Weekly CRAFT Groups offers family members a chance to learn how to take care of themselves and reconnect with their values, regardless of their loved one's recovery. Every week, family members come together and discuss a different topic.

  • What is addiction?

    KNOWLEDGE:
    1. ) Improve functioning of family members-emotional, physical, relationships
    2. Understanding the science of addiction
    3. Learn about the symptoms of withdrawal
    SKILLS & ACTIVITIES:
    1. Happiness Scale

  • The Roadmap

    KNOWLEDGE:
    1. Learn about internal and external triggers
    2. Learn about the mind of your loved one through emotions and behaviors.

    SKILLS & ACTIVITIES:
    1. Identify common using behavior

  • How to Communicate Effectively

    KNOWLEDGE:
    1. Understand why communication is important
    2. Learn the 7 tips for Positive Communication
    3. Learn to roll with resistance

    SKILLS & ACTIVITIES:
    1. Build on what has and hasn't worked in the past
    2. Plan a conversation

  • How to give Positive Reinforcement

    KNOWLEDGE
    1. Learn about positive reinforcers and rewards
    2. Learn the difference between enabling and positive reinforcement

    SKILLS
    1. Recognize the signs of substance use
    2. Generate a list of potential rewards
    3. Plan the delivery of one reward this week

  • How to Stop Enabling Addiction

    KNOWLEDGE
    1. Understand the importance of withholding a planned reward

    ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
    1. Create additional rewards to withhold at times of substance use
    2. Prepare to communicate the plan to withhold the reward contingent on use

  • Allow for Natural Consequences

    KNOWLEDGE
    1. Understand what unintentional support of substance-using behavior looks like
    2. Identify common unintentional support you engage in and the result of this

    ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
    1. Select a situation to allow natural consequences
    2. Prepare to navigate potential problems in allowing natural consequences

  • You Deserve To Thrive

    KNOWLEDGE
    1. Understand that your well-being is important and your quality of life affects the care you give
    2. Understand the value of a reality check as a foundation for making changes

    ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
    1. Complete the Happiness Scale
    2. Identify an area to make a change in

  • Treatment Options

    KNOWLEDGE
    1. Learn “motivational hooks”
    2. Learn “windows of opportunity”

    ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
    1. Identify motivational hooks specific to your loved one
    2. Identify windows of opportunity specific to your loved one

  • Relapse and Recovery

    KNOWLEDGE
    1. Understand the importance of supporting change (which may include failure)
    2. Learn about self-efficacy and why it's helpful

    ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
    1. Objectively assess relapse worry
    2. Aid in relapse prevention, including exercises to complete together

  • Relationship Progress

    KNOWLEDGE
    1. Learn how to support healthy activities for your loved one
    2. Learn how to identify areas for improvement in your relationship happiness

    ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
    1. Modified Roadmap for positive activities
    2. Modified Happiness Scale for relationships