Ruth Riddick

Education is an integral part of any recovery pathway. Good preparation makes for good personal and professional practice.

For more than two decades, CCAR has been authorizing individuals nationwide and abroad to deliver the Recovery Coach Academy, an education program offering three significant benefits: (a) Thirty hours exploring RECOVERY, an experiential value appreciated in any setting from in-treatment through recovery community organizations; (b) Theory and practice in three fundamental communications skills valuable for everyone active listening, asking good questions, discovering and managing your own stuff; and (c) Originally a distant third but now critically important for many, training credits towards third-party role certification in the behavioral health field where formal credentialing is required for Medicaid-billing.

In this presentation/workshop, which builds interactively on participant experience and values, we will explore the purpose and process of delivering recovery education. Using the CCAR RCA as an example, we will show how teaching, training, and facilitating all play roles in meeting the promised benefits, including that of the original tagline, "Transformed People Transform People."