This episode features Dr. John F. Kelly, Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Addiction Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Founder and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute.

Together, we explore recovery as a long-term, community-supported process, and why strong “fluid linkages” between treatment, mutual-help, recovery housing, peer support, and community-based recovery services are essential.

Dr. Kelly discusses recovery capital, the Social Model of Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve-Step Facilitation research, expanding the menu of recovery options, and how communities can help people move from crisis and system involvement toward Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.

Recovery is more than putting the fire out. It’s about helping people rebuild.

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Tony White sits down with Governor Ernie Fletcher, physician, former Governor of Kentucky, and co-founder of the Fletcher Group, to explore the origins of FGI and the first dimension of recovery: Health.

Together, they discuss how the medical model of treatment and the peer-led Social Experiential Model of Recovery can work in tandem within a true recovery ecosystem that connects treatment, recovery housing, lived experience, and community support.

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Fletcher Group Inc. is a 501c3 not-for-profit founded in 2017 to help those in society move from the disease of addiction and the devastation of homelessness to lives of hope, dignity, and fulfillment. To that end, we research and provide best-practice technical assistance to expand the quality and capacity of recovery housing as well as the evidence-based services needed for long-term recovery.

In this opening episode, host Tony White shares part of his own recovery journey and introduces the heart of the podcast: what it takes for whole communities to become places where recovery isn't the exception, it's the expectation.

The episode defines a recovery ecosystem, explores Health, Home, Purpose, and Community, and highlights the role of lived experience, peer leadership, warm handoffs, recovery housing, pre-arrest deflection and diversion, reentry, and community connection in building long-term recovery.

Listen in and join us as we begin the conversation about building recovery-ready communities where people don't have to recover alone.

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Fletcher Group Inc. is a 501c3 not-for-profit founded in 2017 to help those in society move from the disease of addiction and the devastation of homelessness to lives of hope, dignity, and fulfillment. To that end, we research and provide best-practice technical assistance to expand the quality and capacity of recovery housing as well as the evidence-based services needed for long-term recovery.

Recovery Ecosystem Radio is a podcast about building communities where recovery is not the exception, it’s the expectation.

Hosted by Tony White, Director of Outreach for Fletcher Group, Inc. (FGI), a person committed to long-term recovery since July 8, 2003, the show amplifies real voices, practical solutions, and community-driven strategies that help people build Health, Home, Purpose, and Community.

Each episode explores what it takes to create a true recovery ecosystem: "An interconnected, community-based network of people, organizations, policies, and resources that collectively support long-term recovery by addressing substance use, mental health, housing, health care, employment, and social connection – centered on lived experience and coordinated across sectors."

Grounded in lived experience and the Social Experiential Model of Recovery, Recovery Ecosystem Radio highlights the people and partnerships making recovery possible, recovery housing, peers, employers, policymakers, researchers, pre-arrest/deflection practitioners, behavioral health professionals, justice and reentry partners, families, and community leaders.

Produced by the Fletcher Group, Inc. The podcast bridges storytelling, research, policy, and real-world implementation. It is part conversation, part toolkit, and part invitation for anyone working to build recovery-ready communities where dignity replaces stigma, warm handoffs replace dead ends, and recovery becomes a way of life.

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