Recovery Coach

The Recovery Coach role in the past decade has emerged from the recognition of the need to reconnect addiction treatment to the more enduring process of addiction recovery, to effectively link clients from treatment institutions to indigenous communities of recovery, and to address complex co-occurring problems that inhibit successfully overcoming life controlling addictions.

These recognitions are part of a larger shift in the design of addiction treatment to a focus on sustained community recovery management and the growing and building of community recovery capital.

The words most frequently used words to describe what the Recovery Coach does include the following: identify, engage, encourage, motivate, share, express, enhance, orient, help, identify, link, consult, monitor, transport, praise, enlist, support, organize, and advocate. The fact that the Recovery Coach fulfills all of these functions is a strength and vulnerability of the Recovery Coach role.

A Recovery Coach's training and experiential knowledge makes them perfect to help with: All types of Addictions ….Addiction Recovery…. Alcohol... Drugs (Prescription/Illegal)... Gambling... Internet/Computer... Pornography... Anxiety... Depression... Bingeing… Over spending... Procrastination... etc...

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What a Recovery Coach is:

• motivator and cheerleader (exhibits bold faith in individual/family capacity for change; encourages and celebrates achievement),
• ally and confidant (genuinely cares, listens, and can be trusted with confidences),
• truth-teller (provides a consistent source of honest feedback regarding self-destructive patterns of thinking, feeling and acting),
• role model and mentor (offers his/her life as living proof of the transformable power of recovery; provides stage-appropriate recovery education and advice),
• problem solver (identifies and helps resolve personal and environmental obstacles to recovery),
• resource broker (links individuals/families to formal and indigenous sources of sober housing, recovery-conducive employment, health and social services, and recovery support),
• advocate (helps individuals and families navigate the service system assuring service access, service responsiveness and protection of rights),
• community organizer (helps develop and expand available recovery support resources),
• lifestyle consultant (assists individuals/families to develop sobriety-based rituals of daily living), and
• a friend (provides companionship) Back to Top

What a Recovery Coach is NOT:

• sponsor (does not perform AA/NA service work on “paid time”),
• therapist (does not diagnose, probe undisclosed “issues”; does not refer to their support activities as “counseling” or “therapy”),
• nurse/physician (does not make medical diagnoses or offer medical advice), or a
• priest/clergy (does not respond to questions of religious doctrine nor proselytize a particular religion/church)Back to Top

Equipped 4 Service Connection's mission, motto, goal, and purpose, "equipping you for your work of service", is based on the Biblical text found at, Ephesians 4:12.