Welcome to March - March is Women's History Month!
This event aims to bring together voices from around the world to amplify women's experiences and achievements in recovery advocacy.
Our Collective Focus
Together, we can increase awareness about women’s recovery and celebrate together. Let’s join together to enhance:
- Local Impact: Expanding our reach to include live events at local communities, with this year’s LIVE EVENT being announced soon.
- Community Participation: Encouraging women to share their stories through our new submission process starting at the end of January.
- Calls to Action: Building on previous events to inspire actionable steps for community involvement.
- Stigma Reduction: Facilitating evidence-based activities to reduce stigma and foster personal connections with those with lived recovery experiences
Participate in a virtual 3-part forum series on Emerging Adult (EA) recovery support services! The event, hosted by the Justice-Involved and Emerging Adult Populations (JEAP) Initiative and the Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR), is open to everyone and aims to spark meaningful conversations. Part 1 has already passed, but be sure to register and sign up for parts 2 and 3 today! Exciting Upcoming Forum Series:
The Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR) and the Justice-involved and Emerging Adult Populations (JEAP) Initiative invite you to join them for an engaging virtual forum series, "What’s Emergent in Emerging Adult Recovery Support Services Research?" focused on Emerging Adult Recovery Support Services.
About the Forum Series:
Emerging adults aged 16–25 face heightened risks of opioid use disorder (OUD) and fentanyl-related overdoses. Although medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are effective for long-term management, emerging adults often encounter significant challenges, including unmet needs in employment, housing, and social support. These difficulties are further combined with life transitions, such as establishing independence, pursuing vocational growth, and fostering stable relationships, along with risks of high rates of co-occurring mental health issues and polysubstance use, which can complicate recovery efforts. Despite these challenges, very few research studies have specifically addressed the unique recovery needs of this population. That’s why the Collaborative Hub for Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR) and the Justice-involved and Emerging Adult Populations (JEAP) Initiative have been working together to provide opportunities for collaborative conversations and community-engaged research that focus on the unique needs of emerging adults.
Why Attend?
This forum series provides a unique platform for meaningful dialogue about how to best support EAs in their recovery journeys. You'll have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with experts, young adults with lived experience, and researchers.
What to Expect:
Part 1 (February 6th): A comprehensive discussion on key care principles for emerging adults recovery based on an in-depth article review.
Part 2 (March 6th): A dynamic panel discussion featuring emerging adults sharing personal recovery experiences and insights.
Part 3 ( April 10th): Presentations by leading recovery scientists highlighting the latest research and innovative strategies for supporting EA recovery.
Don’t Miss Out!
To be part of this vital conversation, you can Register for the event: CHEARR/JEAP Forum Series Registration
Rebuilding the clinical and public health infrastructure for our nation’s youth
Please join us for the 2025 Joint Meeting on Youth Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery, which will be held from March 18-20, 2025, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore, MD. This event aims to promote and improve substance use prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery efforts among children, adolescents, and emerging adults.
The annual Pathways to Wellness Recidivism Reduction Initiative Forum will be fully integrated into the prevention, treatment, and recovery tracks of the conference and will provide avenues of culturally responsive information to share among all conference participants interested in improving the wellbeing of Native communities and beyond.
The 2024 Joint Meeting on Youth Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery brought together people from around the country in what was the first such national conference to take place in over a decade. Our inaugural Joint Meeting had 445 delegates spanning 6 countries, 31 Tribal nations, and 38 U.S. states and featured 129 presentations, showing the widespread national dedication to our mission of bringing youth back to the top of our nation’s prevention, treatment, and recovery substance use agenda.
Returning in 2025, this conference will continue to provide a dynamic and interactive forum for the exchange of research, policy, and clinical information among researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and youth and families. Get the chance to hear from inspiring speakers, learn from insightful sessions, and engage in networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
Learn more about registration here: https://youthrecoveryanswers.org/conference-registration-2025/.
ARHE/ARS/AAPG have confirmed a room block at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, which is the official hotel for the conference.
The booking link is now available! Please click here to book your room or visit www.collegiaterecovery.org/2025conference/plan-your-experience/ for more information. You can also call the hotel directly at 1-800-395-5936. We recommend booking early as the room block will sell out!
Rooms must be booked by June 1, 2025 in order to receive the room block pricing; rooms may sell out prior to this date.
Located at Two Poydras St, New Orleans, LA 70130, United States
The Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) is conducting a workforce study among collegiate recovery professionals to gain a comprehensive understanding of the current landscape in the profession. This study aims to gather detailed data on salaries, job titles, positions within universities, responsibilities, and the scope of roles. By analyzing this information, ARHE seeks to identify trends, establish potential salary benchmarks, and provide valuable insights that can help advocate for fair compensation, support professional development, and enhance the recognition and support of collegiate recovery programs across higher education institutions. While we hoped to have collected enough data to close the survey at the end of January, we have decided to leave it open and encourage more folks to fill it out. Please participate in the survey if you haven't already in order to provide a comprehensive understanding of the current workforce.
My name is Cameron Ortega, PhD from the School of Rehabilitation Services and Counseling at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). I want to invite you to participate in my research study. The purpose of the study is to explore beliefs in substance use treatment and trauma-informed care approaches by persons who are working in collegiate recovery programs.
This research study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects (IRB) at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
To participate, you must be 18 years. You must work or volunteer in a collegiate recovery program to participate in this research. Participation in this research is voluntary; you may choose not to participate without penalty.
As a participant, you will be asked to complete an online survey, which should take about 20-30 minutes to complete. All survey responses received will be treated confidentially and stored on a secure server. However, given that the surveys can be completed from any computer (e.g., personal, work, school), there is no guarantee of the security of the computer on which you choose to enter your responses. As a participant in this study, please be aware that certain technologies exist that can be used to monitor or record data and/or websites that are visited.
If you would like to participate in this research study, please click on the survey link below and read the consent page carefully. If you would like to complete the survey, click on “I agree”. If not, simply exit the web browser or click on “I do not want to participate”.
Survey Link: https://utrgv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2oAGs2W1qSuHugC
If you have questions related to the research, please contact me by telephone at 956-665-8738 or by email at cameron.ortega@utrgv.edu.
The Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery (CYAAR) at Kennesaw State University, Georgia (USA) started the Collegiate Recovery Research Collaborative (CRRC) in 2017. The Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) is excited to now host the CRRC to allow researchers to connect, collaborate, and progress important research topics within the profession of collegiate recovery.
Currently, the CRRC meets once a month on the first Thursday of the month at 12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT. Project-specific meetings may take place outside of this time.
Assistant Director of Substance Misuse Prevention and Recovery
Location: Central Washington University Office of Health Promotion
Learn More here.
Program Manager – Collegiate Recovery
Location: University of Texas at San Antonio
Learn More here. Don't forget to send us your open listings and we will post them on our site! Submit your posting here!
The new Resource Hub has launched with the ability to search, sort, filter, and find a wide array of resources on all kinds of topics! We have created a link for folks to use to upload any existing resources they have that they would like to share with the community. Resources will be screened and sorted into the new organizational system by ARHE resource hub committee members – if you’d like to join this project working group, please reach out to Mack!
Please upload any and all resources you think would be helpful for other programs to have. Ideas of resources to add are: policies and procedures/strategic plans, budgets, event or outreach guides, grant proposals, marketing brochures, etc.
All types of media/content are welcome, such as social media graphics, webinar recordings, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs/Word Docs, and more!
SRCRA is a process that will assist CRPs to define their current programs and outline plans for moving forward, acting as a tool to help navigate the often-challenging advocacy paths within institutions of higher education.
SRCRA is a voluntary, evaluative process that includes both an internal and external review to highlight program strengths and attributes, identify areas of growth and improvement, and serve as quality assurance in order to assist programs and stakeholders in identifying and advocating for areas of continued growth and development.
