The Recovery Kentucky Center Model combines safe housing, peer leadership, and accountability to deliver lasting results. It’s a proven, scalable approach for addressing substance use disorder across the Commonwealth.
The peer social model of recovery is a long-term, person-centered approach to substance use disorder recovery that combines safe, structured housing with peer support, community accountability, and meaningful life engagement. Rooted in the Recovery Kentucky tradition, this model emphasizes that individuals recover not in isolation, but through mutual support, shared experience, and responsibility within a community.
Individuals live in supportive recovery residences where they can stay up to 24 months, focusing on stability, sobriety, and independence.
Residents are supported by peer mentors, people with lived experience, who provide guidance, encouragement, and accountability.
The model honors each person’s unique history by asking “What has been tried before?” and tailoring support accordingly, rather than offering one-size-fits-all treatment.
Recovery is reinforced through shared living, structured routines, community participation, and connections to work, education, and mutual-help programs.
This approach has been shown to help individuals become self-sufficient, tax-paying, and law-abiding citizens by breaking cycles of crisis, dependence, and repeated public system interactions.
Recovery housing is a proven, cost-effective strategy that reduces homelessness, crime, and repeated emergency system use. By providing a stable environment for individuals rebuilding their lives, RKHP strengthens communities, protects taxpayer dollars, and promotes self-reliance.
Our programs are led by those who have walked the path of recovery and now give back by guiding others. This model instills accountability, personal growth, and community engagement—fostering long-term independence and reducing reliance on public systems.
With over 17 years of independently measured outcomes, RKHP demonstrates an impressive return on investment—saving $3.14 for every $1 spent. We prioritize what works: reducing recidivism, improving employment, and strengthening families, all while reducing government burden.
We work to ensure access to recovery housing for those who need it most, not by expanding entitlements, but by building efficient, accountable systems. Our approach supports Kentuckians committed to recovery, regardless of their financial starting point.
RKHP partners with policymakers and industry leaders to ensure long-term stability. By pursuing strategies like an Independent Practice Association (IPA), we are working to responsibly access Medicaid reimbursement and secure stable, non-duplicative funding streams.
We believe recovery thrives where people have purpose. RKHP focuses on restoring lives through family reunification, meaningful work, responsible living, and renewed community involvement—core American values that promote lasting freedom from addiction.
Recovery Kentucky centers are built on the social model of recovery, emphasizing community and peer accountability. Key services include:
RKHP is a statewide collaboration that supports and strengthens Kentucky’s Recovery Kentucky Centers. The Partnership connects recovery housing providers, community partners, and stakeholders to resources, best practices, and coordinated systems that promote long-term recovery.
The Social Model of Recovery is a peer-driven, community-based approach where individuals learn recovery through daily practice, shared responsibility, and mutual support. The recovery environment itself serves as the foundation for growth, accountability, and lasting change.
Recovery Kentucky Centers offer peer-led recovery housing, life skills and employment readiness, recovery support and case management, community service opportunities, and ongoing alumni and continuing care support.
Services are available to individuals seeking a structured, supportive recovery housing environment. Eligibility and referral processes vary by center and are guided by each individual’s needs and readiness for recovery.
RKHP strengthens collaboration across the recovery ecosystem by coordinating referrals, supporting sustainability of 18 centers and over 2,200 beds statewide, and advancing initiatives that improve access, outcomes, and system alignment.
Organizations can partner with RKHP through membership, collaboration, and investment in statewide recovery initiatives. Partners help shape future projects, support recovery housing sustainability, and strengthen pathways to care across Kentucky.
Whether through donations, volunteering, or professional partnerships, you can expand the reach of recovery housing.
