Support Groups Overview
You are not alone! On going help during your loved one’s treatment and recovery.
How Does Group Work Benefit Me?
Support Group learning experiences have been proven around the world to help people change their lives. Learning within a support group environment is a powerful way to understand your role in your loved one’s recovery. Well supported scientific evidence shows that studying with others makes a big difference in our learning.
Group skills training enhances capabilities to change and is used when the abilities needed to solve a problems and attain desired goals are not currently in our “behavioral repertoire” or show up in the wrong places or times. It is designed to increase our abilities so we can engage in more effective behaviors – get what we really want and do what the moment calls for.
CRAFT Connects’ training methods include definitions, illustrations with examples, modeling with guided practice and feedback. Groups help to integrate skills into daily life and generalize and increase the frequency of their use.
Trying new skills within real-world situations while finding support from other CRAFT Members will help you reflect and make sense of how things are going. At CRAFT Connect Family Support groups you will join others who are empathetic, nonjudgmental, genuine, respectful, steer clear of confrontation and imposing their own solutions. We encourage hope and compassion for all.
Family Support Group
For whom: Parents, partners, spouses, caregivers, siblings, children, friends, co-workers and members of the community — anyone that has a relationship with someone with a substance use and/or mental health disorder.
What: 18 session on going group you can join anytime.
When: Weekly, Tuesdays, 6:00 to 7:30 pm (MT)
Where: On Zoom
Why: Learning and applying CRAFT Connect principles and skills will help empower you to influence change, learn and use behavior change skills, prepare you to help your loved one choose treatment and recovery and improve the quality of your life. Clear and easy to use in group meetings as part of inpatient and outpatient treatment, recovery community work or in self-directed study with friends and family.
Group Facilitators: Kristin & John Garbett
Sample Family Support Session Outline
This is an excerpt from the Family Support FS03. Effective Communication session.
Invitation to Change (ITC) Group
For whom: Parents, partners, spouses, caregivers, siblings, children, friends, co-workers and members of the community — anyone that has a relationship with someone with a substance use and/or mental health disorder.
What: On going group you can join anytime.
When: Weekly, Thursdays, 12:00 to 1:00 pm (MT)
Where: On Zoom
Why: How to be a part of your struggling loved one’s life and support them in a way that will help them change. Presented in partnership with the Center for Motivation & Change.
Group Facilitator: Kristin Garbett