Center for Addiction Recovery Training

Only Two Chances Left to Become a CCAR Recovery Coach Professional Facilitator in 2026!

Ready to take the next step in your recovery coaching journey?

CCAR is now accepting applications for the final two Recovery Coach Professional Facilitator (RCPF) trainings of 2026. As an Authorized Facilitator, you'll be certified to deliver CCAR's nationally recognized recovery coach curriculum while helping grow and strengthen the recovery workforce in your community.

Remaining 2026 Training Dates
📅 September 10–11
📅 December 14–15

🕙 10:00 AM–3:00 PM EST
💻 Live Virtual Training

Requirements:
✔ Active Recovery Coach Professional (RCP) designation
✔ Commitment to recovery-oriented, strengths-based coaching
✔ Passion for teaching and mentoring future recovery coaches

If you've been thinking about becoming an RCPF, now is the time. After these two trainings, you'll have to wait until the 2027 schedule is announced.

Apply today:
https://addictionrecoverytraining.org/becoming-a-facilitator/

Questions? Contact Michael Serrano at [email protected].

Coaching for Coaches with Phil Valentine
July 17 | Topic: Buttons

Every coach has buttons. Join Master Coach Phil Valentine for this month's Coaching for Coaches session as we explore how emotional triggers can influence our coaching relationships and how greater self-awareness helps us respond with intention instead of reaction.

Designed specifically for recovery coaches, this interactive webinar offers practical insights, meaningful discussion, and an opportunity to continue growing your coaching skills alongside peers from across the recovery community.

📅 Thursday, July 17
🕙 10:00–11:30 AM EST
💻 Live on Zoom

Attendance Options:
• Free to attend live on Zoom (no CEUs)
• $30 to receive CEUs (registration through ProTraxx required)

Register for CEUs:
https://catalog.protraxx.com/ClassDetails/448319?CustomerId=245

Attend Free via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86252897191?pwd=MdaIvQPluCLrzahu6dIwygwZKlwG2V.1
Meeting ID: 862 5289 7191
Passcode: 032696

Invest in yourself so you can continue showing up as your best for the people you serve.

💙 This article by our fearless leader, Stacy Charpentier, really hits home.

As recovery coaches, we care deeply about the people we serve. We celebrate their victories, sit with them through challenges, and sometimes carry more of their struggles than we realize. But one of the most important reminders in this piece is that recovery coaching cannot become our recovery pathway.

Our wellness can't depend on someone else's outcome. We need our own recovery, our own support systems, and our own lives outside of the work. 🌱

A thoughtful and honest reflection on boundaries, purpose, and what it takes to stay healthy while doing this incredibly meaningful work. 🤝

If you're a recovery coach, this one is worth the read. https://ccar.us/work-cannot-be-your-pathway/

🚨 New from CCAR Training: Crisis Navigation for Recovery Coaches©

Recovery coaches are often the first people someone turns to during a crisis. Whether it's a mental health challenge, relapse, overdose, housing instability, grief, relationship conflict, or another life stressor, knowing how to respond calmly, ethically, and effectively can make all the difference.

This new 10-hour training helps Recovery Coaches, Peer Recovery Support Specialists, Family Recovery Coaches, and others strengthen their ability to:

✅ Recognize warning signs and escalation
✅ Use trauma-informed and recovery-oriented crisis response strategies
✅ Apply active listening and de-escalation skills
✅ Understand mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders
✅ Support coping skills and safety planning
✅ Maintain ethical and professional boundaries
✅ Navigate documentation, follow-up, and resource connections
✅ Collaborate with families, service providers, and emergency responders

🎓 Approved by NAADAC for 10 hours of continuing education.

Upcoming Training Dates

📅 July 23–24, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST

📅 September 24–25, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST

📅 November 23–24, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST

Strengthen your ability to support individuals through some of the most challenging moments of their recovery journey while staying within the scope of peer recovery support.

👉 Register today! https://addictionrecoverytraining.org/register-today/

✨ What role does spirituality play in recovery? ✨

As recovery coaches, we often support people as they search for meaning, purpose, connection, and hope. But how do we have those conversations in a way that is respectful, inclusive, and person-centered?

Join us for Spirituality and Recovery Coaching©, a two-day virtual training designed to help recovery coaches better understand spirituality, explore their own beliefs and values, and develop practical tools for supporting others on their unique recovery journeys.

💙 Benefits for Recovery Coaches:
✔ Explore the role spirituality can play in recovery
✔ Increase confidence discussing spirituality with those you serve
✔ Learn how to support diverse beliefs and worldviews
✔ Gain tools and resources you can use immediately
✔ Earn NAADAC-approved continuing education hours

📅 June 29–30, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM–2:00 PM ET
💻 Virtual Classroom

Recovery is about more than stopping a behavior—it’s about building a meaningful life. This training will challenge, inspire, and deepen your understanding of one of the most powerful dimensions of recovery.

Register today: https://catalog.protraxx.com/ClassDetails/445260?CustomerId=245