs and expectations of what we feel make good Recovery Coaches, CART is constantly asked to help agencies looking to employ CCAR trained Recovery Coaches. However, the landscape of where those roles are available has changed. Typically you’d find Recovery Coaches at your local recovery community centers, but now we are seeing a greater need for skilled coaches to work in other professional settings, such as hospitals, treatment facilities, police stations and court systems. In response to the demand, CART 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.
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS TRAINING WILL:
• Define professionalism as it pertains to recovery coaching;
• Learn about and develop the various characteristics that a professional possesses;
• Understand their personal accountabilities in their role as recovery coaches;
• Learn the importance of the concept “stay in their lane” when it comes to working in a large system,

like a hospital, court and/or treatment system;
• Reexamine the roles of a recovery coach in order to maintain good boundaries when working in

professional settings;
Have opportunities to practice and demonstrate newly acquired skills.

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