April 8, 2026 | Creating a Recovery Center in Rural Communities
Presenter: Erik Lamoreau, LADC, CCS
Creating a sustainable recovery center in your community is not out of reach. Rural communities tend to lean on each other for support. Together we can build a recovery ready community in your small town. This presentation will give you some tools on how to build and sustain a recovery center in your small community without grant funding up front.
Learning Objectives:
- • How to leverage support in the community?
- • Functionality of the center and volunteers.
- • Creating long-term sustainability of the center.
- • Moving Beyond recovery center to other community-based recovery resources.
Presenter
Erik Lamoreau, LADC, CCS is a person in long term SUD recovery since February 20th, 2014. As a person in recovery, he has achieved many goals. He has found a passion for helping others and work in the field of behavioral health. He was able to return to school and was elected student of the year for 2019 for Northern Maine Community College. He is the SUD Peer Recovery Program Coordinator for the Mi’kmaq Family Health Services. He sponsors other men in 12-step programs. He is a trained recovery coach supervisor and community naloxone distributor. As a responsible member of society, he is a strong advocate in his community for recovery, and a valued member of the workforce. Most importantly he identifies that he is a girl dad, son, grandson, and husband and gets to be the vision of hope for the next person trying to recover.
Continuing Medical Education
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of
1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit ™.
Contact Hours
1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional
Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contact hours for Alcohol and Drug Counselors pending approval by the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.