Connecticut Community of Addiction Recovery helps people with substance use disorder achieve and sustain recovery through community-based non-clinical social support programs, volunteer opportunities, and referrals to detox, treatment, housing, employment, among other resources.

Explores how the Fountain House implemented the clubhouse model, a unique approach that empowers people with serious mental illness to form meaningful relationships, build resilience, improve self-management of their mental health, and pursue employment, education, and housing.

Explores how community paramedicine programs have been implemented across the country, what evidence supports the effectiveness of these models, and how state and federal policies are helping to support the sustainability of these services.

Michael Askew, Deputy Director of the Office of Recovery at the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, discusses the role of recovery community centers in the lives of people with substance use disorder and across the continuum of other addiction care services.

This essay from Lawrence Lincoln, a former unhoused person in California, documents his journey of recovery and subsequent work with a care community.

States and health plans focused on engaging and sustaining the community health worker (CHW) workforce can use this blog post to understand emerging evidence around CHW programs for older adults.

Features a conversation with José Figueroa, MD, MPH, that explores emerging evidence behind integrated care programs and what is known about the impact of these programs on the populations they serve.