CCAR Basics
All Recovery Meetings
Peer Support in Action
Recovery Language
New Haven Knowledge
100

What do the letters in CCAR stand for?

What is Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery?

100

Who can attend an All Recovery Meeting?

What is anyone in or seeking recovery, allies, or loved ones?

100

What is the main difference between a Recovery Coach and a therapist?

What is a therapist focuses on the past/trauma/problems/clinical support, while a recovery coach focuses on potential/the future/recovery solutions?

100

What’s a more empowering term than “addict” or “alcoholic”?

What is a person in recovery or a person with lived experience?

100

What public transportation runs near the New Haven RCC?

What is CTtransit buses or Union Station nearby?

200

What is the primary role of CCAR Recovery Community Centers?

What is to offer peer support and connect people to recovery resources?

200

True or False: All Recovery Meetings follow a 12-step format.

What is false?

200

What is a boundary that Recovery Coaches must maintain?

What is avoiding acting as a clinician, sponsor, physician, or clergy?

200

What does "recovery capital" mean?

What is the internal and external strengths that support your recovery?

200

What neighborhood is the New Haven RCC located in?

What is Downtown or Dwight?

300

Name one service you can access at CCAR New Haven.

What is telephone recovery support, recovery coaching, meeting space, ARM meetings, or community connection?

300

What do All Recovery Meetings celebrate?

What is all the recovery pathways?

300

What’s one thing Recovery Coaches can help with after treatment?

What is setting goals, finding meetings, building recovery capital, or reducing relapse risk, etc.?

300

What phrase does CCAR use instead of “relapse”?

What is a setback, recurrence, or return to use?

300

What All-American Food is claimed to have been invented in New Haven?

What is the first hamburger? Or was it Hamburg, Germany, or Hamburg, NY?

400

In what year was CCAR founded?

What is 1998?

400

What does E.L.M.O. stand for?

What is “Enough, let’s move on”?

400

What are two qualities of a recovery plan?

What are strengths-based and self-directed?

400

What is the term for respecting all choices and recovery methods?

What is multiple pathways of recovery?

400

What New Haven neighborhood has hosted a variety of grassroots recovery and harm reduction programs?

What is the Hill?

500

What are 3 of the CCAR Values?

What are 

  • Recovery First.
  • You are in recovery if you say you are.
  • There are many pathways of recovery.
  • Focus on the recovery potential, not the pathology.
  • Err on the side of the recoveree.
  • Err on the side of being generous.
500

What is one key value shared in All Recovery Meetings?

What is mutual respect or non-judgment?

500

Name two ways peer support improves recovery outcomes.

What is reduced relapse, improved engagement, increased hope, or stronger social support?

500

What does “self-directed” recovery mean?

What is the person chooses their own path and supports?

500

What New Haven-based organization offers syringe exchange and naloxone distribution?

What is the New Haven Syringe Services Program or the Connecticut Harm Reduction, or the APT Foundation?