Step 1—ASSESS: Download the R1 Recovery Capital Screener (RCS-36)

The RCS-36 is a measurement tool for calculating individual Recovery Capital and creating an instant strength-based guide for recovery management. Contact us to learn more about how to license the RCS-36 with your programs, populations, and settings. R1 provides technical assistance, implementation support services, expert analysis, and summary reporting. Online assessment, analytic dashboards, industry bench-marking, and languages are on R1’s roadmap via the R1 Discover App.

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DIGITAL, Single pages for taking digitally or printing on 8.5"X11" paper

• RCS-36 (Color), Blank questionnaire ONLY (2-pages)

• RCS-36 (Black & White), Blank questionnaire ONLY (2-pages)

DIGITAL, Facing pages for taking digitally, viewing, or sharing with others

• RCS-36 (Color), Cover and blank questionnaire (4-pages)

• RCS-36, (Color), Background, sample, and blank for sharing with others (12-pages)

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• RCS-36 (Color), Full-Bleed, Blank questionnaire ONLY (4-pages)

• RCS-36 (Black & White), Full-Bleed, Blank questionnaire ONLY (4-pages)

Step 2—EXPLORE: Learn more about R1 Discovery Cards, Group Kits, and the R1 Discover App

R1 offers a variety of interactive curriculum resources to help individuals learn about themselves, self-discover strengths and gaps, and identify relevant goals for action. R1 offers workforce training to equip and enable practitioner teams to increase engagement and monitor progress. The R1 Discover App and the hands-on Discovery Cards provide interactive tools to support leading evidence-based practices such as Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). R1’s tools provide an easily learned, standardized, consistent, and repeatable process for your team. The tools and activities are easily adapted for different populations and settings and by practitioners at all levels of knowledge, skill, and experience.

R1 Discover App Available with interactive activities, videos, and User/company dashboards

View Recovery Capital Resources:

• R1 Discover App, includes 7 Recovery Capital Interactive Activities

• R1 Recovery Capital Collection

• R1 Recovery Capital Group Kit

• R1 Recovery Capital Topic Kit

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Recovery Capital Facilitator Guide—Activity Worksheets for completing digitally or printing on 8'.5”X11” paper:

• Activity 1: Identify My Recovery Capital Strengths (1-page)

• Activity 2: Identify My Recovery Capital Gaps (1-page)

• Activity 3: Identify My Barriers and Unmet Needs (1-page)

• Activity 4: Strengthen My Recovery Capital (1-page)

Step 3—PLAN: Download the Recovery Capital Plan

The R1 Recovery Capital Plan (RCP) provides an integrated strength-based approach for building an actionable recovery plan. The RCP integrates the results from the RCS-36, followed by exploration using the R1 Discover App or the R1 Discovery Cards, into an actionable Recovery Capital Plan. All of the resources in the R1 Recovery Capital Toolkit can be used separately or together as an integrated solutions.

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• Recovery Capital Plan (Color) — Step 1, blank plan (1-page)

• Recovery Capital Plan (Color) — Step 2, 1 Goal, blank plan (1-page)

• Recovery Capital Plan (Color) — Step 2, 2 Goals, blank plan (1-page)

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• Recovery Capital Plan (Color), Background, sample, and blank (8-pages)

DIGITAL, Facing pages for completing digitally and printing full-bleed on 11”X17” paper

• Recovery Capital Plan (Color), Cover and blank plan (4-pages)

• Recovery Capital Plan (Color), Full-Bleed, Cover and blank plan (4-pages)

Recovery Capital Thought Leadership—Dr. David Best

R1 Recovery Capital Toolkit Contributors

• Dr. David Best, International Expert, Professor of Addiction Recovery at Leeds Trinity University. Advisory Board, Recovery Research Institute (RRI)

• Tom Karl, Author, Founder and CEO, R1 Learning

• Kurt Lebeck, PhD Student & NIAAA Fellow at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management

• Shinasa Shahid, PhD researcher on Addiction Recovery

• Jenna Oelschlegel, Emergency Department Social Worker at Boston Medical Center (BMC)

R1 expresses our deepest gratitude to the contributors of the Recovery Capital Toolkit. Without their passion, collaboration, and intellectual capital, these tools would not have been possible.

R1 Recovery Capital Special Acknowledgements

• Larry Gourdine, Program Manager, Psychiatric Institute of Washington (PIW), A Universal Health Services (UHS) Hospital

• Pete Nielsen, President and CEO, California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professions (CCAPP) and the Behavioral Health Association of Providers (BHAP)

R1 expresses our deepest gratitude for the leadership, mentorship, and unwavering support of Pete Nielsen and Larry Gourdine. Their passion and work for helping individuals in recovery and their families are unprecedented and inspiring. Without their knowledge, experience, intellectual capital, and the ability to connect the dots between Recovery Capital, the Social Determinants of Health, and the importance for Cultural Responsiveness, this toolkit would not have been realized. Their direction and input have been invaluable.

References

Groshkova, T., Best, D. & White, W. (2011) Recovery Group Participation Scale (RGPS): factor structure in alcohol and heroin recovery populations. Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery, 6, 76-92.

Groshkova, T., Best, D. & White, W. (2012) The Assessment of Recovery Capital: Properties and psychometrics of a measure of addiction recovery strengths. Drug and Alcohol Review, 32(2):187-94

Cano, I., Best, Edwards, M. & Lehman, J. (2017) Recovery capital pathways: Mapping the components of recovery well-being, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 181, 11-19.

Best, D. (2019) Pathways to dissidence and recovery: The role of the social contagion of hope. Policy Press: Bristol.

R1 Recovery Capital Training & Education

R1 offers training, tools, and technology solutions to increase the knowledge, skill, and effectiveness of your workforce. Building resilience for peers, individuals, through Recovery Capital planning.