As part of the Public Science Collaborative’s substance use recovery work, PSC created a first in the nation, statewide recovery-ready community index (RRCI) comprised of recovery readiness scores for hundreds of Iowa communities. Since 2020, Iowa has witnessed the founding of seven recovery community organizations, including five recovery community centers and two collegiate recovery programs. Now, PSC has expanded the community-based recovery data infrastructure from 17 to 24 recovery resource and service categories and from roughly 16,000 to nearly 40,000 total community resources. The considerable expansion of the recovery data infrastructure warrants a revisit and an update to the RRCI.
In this report, PSC describes newly added recovery resources, revisions to the calculation of the RRCI, a second measure of community recovery readiness, updated rankings across four community sizes, and updated community recovery resources assessments.