Program Models for Recovery
A multidisciplinary group of agencies in Vermont serving women with opioid use disorder and their families during pregnancy and infancy
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Replicated
- Comprehensive services
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Family Support
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
A community-based program integrating assertive outreach, medications for opioid use disorder, behavioral counseling, peer recovery support, and paramedic follow-up
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Outreach
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A recovery community organization in South Florida that supports both peer-driven recovery and harm reduction services
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
- Recovery coaching
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A New Mexico program trains prisoners as Peer Leaders able to educate on the risks of illicit substance use
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Replicated
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Recovery coaching
A transitional program for individuals leaving treatment or the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom that focuses on employment, housing, and social support
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Housing, Education, and Employment
Peer recovery specialists in Rhode Island provide harm reduction and treatment services to high-risk populations in emergency departments and communities
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A local coalition in rural Minnesota addressing drug prevention by holding community forums and education sessions and collaborating with schools
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
A harm reduction program model offering a variety of services largely aimed at educating and aiding those who inject drugs
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Educational
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A law enforcement initiative, begun in Gloucester, MA and now expanded nationwide, that aims to make police departments a point of entry for treatment, providing early intervention and treatment on demand for those with substance use disorders
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Replicated
- Crisis intervention
- Diversion
- Early Intervention
- Recovery coaching
Under the Affordable Care Act, three states implemented Opioid Health Homes, systems designed to coordinate and improve treatment for opioid use disorder

- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Replicated
- Comprehensive services
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Comprehensive substance use treatment for pregnant and new mothers in a largely rural areas of western North Carolina
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Early Intervention
- Family Support
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
A recovery community organization in Greenville, SC creating a face and voice for recovery, providing recovery support services, and using peers to support interventions
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Family Support
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Outreach
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
This promising pilot program in Chicago linked individuals to medications for opioid use disorder following an opioid overdose
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Early Intervention
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Outreach
- Post-overdose response
A hospital-based intervention and referral program in Delaware for patients presenting with substance use disorders
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Early Intervention
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A bilingual, bicultural behavioral health center providing a comprehensive continuum of care that specializes in serving the Latinx community in Massachusetts
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Recovery coaching
A New Jersey peer support program offering round the clock recovery services for individuals with substance use disorders, whether presenting at emergency departments or admitted as in-patients.
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A mutual support model, originally developed in Massachusetts, that can provide family members affected by opioid use disorder with support, reduce stigma in the community, and increase the targeted distribution of naloxone.
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Replicated
- Educational
- Family Support
- Overdose prevention
An innovative recovery community organization model that provides the community with both recovery support services and harm reduction services
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A Kentucky-based program connects child protection services and recovery specialists with families to ensure child safety and access to treatment for parents with substance use disorders
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Crisis intervention
- Early Intervention
- Family Support
- Recovery coaching
A recovery community organization in Lexington, Kentucky that helps people in recovery stay in recovery, with services such as recovery coaching and telephone recovery support
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Overdose prevention
- Recovery coaching