Please Note: 2025 Training Price Increase to help cover the rising cost of virtual delivery infrastructure ~10%: $415
Cost: $415
March 2025
March 21 & 24
9:00 - 4:00 (EST)
May 2025
May 27 & 28
9:00 - 4:00 (EST
July 2025
TBD
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 passionate about Harm Reduction and eradicating the biases that harm people in recovery. He trained with Jim Wuelfing and Dean LeMire, both pioneers in the Harm Reduction Movement.
Justin is a member of the NYCB Trainer Registry and is approved to facilitate this RCU course through 12/2025.
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.”
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 Training is approved by NYCB for CARC Elective (Initial) and CRPA and CARC Renewal Hours through 12/2025.
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
This RCU Course and its Trainers are approved for CARC Elective and CRPA/CARC Renewal Certifications through 12/2025 by NYCB.
“The instructor Justin was amazing in presenting the material and guiding discussions.”
“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.”