Life-skills curriculum · Treatment centers & social service agencies
Life skills that turn early recovery into lasting stability.
My Recovery Is EPIC equips people in treatment for — or in recovery from — a substance use disorder with the practical tools to access housing, education, employment, purpose, and community.
What EPIC is
My Recovery is EPIC (also simply “EPIC”) is a life-skills curriculum offered exclusively by Young People in Recovery to treatment centers, equipping participants with tools to access the four areas SAMHSA identifies as critical to a successful life in recovery. YPR and our partners have found that individuals who are more actively engaged in their life-planning are also more successful in their treatment and recovery — becoming more informed decision-makers.
EPIC is available to treatment centers, social service organizations, and other groups for licensing on a fee-for-service basis, in English and Spanish.
What EPIC Stands For
The name is the method — every module is built on it.
Engaged
Participants actively shape their own recovery and life plan.
Peer-Driven
Built and facilitated by people with lived recovery experience.
Integrated
Woven into treatment, education, and community settings.
Community
Connected to local chapters, events, and peer support.
Inside the 10-Module Curriculum
Each module pairs a facilitated session with a workbook that participants keep.
Recovery Messaging
Education
Housing
Employment (Parts 1 & 2)
Finance
Leadership & Empowerment
Healthy Relationships
Holistic Health
Neuroscience of Substance Use Disorder
Recovery-specific modules — Recovery Messaging and Leadership & Empowerment — are included free of charge for partners who wish to implement them.
Flip through the EPIC workbook
Every one of the ten modules pairs a facilitated session with real workbook pages — learning objectives, guided prompts, goal-setting, and plan-it-out exercises participants keep.
This isn’t theory. It’s measured.
Participants report measurable growth across all nine life-skill pillars between intake and exit — evidence that peer-led life skills translate into real-world stability.
across categories
growth
intake to exit
Average growth from intake to exit across all program sites and offerings.
What participants walk away with
A real education plan
Participants leave knowing their next step — the degree or credential they want, the school, and how to pay for it via FAFSA and aid.
Employment readiness
Resume, interview, and workplace skills across a two-part employment module built for real hiring.
A path to stable housing
Practical housing knowledge and the resources to find and keep a safe place to live.
Financial confidence
Budgeting, banking, and money skills that turn a paycheck into stability.
Understanding their brain
A plain-language module on the neuroscience of substance use disorder — reducing shame, increasing agency.
A recovery community
Every participant is connected to a local YPR chapter for meetings, events, and ongoing peer support.
How Implementation Works
YPR runs the program end to end — or trains your team to deliver it.
Partner
We build and secure a partnership with your implementation site.
Agree
We draft and execute the agreed-upon memorandum of understanding.
Staff
We hire and train the program implementation team.
Deliver
Ten two-hour modules, generally once per week over a ten-week cycle.
Measure
We collect data and report on the efficacy of the program.
Bring My Recovery Is EPIC to your organization
Tell us a little about your team and we'll be in touch about licensing, training, and implementation.