ONLINE LEARNING series
Community Supervision’s Role
in Providing Recovery Support
This video series, developed in partnerships with the Opioid Response Network, is designed to provide support for community supervision staff, featuring speakers with practical experience leading efforts to implement substance use services for individuals on supervision. Through their voices, we explore the real-world challenges and successes that shape this work, from building essential partnerships and navigating system barriers to identifying game-changing strategies. Each video offers insights and lessons learned, highlighting the innovation and collaboration driving change.
Key takeaways
Build trust by leveraging lived experience to support individuals in supervision..
Reduce stigma and empower clients by promoting dignity and respect.
Integrate peer professionals through comprehensive training, role clarity, and collaborative teamwork.
Support recovery across justice system touchpoints to ensure continuity of care.
Strengthen cross-sector partnerships to align goals, share resources, and enhance outcomes.
Use data and personal stories to demonstrate impact, gain buy-in, and sustain long-term support.
Intended audience
Staff interested in advancing recovery-focused supervision, such as:
Agency leaders
Probation staff
Parole staff
Peer specialists
County leaders
Overview of Modules
Peers in Practice: Strengthening Recovery in Community Corrections
This video highlights the role of peer recovery specialists in probation and community supervision settings. By bringing lived experience, peers build trust, reduce stigma, and offer hope to people navigating recovery under supervision. This video features voices from peers, probation officers, and judges who share how peer support strengthens client engagement, improves outcomes, and reshapes agency culture.
2025 | 8:51 min
Seeds of Change: Lessons from Peer Support in Community Corrections
This video shares insights from probation programs integrating peer recovery support. This video explores the challenges of stigma and staff hesitation, as well as the breakthroughs that come with persistence and collaboration. Viewers learn how peer support is helping people navigate setbacks, strengthening partnerships, and reshaping community corrections into a system that supports recovery, accountability, and long-term success.
2025 | 9:12 min
Probation's Role in Recovery: Accountability, Treatment, and Community Health
This video highlights how probation departments are shifting focus of supervision to a more holistic model of accountability, treatment, and support. The video demonstrates how probation is evolving to address substance use as a health issue, build trust with clients, and connect individuals to the resources they need to succeed. Viewers see how probation officers are embracing medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and treatment programs, while working across agencies, to strengthen both individual recovery and public safety.
2025 | 11:35 min
Community Supervision’s Positive Impact: Gaining Stakeholder Buy-In
This video explores how probation departments redefine their mission from enforcement to engagement, focusing on treatment, accountability, and long-term success. The video demonstrates how shifting philosophies, strong data, and collaborative practices reshape probation’s role. By highlighting client-centered approaches, building trust with providers, and demonstrating measurable outcomes, this video shows how leaders are gaining stakeholder support and creating a stronger, more effective system of community supervision.
2025 | 7:32 min