Cost: $375

May 2024

May 2, 3
9:00 - 4:00 (EST)

June/July 2024

June 24 & July 1
9:00 - 4:00 (EST)

August 2024

August 29 & 30
9:00 - 4:00 (EST)

Justin McNeal, NCPRSS, CPRS-FE, CPS
…a person in long-term recovery, Justin is a Nationally Certified Peer Recovery Specialist and a Certified Peer Support Specialist. Justin is the Director Of Justice Involved Programs and is a trainer at Minnesota Recovery Connection. Justin is a passionate Harm Reduction advocate that pushes for change in his State of MN and Nationally. Justin is a member of the ASAP-NYCB Trainer Registry and is approved to facilitate Harm Reduction training for Recovery Coach University.

12 Hr. Recovery Coaching a Harm Reduction Pathway

“This Harm Reduction training teaches that we are in this role to support and motivate our recoverees. Their recovery is NOT ours and that is powerful.”
— K. Hull, HELIO Health, Nov. 2022

Co-Authored by Jim Wuelfing & Dean LeMire, The LeMire Group, LLC; Facilitated by Justin McNeal.

Learn to accept, coach and support this life saving and stigma-defying recovery pathway directly from the experts, authors and harm reduction movement leaders.

Must have access to both audio and video connection. This RCU Zoom/Virtual Trainings is approved by ASAP-NYCB for CARC* Elective (Initial) and CRPA and CARC Renewal Hours.
* ASAP-NYCB Approved for CARC Initial (Elective) Certification and CRPA Renewal Hours.

Recovery Coaching a Harm Reduction Pathway© comes just in time for a new phase in recovery coaching development alongside a swelling harm reduction movement across North America. A handful of leaders in both the peer recovery supports and harm reduction movements collaborated to bring this curriculum to its current form. 

Course Description
RCHRP utilizes adult learning theory concepts and modalities to address recovery coach and harm reduction knowledge, attitudes, practices, access to resources, and coaching skills. As this training explores sensitive topics, its design and delivery are highly trauma-informed. Each class becomes a safe place for self-examination and practice from the outset.

Outcomes/Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to...

  • Define harm reduction as a practice and as a social movement

  • Apply person-centered coaching skills to help individuals define their preferred path of recovery and address safety and risk reduction

  • Examine one’s beliefs and values around a harm reduction pathway of recovery

  • Compare and contrast principles of harm reduction and recovery coaching

  • Define and locate opportunities for improving a Recovery-Oriented System of Care that serves People Who Use Drugs

  • Discuss advocacy and practices around social justice issues as part of harm reduction

  • Practice newly acquired knowledge and skills supporting a harm reduction pathway of recovery

  • Develop a personal action plan for further development of harm reduction recovery coaching skills

“The instructor Justin was amazing in presenting the material and guiding discussions.”
— A. REPPERT, LIFESTREAM BEHAVIORAL CENTER, LEESBURG, FL, SEPT. 2023
“Justin is a Rockstar. He did an amazing job. It didn’t feel like class I really enjoyed myself and learned so much. It went by too fast.”
— Chantel Reeses, Jan. 2023