Approved Trainings for the CCAR RCP Designation
The CCAR RCP Designation requires a total of 60 hours of training, including the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy (30 hours) and CCAR Ethical Considerations for Recovery Coaches (16 Hours). While you can use a combination of our other CCAR Training offerings to make up the additional 14 hours, the following programs have also been approved for the additional 14 hours necessary to gain the CCAR RCP Designation:
In this 18-hour training program, hosted by Addictions Training Academy, participants will:
Establish an understanding of the 6 principles of trauma-informed care
Learn skills to manage their own triggers and past experiences when something comes up when serving clients/peers
Demonstrate what trauma-responsive support is in terms of a coaching role
Gain knowledge and an understanding of how Trauma Informed Care can help co-regulate coaching sessions
Please email Candace Alley for more information, or to register.
Upon completion of this program, Participants will be able to:
Explore their personal challenges with ethics
Identify challenges in their current professional environment
Be introduced to Core Ethical Concepts through a relational framework
Review personal as well as organizational ethical approaches in relation to their work
Apply a relational behavioral ethical approach in their personal and professional lives
Practice ethical leadership in a supportive environment
To register, visit, https://www.choicerecoverycoaching.org/book-online For questions, email, recovery@choicerecoverycoaching.org
Healing Centered Engagement for Peers & Coaches, offered by Jesse Heffernan and Helios Recovery Services provides 3 hours of training.
Participants will:
Understand key differences between a healing-centered & trauma-informed approach to care;
Identify 3 ways to address root causes of trauma in communities;
Identify 3 ways to improve strategies and outcomes with recoverees using HCE;
For more information, or to register, email jheffernan@heliosrecovery.com
Infinite Pathways of Recovery, offered by Meghann Perry and Choice Recovery Coaching provides 6 hours of training.
Participants will:
Identify the specific components that encompass individuals’ needs;
Understand how culture can impact individuals’ recovery pathways;
Discover where existing pathways meet individuals’ needs, or leave gaps;
Explore how to cultivate and design personal pathways for self and others;
Explore the stages of recovery in order to identify potential pathways; and
Practice implementing learned concepts in the creation of infinite pathways of recovery.
To register, visit, https://www.choicerecoverycoaching.org/book-online For questions, email, recovery@choicerecoverycoaching.org
Participants will:
Understand and apply servant leadership values & competencies;
Develop servant leadership / EQ evaluation for staff and recoverees;
Know the 7 aspects of Recovery Leadership.
For more information, or to register, email jheffernan@heliosrecovery.com
Motivational Interviewing: 3rd Edition for Recovery Coaches, offered by Lisa Hope and Prepared Training provides 4 hours of training.
Participants will:
Demonstrate the skills-rated by observer;
Develop 3 statements for each skill;
Create 2 measurable indicators for recoverees success by treating them as a resource;
Develop 1 concrete, individualized statement to avoid self-disclosure;
Develop 2 strategies for managing self-disclosure as a short cut.
For more information, or to register, email greyrecovery@gmail.com
Graduates of the CCAR's Recovery Coach Academy, or equivalent, can apply to be part of this online, mentorship training.
In this course, we will be covering the following topics:
- Initial consultation
- Value of the intake form
- The coaching agreement
- Establishing empathy
- Negotiating a change plan
- First meeting with a client
- Ethical considerations
- Reflective listening
- Recognizing readiness for change
- Managing your own stuff
- Getting your first client
- Building a resources toolbox
- Self care
- Boundaries
- Cognitive dissonance
EXERCISES:
- Motivational interviewing
- Setting smart goals
- OARS
- Developing a business plan
- Real life experiences
For more information and to register for this training, please contact Kevin Diakiw at kevin@still-here.ca
Participants will:
- Practice recovery wellness planning
- Develop the knowledge to become a local resource broker
- Describe and model design thinking
- Practice mindful listening and implement it in recovery coaching
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of business development in recovery coaching
For more information and to register for this training, please contact Kevin Diakiw at kevin@still-here.ca
Upon completion of this program, Participants will be able to:
• Discuss their relationship to storytelling and its role in their work.
• Evaluate the impact of culture on story sharing and listening.
• Define their personal culture of storytelling and recognize how their stories are perceived by others.
• Articulate how to best select and shape personal stories to achieve specific goals.
• Apply Recovery Coach Roles and Recovery Values to story sharing.
• Practice story creation using new perspectives within a recovery support context.
To register for this training, visit https://www.meghannperry.com/course-registration. For questions, please contact Meghann Perry at meghann@meghannperry.com
The UConn Recovery Community's Recovery Ally Training is a two-hour training program where participants learn how to be a person someone can reach out to when they are struggling to achieve or maintain their recovery.
You will learn the following:
- Understand the complex nature of addiction as a disease and that substance use disorders often cannot be resolved by the individual choosing to stop.
- Confront the myths and stigma regarding addiction and recovery and how its negative impact deters individuals from seeking support.
- Use empathetic language and effectively listen when a person chooses to honor you by disclosing that they are struggling with substance use.
- Define and understand that recovery is a lifetime journey with multiple pathways to achieving wellness in recovery.
- Know available recovery support resources that are on and off-campus and how to access them.
Contact urc@uconn.edu for more information.
Upon completion of this program, Participants will be able to:
*Define Harm Reduction
*Gain an understanding of what harm reduction is and is not
*Learn how to manage our own biases about harm reduction
*Gain an understanding of how Recovery Coaches allow individuals the voice and choice to choose their own harm reduction pathway to recovery
For more information and to register for this training, please contact Candace Alley at candace_alley@icloud.com
Motivational Interviewing Course - Being offered April 21, 2023
Hours: 5 hours
Title of Class: Motivational Interviewing
Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this training will:
- Build skills to enhance communication
- Describe MI
- List the different listening types in MI
- Develop an understanding of OARS
- Learn to recognize when change talk is happening
- Practice newly acquired skills
How to register: https://www.dolanacademy.com/offers/m4VaXezv