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This Department of Labor website provides information and a comprehensive toolkit, plus state and local resources, to expand employment opportunities for people in or seeking recovery.
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This web page provides an overview of substance use and strategies that employers can use to develop a recovery ready program at their workplace.
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This report provides background history of the development of Peer Recovery (PR), including an overview of the current landscape of PR Programs.
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The SAMHSA Harm Reduction Framework is the first document to comprehensively outline harm reduction and its role within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Framework will inform SAMHSA's harm reduction activities moving forward, as well as related policies, programs, and practices.
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This web page offers strategies that employers can use to develop a recovery ready program at their workplace.
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This report explores the use of the Value-Based Payment model and potential to improve delivery of integrated and coordinated substance use disorder treatment services.
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This toolkit provides guidance and resources for private and public sector employers.
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SAMHSA collaborated with federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local partners including peer specialists to develop the National Model Standards for Peer Support Certification, inclusive of substance use, mental health, and family peer certifications. These National Model Standards closely align with the needs of the behavioral health (peer) workforce, and subsequently, the over-arching goal of the national mental health strategy.
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These guidelines support learning about key aspects, functions, and uses of peer support services in recovery from problematic substance use.
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This web page offers a library of peer recovery support resources.
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This online course offers ways to think about adopting and integrating peer recovery support services into criminal justice settings, by identifying essential elements of comprehensive programs, essential integration processes, key program design factors, and drivers of success.
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This publication contains peer support implementation tools, including a start-up checklist and sample job descriptions.
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This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) reviews the use of the three Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications used to treat OUD methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine and the other strategies and services needed to support recovery for people with OUD.
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Provides guidance in utilizing group therapy in the treatment of substance use disorders.
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TIP 61 provides behavioral health professionals with practical guidance about Native American history, historical trauma, and critical cultural perspectives in their work with American Indian and Alaska Native clients.
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Peer workers are emerging as important members of treatment teams. Help supervisors understand how to supervise peer workers in behavioral health services:
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This four-part webcast series educates healthcare professionals about the importance of using approaches that are free of discriminatory attitudes and behaviors in treating individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and related conditions, as well as patients living their lives in recovery.
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Graphic defining peer support, the role of peer workers, and outlining emerging research on the efficacy of peer support.
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An evidence-based guide to help people living with mental or substance use disorders tell their personal stories of recovery in a digital format.
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In 2015, SAMHSA led an effort to identify the critical knowledge, skills, and abilities leading to Core Competencies needed for peer workers in behavioral health services.
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This policy brief provides clear guidance regarding the expected and effective operation of the subset of the Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD)-funded recovery housing programs in order to strengthen performance and improve the achievement of outcomes by these programs.