Module 3: Development & Sustainability
Unit 9: Resources
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Organizational Assessment | SAMHSA’s SAMHSA’s Working Definition of Recovery | SAMHSA | tooltip icon This resource offers a download of a brochure that provides a working definition and 10 guiding principles for recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders. |
How to Do a SWOT Analysis (3 Examples & Free Template) | Semrush | tooltip icon This resource describes how to complete a SWOT analysis and implement the findings. This resource also contains a free SWOT analysis template. |
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SWOT Analysis: How To With Table and Example | Investopedia | tooltip icon This resource describes the purpose and steps to completing a SWOT analysis. |
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Recovery Home Best Practices & Certification Resources | AzRHA Pre-Certification Checklist | AzRHA (Arizona Recovery Home Association) | tooltip icon Pre-inspection/pre-certification checklist covering Health Review, Safety Review, Management and Document Review. Provides downloadable checklist. |
AzRHA Quality & Operational Standards | AzRHA (Arizona Recovery Home Association) | tooltip icon Outline of AzRHA Core Principles |
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I-STARR Webinars for Recovery Home Operators & Providers | I-STARR (Infrastructure for Studying Treatment Addiction Recovery Residences) | tooltip icon The operators and providers’ track supports recovery housing providers (e.g., operators, owners, and house managers) with topics related to operations and management of recovery residences. Webinars are the second Tuesday of each month at 11:00 am PT. The series also includes sessions open to all stakeholders with a focus on topics relevant to a wider audience. |
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NARR’s Resource Center | National Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR) | tooltip icon NARR resources offering residence standard, code of ethics, conference presentations, information and news, research, and more. |
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NARR Standards | National Alliance for Recovery Residences | tooltip icon NARR Standard v. 3.0 (Released 2018) |
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SAMHSA’s Recovery Housing: Best Practices & Suggested Guidelines | SAMHSA | tooltip icon This report identifies ten specific areas, or guiding principles, that help define what comprises safe, effective, and legal recovery housing. |
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501(c)(3) Resources | IRS Charities & Nonprofit Resource Website | U.S. Internal Revenue Service | tooltip icon Tax information, tools, and resources for charities and other tax-exempt organizations. |
Small to Mid-Size 501(c)(3) Organization Workshop | U.S. Internal Revenue Service | tooltip icon Learn more about the benefits, limitations and expectations of tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations by participating in the IRS interactive “Small to Midsize Tax Exempt Organization Workshop.” After viewing each of the interactive presentations, your organizational leadership will understand the benefits, limitations and expectations for exempt organizations. |
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FAQ for Tax Exempt Organizations | U.S. Internal Revenue Service | tooltip icon Helpful questions and answers for exempt organizations form the IRS. |
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Video: Public Benefit Corp, Nonprofit 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), or LLC? Pros & Cons for a Mission-Based Entity | Legal Zoom (YouTube) | tooltip icon Video describing considerations for becoming a Public Benefit Corp, Nonprofit 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), or LLC |
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Technical Assistance Partnership of AZ | Vitalyst Foundation | tooltip icon The Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona (TAPAZ) offers crucial fiscal management support and helps build nonprofit organizational capacity. |
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Nonprofit and Qualifying Healthcare | Arizona Department of Revenue Service | tooltip icon If considering filing for 501(c)(3) Status, ensure you understand both federal and state tax code. |
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IRS Resource Library | IRS | tooltip icon Resources from the IRS to answer your questions about 501(c)(3) organizations. |
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How To Start A Nonprofit | Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits | tooltip icon How to Start a Nonprofit guide is a free resource that helps you think about the difference you seek to make and the structure best suited to move forward. |
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Business Types 101 | Legal Zoom | tooltip icon This webpage provides a brief overview of alternative business models in addition to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. |
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Resources for Building Your Referral Network | Engagement and Recovery: Social Media/Technology for Outreach and Engagement | SAMHSA | tooltip icon This webinar covers technology and social media as approaches for overcoming obstacles and barriers to successful engagement and partnership building in services. |
Essential Internet Marketing Tools and Advertising Strategies for Sober Living | Mathew Gorman / LinkedIn | tooltip icon This brief article covers different internet marketing tools you can use to get the word out about your recovery home. |
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Grant Related Resources | ACF Current Grant Opportunities | Arizona Community Foundation | tooltip icon Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) connects community organizations with donors in order to make change in local communities. |
Charitable Contributions | Costco | tooltip icon Costco charitable giving, donation and grant eligibility guidelines |
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AZERC Grant Opportunities | Local First Arizona | tooltip icon List of grant opportunities by category (Health, Arts, etc) |
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Apply for Grant Funding | Valley of the Sun United Way | tooltip icon United Way application for grant funding, plus grant writing resources |
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Program Evaluation & Client Data Resources | Program Evaluation | CDC | tooltip icon Resources and information from teh CDC to completing program evaluations within health settings. |
The Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation: How to Become Savvy Evaluation Consumers | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | tooltip icon “What is evaluation? How can it help your organization? And how can you work more effectively with your evaluator? This handbook is designed to demystify evaluation and help you get the most out of evaluation for your organization.” |
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Resources for Supporting Peers | Recovery Home Academy: House Manager Training | ASU SIRC Opioid Initiatives & AzRHA | tooltip icon The House Manager Training is designed for peer supports who move into leadership roles within their recovery home. The training covers introspective and reflective activities, communication styles, resources for descalation and crisis intervention, and more. We recommend home owners take this training to support their house managers. |
Supervisor of Peer Workers Self-Assessment | BRSS TACS Supervisor of Peer Workers Self Assessment | tooltip icon “Take the Supervisor of Peer Workers Self-Assessment to “help you reflect on your own supervision practice and identify areas you’d like to become a more effective supervisor of peer workers” |
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SAMHSA: Peer Support Workers for Those in Recovery | SAMHSA Peer Support Workers for those in Recovery | tooltip icon SAMHSA has resources about the value and strengths of peer support specialists and how to provide supervision. This may help in your role as supervisor to house managers. |
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Peer Recovery Center of Excellence | Peer Recovery Center of Excellence | tooltip icon The Peer Recovery CoE provides training & technical assistance to build and elevate an equitable peer workforce to deliver Peer Recovery Support Services. We accomplish this through supporting peer integration, Recovery Community Organization capacity building, peer workforce development, and evidence based practice dissemination. |