Start a Campus Recovery Program
There are a number of resources available to help you start a collegiate recovery program on your campus.
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Given the great push towards increasing student retention, a rise in the hospitalizations of our students and a nationwide opiate epidemic, school administrators have begun to see the value in collegiate recovery.
There are many ways to support your students who are in, or seeking, recovery. A great place to start is to conduct a focus group with students who are in recovery to learn what they need and how the school can better support them. Identify your recovery champions on campus by convening a group of stakeholders, and begin to form partnerships and strategize on how best to support these students.
Creating a student organization is a viable means of beginning the process to establishing a formal Collegiate Recovery Program (CRP). A recovery focused student organization can be an easy solution to begin mobilizing students in recovery and identifying their needs. By identifying students in recovery that are ready and willing to spearhead the creation of a registered student organization, a recovery community will form and become the foundation of a CRP.
There are a number of resources available to help you start a collegiate recovery program.
- The Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) is the only association exclusively representing collegiate recovery programs (CRP) and communities (CRC), the faculty and staff who support them and the students who represent them. ARHE provides the education, resources and community connection needed to help change the trajectory of recovering students’ lives.
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Transforming Youth Recovery, created by The Stacie Mathewson Foundation, supports educators, parents and community members in helping students in recovery thrive in the fullness of everyday life.Their vision is to transform youth recovery—one community, one school, one student at a time.
- “A New Campus Culture: The Rise and Success of Collegiate Recovery Programs”
- Transforming Youth Recovery’s 2015 Collegiate Recovery Asset Survey Monitor updates studies undertaken to identify community assets that can help students in recovery to thrive in the fullness of the college experience.
- Texas Tech Replication Curriculum
Starting a recovery program for your campus can be challenging on your own. That’s why we provide guidance and technical assistance to campus professionals on how to support and implement recovery programs for college students. We are available to share what we have learned through our experiences in starting Ohio State’s Collegiate Recovery Community. Contact us today to see how we can help your institution invest in recovery!
