Center for Addiction Recovery Training

Center for Addiction Recovery Training CCAR Training is the global leader in Recovery Coach education. What began in Connecticut soon spread nationwide and around the world.

We empower recovery coaches worldwide through the Recovery Coach Academy©, advanced courses, and the Recovery Coach Professional (RCP) and Recovery Coach Professional Facilitator (RCPF). The Story of CCAR Training

The Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) became a global leader in recovery coach training from one powerful question:
How can we better support people seeking help at our Recovery Community Centers? The Birth of the Recovery Coach Academy®

In 2009, that question led to the creation of CCAR’s flagship program—the Recovery Coach Academy®. Designed to equip volunteers with the skills to support individuals in recovery, it quickly proved transformative. Participants left empowered, connected, and inspired to walk beside others with empathy, respect, and hope. The model wasn’t just effective—it was revolutionary. Expanding Access

To meet demand, CCAR launched the Training of Trainers (TOT) program, allowing organizations to bring Recovery Coach Academy to their own communities. This expansion marked a new vision: professionalizing recovery coaching and maintaining its integrity across all systems of care. Setting the Standard

By 2012, as Connecticut explored a state-level Certified Addiction Recovery Coach credential, CCAR helped define the foundational competencies of recovery coaching—known as the CCAR Three-Legged Stool:

Listen actively

Ask good questions

Manage your own stuff

These pillars uphold the seat of the stool: treat each person as their own best resource. A Comprehensive Approach

Recognizing that one training alone doesn’t make a coach, CCAR developed eight advanced courses covering ethics, boundaries, and specialized peer support in clinical, correctional, and youth settings. Together, they form a complete professional development pathway for recovery coaches. Global Impact

To date, CCAR has trained more than 110,000 recovery coaches, facilitators, and trainers across the U.S., tribal nations, and internationally. Its model is now the gold standard for peer support in recovery centers, hospitals, courts, and behavioral health systems. Today, CCAR stands as a global force for change—redefining peer support, uplifting recovery voices, and setting the benchmark for recovery coach training rooted in compassion, integrity, and skill. And we’re just getting started.

02/28/2026

🎉 Happy Birthday, Danny! 🎉

Today we celebrate not just another year — but the heart, dedication, and leadership you bring to the CCAR Training Team every single day.

As our Participant Coordinator, RCP, RCPF, and interview panelist, you help create spaces where recovery professionals grow, learn, and feel supported. Your lived experience, integrity, and commitment to giving back to the recovery community shine through in everything you do.

You show up with purpose. You lead with humility. You serve with heart.

We are grateful for the passion you bring to elevating recovery coaching and for the countless lives you impact — both directly and through every training participant you support. The ripple effect is real.

Wishing you a year filled with continued growth, joy, family time, and well-deserved celebration. 🎂🎈

With appreciation,
The CCAR Training Team 💙

02/27/2026

Recovery Coaching Reflection Series w/ CCAR Training 🦩✨

Emmit the Emu and James asked Travis: A person in recovery wants to repair a broken relationship, but the other person isn’t ready. How would you respond as a coach?

Travis shared that he’d start with curiosity 👇
What are your feelings about where things stand right now?
What feels broken to you?
What specifically are you hoping to repair?
What would “repair” even look like?

As coaches, we don’t force outcomes. We don’t fix relationships. 💛

We help people:
✨ Get clear on their intentions
✨ Focus on what’s within their control
✨ Take healthy accountability
✨ Practice patience and boundaries
✨ Remember their recovery isn’t dependent on someone else’s readiness

Growth doesn’t require someone else’s permission. 🌱

As a coach, what would you do? 👇

✨ Woodard’s Webinar Series | CCAR Training ✨ What does it mean to truly be free in recovery?Join us on March 12, 2026 (1...
02/26/2026

✨ Woodard’s Webinar Series | CCAR Training ✨ What does it mean to truly be free in recovery?

Join us on March 12, 2026 (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST) for:

“Why Am I? Recovery, Mysticism & Man’s Search for Meaning”
with John Schwartz, CCAR Recovery Center Manager

Many individuals in recovery are searching for purpose and connection as they rebuild their lives. In this powerful session, John explores how mystic traditions across cultures offer pathways to self-possession, freedom from fear, and inner peace.

🗓 March 12, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM–12:00 PM EST

💻 FREE for all to attend via Zoom
🔗 Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85779094789?pwd=WXZIelNvODRlUVc1V3dZb1l0Z044dz09
Meeting ID: 857 7909 4789
Passcode: 355268

📜 Need CEUs?
CEUs are available for $30
✔ Complete registration in Protraxx to receive credit: https://catalog.protraxx.com/ClassDetails/445317?CustomerId=245

This conversation is for recovery coaches, peers, and anyone exploring meaning in their recovery journey.

Let’s explore purpose together. 💙

02/25/2026

In today’s world, recovery coach professional facilitators matter more than ever. 💙

When you step into a CCAR training, you’re not just signing up for a certification — you’re stepping into a ripple effect. 🌊 Every Recovery Coach Professional we train goes on to support individuals, families, and entire communities. The knowledge shared in one Zoom room can reach hundreds — even thousands — of lives.

Imagine 70 people in a training. Now imagine how many people those 70 will walk alongside in recovery. 🤝 How many families will be strengthened? How many lives will be changed? That’s impact. That’s legacy. That’s hope multiplying. ✨

Danny Vazquez, RCP, RCPF, lives this mission every day. 🙌 As CCAR’s Participant Coordinator, Danny brings both professional excellence and lived experience to the table. He is a person in long-term recovery, a proud dad, and someone deeply rooted in family values. Since joining the Training Team in July 2024, he has helped create spaces where learning feels purposeful and recovery feels possible.

This isn’t just a job. It’s a calling. 🔥 And the ripple effect is real. Thank you, Danny, for the lives you’re touching — and for helping others learn how to do the same. 💙

Learn more at: https://addictionrecoverytraining.org/

02/24/2026

✨ Motivational Monday w/ CC at CCAR Training✨

“Freedom is my divine right. I am free to think wonderful thoughts. I move beyond past limitations into freedom. I am now becoming all I was meant to be.” 💫

Recovery is freedom. Freedom from old stories. Freedom from limiting beliefs. Freedom to grow, to heal, to lead. 🌿

At CCAR Training, we believe every individual has the power to step beyond the past and into purpose. When we free our minds, we free our lives — and we help others do the same. 🤝💙

Blessings & love,
CC 💛

CCAR Training Facilitator Participant Spotlight 🌟CCAR Training Facilitators bring both lived experience and professional...
02/20/2026

CCAR Training Facilitator Participant Spotlight 🌟

CCAR Training Facilitators bring both lived experience and professional excellence to recovery-centered practice — and Randolph Anderson, Founder, RCPF, LADC is a powerful example.

With nearly two decades in recovery, Randy has dedicated his life to supporting others through counseling, advocacy, overdose prevention, and systems-level reform. His journey reflects a deep commitment to service, accountability, and leadership in the recovery field.

Through CCAR Training, Randy continues to strengthen how he shows up for others — grounded in professionalism, boundaries, and the art of holding space.

“Ultimately, I wanted training that honored both lived experience and evidence-informed practice, and CCAR has always embodied that balance.”

His story is a reminder that recovery leadership grows where lived experience meets purpose.

🔗 Read Randy’s full spotlight on the blog: https://addictionrecoverytraining.org/ccar-training-facilitator-spotlight-randy-anderson/

02/20/2026

🎤 Coaching Reflection Freestyle – No Coach Is an Island
🎙️ Freestyle by Michael Serrano, CCAR Training 🎼RCP, RCPF

🎶No coach is an island alone
You don’t have to make the decision on your own
Greatness is a village with a shared vision

Be the coach with the utmost
Giving and getting respect from coast to coast
Everyone in the back that’s relaxed — no more of that
Head to the front and take notes

Come sit with GOATs
Who discover and manage when provoked
Feelings get evoked
Then the supports get invoked

Yeah — pursue it and do it. 🎵

At CCAR Training, we believe recovery coaching is connection.
It’s community. It’s showing up, learning, and growing together.

If this hits, drop a comment below. 🎧

🐾 Foster or Adopt Miss Priss | Supporting Recovery Through PAWsitive Recovery & CCAR TrainingAt CCAR Training, we believ...
02/19/2026

🐾 Foster or Adopt Miss Priss | Supporting Recovery Through PAWsitive Recovery & CCAR Training

At CCAR Training, we believe recovery is built on connection — and for many people, that connection includes a beloved pet.

Our training partner, PAWsitive Recovery, helps coordinate safe pet care for individuals entering treatment or seeking recovery services. For some, the fear of losing their animal companion is one of the biggest barriers to saying “yes” to treatment. Removing that barrier can change — and even save — lives.

Today, we are urgently seeking either a foster OR a forever adopter for a very special girl.

Meet Miss Priss — a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois with a powerful story of loyalty and love. 🐕

Miss Priss stood by her owner through homelessness and hardship, offering protection and unconditional companionship. Now, as he takes the courageous step of entering residential treatment, he wants to ensure she is safe and cared for.

We have exhausted our usual networks and truly don’t understand why she hasn’t found placement yet — she is an incredible dog who loves running and playing with our volunteers.

About Miss Priss:
• Extremely friendly and people-oriented
• Deeply loyal and bonds closely
• Dog friendly
• Potty trained
• Muzzle trained and comfortable wearing it
• Smart, affectionate, and eager to please
• Loves to run and play 🐾

Support for fosters:
• Food and veterinary care provided

Best fit:
• Experienced dog handler
• No cats or small children
• Comfortable with an active, intelligent breed

Timeline:
• Foster need: approximately 3–5 months
• Adoption: Open to the right forever home

Fostering allows her owner to focus fully on treatment.
Adopting gives Miss Priss the permanent, loving home she deserves.

Either path removes a barrier to recovery and supports healing on both ends of the leash ❤️‍🩹

If you feel called to foster, adopt, or share, please reach out. Community makes recovery possible — for people and their pets. serena.saunders@spcai.org

02/19/2026

Coaching Reflection Series – Think Like a Recovery Coach w/ CCAR Training

This week, Katrina poses a real-world coaching scenario:

If the person you’re coaching shares that their partner is still using in the house… how do you respond as a recovery coach?

Drop your thoughts in the comments ⬇️

Our insight: great coaching starts with curiosity, respect for self-determination, and helping the recoveree explore supports, boundaries, and options that align with their recovery goals.

How would you show up in this moment?

💬

Don’t forget to register for the upcoming Online Ethics Training for Recovery Coaches.If you’ve been thinking about stre...
02/17/2026

Don’t forget to register for the upcoming Online Ethics Training for Recovery Coaches.

If you’ve been thinking about strengthening your ethical foundation as a recovery coach or peer professional, this is your sign to sign up.

🗓 Starts tomorrow! (Feb 18–20)
💻 Live, online, and interactive
📚 NAADAC-approved education

Recovery coaching requires clear boundaries, ethical decision-making, and confidence in your role. This training helps you build all three.

🚨 Last chance to grab a spot!
👉https://catalog.protraxx.com/ClassDetails/443964?CustomerId=245

02/13/2026

🎉 Happy Birthday, Travis! 🎉

Recently, we celebrated Travis Caouette, RCP, RCPF, our amazing Virtual Production Team Manager at CCAR Training. Travis brings heart, compassion, and lived experience in mental health recovery to every training he supports. He has a gift for meeting people where they are — with patience, encouragement, and genuine care — and helping them grow into confident virtual learners.

Beyond the screen, his creativity shines through poetry, music, and graphic design, making our community even brighter.

Please join us in wishing Travis a wonderful birthday and year ahead! 🎂💙 Drop your birthday wishes below! 👇

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