Recovery Community Ally Program

Paid for by the Government of Alberta

Description

The Recovery Community Ally Program is a five-day, in-person training for people who are actively in recovery.

Each training day consists of 8 hours of connection, learning, and shared experience. This program is the entry point into all Recovery Coach Academy Canada trainings, but it is not about professional development. Instead, it focuses on personal growth, collective recovery, and building a sense of belonging in recovery communities. 

Participants explore:

  • What it means to be part of a recovery community
  • How to connect more deeply with themselves and others
  • How to contribute to spaces where recovery can thrive.

Through discussion, storytelling, skill-building, and interactive activities, they leave with tools, insights, and experiences they can carry back into their daily lives, treatment environments, and ongoing recovery spaces. 

Facilities that send individuals to this program see benefits such as:

  • Stronger current and post-treatment engagement
  • Reduced isolation, and participants who return with a deeper personal commitment to recovery
  • Community and the skills to strengthen community life

Graduates return to their recovery communities with leadership, accountability, and the ability to foster connection; key elements for sustaining recovery long after treatment ends.