Recovery Coach Resources
This page is both for and about Recovery Coaches. There are resources for recovery coaches, including links to William White’s prose, cultural competency, and racial equity sites and articles, as well as the Massachusetts Recovery Coach Hub.
Probably more importantly, are links to the Recovery Role Matrix, Peer Support Worker Comparison Chart, AA’s Chapter 10: To the Employer, WIlliam White’s comparison of Coaches and Sponsors, and the Peer Support Toolkit, that is specifically designed to help agencies to recruit, retain, and effectively deploy people in recovery in a variety of peer support roles and provides PDF tools, resources and information relevant for supervisors and peer staff. All good resources for both Recovery Coaches as well as for, and more importantly, organizations that employ and deploy Recovery Coaches.
Theory, Implementation, and Practice
A report by William L. White, MA and the PROACT Ethics Workgroup.
This site contains the full text of more than 300 articles, 8 monographs, 30+ recovery tools, 9 book chapters, 3 books, and links to an additional 18 books written by William White and co-authors over the past four decades as well as more than 100 interviews with addiction treatment and recovery leaders.
Also of interest:
Recovery Coach Guidelines
By Richard Zombeck
Suggestions for Clinical Integration of Recovery Coaches - By Richard Zombeck
Recovery Coaching by AI
By Richard Zombeck
AI’s response to what Recovery Coaching is what recovery coaches do. It’s hopefully a useful document to convince even the most ardent skeptics.
A comparison of the different Peer Support roles published by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, February 27, 2019.
Tools in this kit are designed to help agencies to recruit, retain, and effectively deploy people in recovery in a variety of peer support roles and provides PDF tools, resources and information relevant for supervisors and peer staff.
RECOVERY COACHING PRACTICE GUIDELINES
By the Montgomery County, PA, Office of Mental Health
The Recovery Coach: ROLE CLARITY MATRIX, a paper by Alida Schuyler, MS, PCC, Jan Brown, BA, MRLC, and William White, MA.
Sponsor, Recovery Coach, Addiction Counselor:
The Importance of Role Clarity and Role Integrity by
William L. White
An overview and comparison of Recovery Coaches and AA or other 12 step sponsors.
Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support: History, Theory, Practice, and Scientific Evaluation
The core functions of peer staff in treatment settings are described in this article.
Chapter 10: To the Employer
From AA’s Big Book, a chapter to the employers of alcoholics and addicts
Peers Supporting
Recovery
from Substance
Use Disorders
Two-page overview PDF of Recovery Coach Services.
Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) Resource Guide
SAMHSA Guide and Resources of ROSC
More on ROSC can also be found at the following links:
Coaching Tools and Resources
Cultural Competency in Mental Health Peer-run Programs and Self-help Groups: A Tool to Assess and Enhance your Services.
Guide on Multiple Pathways of Recovery
Facing Addiction with NCADD is dedicated to turning the tide on America’s addiction epidemic, unifying the voices of the 45 million American families directly affected by substance use disorders.
Racial Equity Tools offer tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.
Recovery Coach Hub
Training, Resources, community. Access to the website requires registration and login.
Peer Recovery Center of Excellence
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence exists to enhance the field of peer recovery support services. Led by those with lived experience, Peer voice is at the core of our work and guides our mission.
The ADA, Addiction, Recovery, and Employment
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) addresses addiction to alcohol, illegal drugs, and the unlawful use of legal drugs in each stage of employment.
Self-Care Starter Kit
University of Buffalo School of Social Work
Also form the University of Buffalo, in addition to the above link, some additional content in respect to self-care is available below:
Reports and Studies
REPORT OF FINDINGS FROM A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE
SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON
RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES IN THE UNITED STATES
Recovery Research Institute
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02114 - August 2017
RIZE Reports
Click links below to open reports
Recovery Coaches in Opioid Use Disorder Care - Dec. 2018
Inpatient addiction consult services in Massachusetts - Feb, 2024
