Culture & Community Meetings
Creating Positive Spaces
As an RCC, it's important that the culture of your center promotes safety, positivity, and overall wellness. This can help to propel recovery journeys forward. In this topic page, we have resources to help you lead RCC Community Meetings and other strategies for promoting positive culture.
On this page, you'll find resources that discuss the key elements of community meetings and center culture. You can find the resources on this topic and a description of each item in the list below. You can click on the title of the resource to jump down to it on the page, or simply scroll down to see previews of each resource.
Available Resources
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Templates
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Articles and Blogs
- Principles of Peer Supervision (2 pages)
- CCAR: Stay in Your Lane (4 pages)
- Core Elements of an RCC (4 pages)
- RCA Playlist (2 pages)
- Relationship Building vs. Destroying (1 page)
- Principles of Peer Supervision (2 pages)
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Videos
- Community Meetings: CCAR Meeting (~1 hour)
- Quick Clip: Community Meetings (~3 mins)
- Creating a Positive Culture (~1.5 hours)
- Resolving Conflict (~1 hour)
This CCAR training guide discusses how conflict can be worked out in a work setting. It provides you with several choices on how to discuss and de-escalate conflict, as well as when to escalate them.
This training guide developed by PSC and CCAR lays out an agenda for an effective communication workshop. Facilitators can use this guide as a reference point and training for effective communication.
As you begin to set up community meetings, it may be helpful to review this document as a point of reference. This CCAR sample provides you with a little context on what a community agenda might look like.
Articles and Blogs
What is peer supervision, and what purpose does it serve in an RCC? This article from Faces and Voices of Recovery helps to answer some of those questions.
In this article by CCAR's Phil Valentine (and his friends, as he notes), he discusses how the role of an RCC differs from that of other recovery services.
It's important that an RCC fills the role it's meant to, and that's what this CCAR article helps to break down. What is an RCC, and what is it not?
Music can be essential to the culture of a space, but how do you decide what to play? This CCAR sample form includes two pages of songs appropriate for the RCC environment.
How can you ensure that you're building your relationships, and not hurting them? This form provided by CCAR discusses some key signs that you're building—or destroying—relationships.
Peer supervision can help build stronger RCCs by relying on each other to create recovery practices. This guide provides resources and ideas for peer supervision in your RCC.
Videos
What can you expect from a community meeting? In this CCAR call, Brian and Amanda provide important insight.
This quick clip describes how community meetings bring together different parts of the community to gather information.
In this CCAR webinar, you'll learn more about how your actions can create a positive culture in your RCC.
When working with people, there's bound to be conflict. This webinar explores how to navigate those moments.