University Adopts Expanding Collegiate Recovery Community Model

DENVER - Sept. 10, 2018 - PRLog -- In order to support students recovering from substance use disorders, the Health and Counseling Center at the University of Denver recently announced the start of a Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC). The program, which also aims to stop relapses and encourage academic performance, officially starts today.

Dylan Dunn, the coordinator of the CRC at the University of Denver, said that the establishment of the CRC was pushed by a student's overdose death last year.

"That [death] was kind of the impetus for the kind of conversations that were happening with collegiate recovery being a field that was growing slowly at first and started to grow really quickly," he said.

Collegiate Recovery Programs (CRPs) also gives university students an outlet for recovery resources. While the terms CRPs and CRCs are interchangeable, their implementation may vary among academic institutions.

The Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) certifies CRPs and CRCs throughout the U.S. The ARHE provides the resources, education and connections to assist students progress through recovery.

CRPs are similar to Recovery High Schools (RHSs) but have a more advanced model, giving students more flexibility and power to dictate how they approach recovery.

"I think college in general just provides a different experience for students," Dunn said. "Of course, RHS students come in for various reasons; either the criminal justice system has referred them or they found themselves in a situation where parents saw it was the best fit, we even saw students who were there that wanted to be there making the move for themselves in RHS."

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