Recovery Assistant Certificate Package

Recovery assistants play an important role in addiction treatment, recovery homes, sober living environments, community recovery services, and structured treatment programs. They often support clients in the day-to-day recovery environment, helping to maintain structure, encourage accountability, observe behaviour, support healthy routines, and work alongside counsellors and clinical teams.

The Recovery Assistant Certificate Package is designed for individuals who want to build a strong foundation for supportive work in the addiction recovery field. This may include recovery assistants, peer supporters, volunteers, trainees, sober living staff, halfway house staff, house managers, treatment centre support workers, and those wanting an entry point into addiction-related work.

Recovery support requires more than lived experience or good intentions. It requires an understanding of addiction, ethics, boundaries, relapse warning signs, motivation, recovery principles, and the importance of working safely within scope and under appropriate supervision.

RACP Recovery Assistant Certificate Package

The ACCSA Recovery Assistant Certificate Package provides practical addiction-specific education for those working in supportive and supervised recovery roles. The package introduces learners to key foundations in addiction counselling, addiction theory, ethical and legal responsibilities, addiction pharmacology, process and behavioural addictions, 12 Step treatment, substance abuse prevention and intervention, relapse prevention, motivation for change, and peer recovery coaching.

This package is ideal for individuals entering the addiction field or organisations wanting to upskill their recovery support staff. It helps recovery assistants better understand their role, maintain appropriate boundaries, support recovery-focused environments, identify concerns that may need referral to senior staff, and contribute meaningfully to the client’s treatment and recovery process.

A trained recovery assistant does not replace the counsellor. A trained recovery assistant strengthens the recovery environment.