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Certified Recovery Specialists (CRS) Regional County Training Forums: Innovative and Promising Practices for Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Older Adults
Changed name order and added pertinent info.
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What is a CRS?
A Certified Recovery Specialist provides peer-to-peer Recovery Support services.
An individual with “lived experience” of addiction and recovery.
Is a role model and mentor (offers his/her life as living proof of the transformative power of recovery.)
Provides stage-appropriate addiction recovery education and advice.
Acts as an advocate (helps individuals and families navigate the service system, assuring service access, service responsiveness, and protection of rights.)
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3. What Are Peer-to-Peer Recovery Support Services?
Services to help individuals and families initiate, stabilize, and sustain recovery
Non-professional and non-clinical
Provide links to professional treatment and indigenous communities of support
Honors all pathways to recovery
They are not:
Professional addiction treatment services
Mutual aid support
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4. When Are Peer Recovery Support Services Delivered?
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When Are Peer Recovery Support Services Delivered?
Across the full continuum of the recovery process:
Prior to treatment
During treatment
Post treatment
In lieu of treatment
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5. Peer Recovery Support Services Encompass Four Types of Social Support
Emotional
Informational
Instrumental
Affiliational
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What Does the CRS Do?
Personal guide and mentor for individuals seeking to achieve or sustain long-term recovery from addiction, regardless of pathway to recovery
Connector to instrumental recovery-supportive resources, including housing, employment, and other professional and nonprofessional services
Liaison to formal and informal community supports, resources, and recovery-supporting activities
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7. Where Can the CRS Deliver Services?
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Where Can the CRS Deliver Services?
Recovery community centers
Faith and community-based organizations
Recovery residences
Emergency departments
Addiction and mental health service agencies
Jails and prisons
Probation and parole programs
Drug courts
HIV/AIDs and other health and social service centers
Children, youth, and family service agencies
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8. Recovery Support & Older Adults
Among older adults receiving peer recovery support, over a six-month period,
94.8% maintained abstinence from substances
Significant increase in percentage who:
Achieved stable housing
Enrolled in school or job training
Obtained and maintained employment
Self-reported health as “good, very good, or excellent.”
PRO-ACT’s Recovery Community Services Program

9. CRS Credential Requirements
As set by the PA Certification Board (PCB)
High School Diploma or GED
54 Hours Education/Training
18 in Recovery Management
12 in Education/Advocacy
6 in Confidentiality
6 in Fields Relevant to Addiction
Sign & Abide by Code of Ethical Conduct
Live or Work in PA
Written Exam
2 Year Credential

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How Are They Funded?
A few states reimburse for certified peer addiction recovery support professionals
PA – Several managed care organizations and counties reimburse for CRS.
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11. Where Can I Find a CRS?
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The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, Inc./ Pennsylvania Recovery Organization - Achieving Community Together (PRO-ACT)
252 West Swamp Road, Unit 12
Doylestown, PA 18901
Phone:
Message Carriers of Pennsylvania, Inc.
5907 Penn Avenue Ste 215
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Phone:
Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A)
900 South Arlington Ave Suite 119. Harrisburg, PA Phone:
The RASE Project
100 North Cameron Street
Suite 401-E
Harrisburg, PA 17101
Phone:
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The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, Inc Beverly J. Haberle, MHS, LPC, CAADC & Stacey A. Conway, PhD