Finding CRAFT coaching around the country
Sometimes, the gap between the world of clinical research and the world of clinical services can be wide. Despite two decades of research telling us that CRAFT is an effective way to help families impacted by addiction, its still very challenging to find therapists or treatment programs who are using this counseling approach.
Thankfully, to help fill the gap in therapy services, there are a few organizations that have begun offering CRAFT based coaching and support to families across the country.
Helping Families Help provider directory is available through Sober Families to help people locate a CRAFT counselor anywhere in the country. The list is growing, and those providers who have the “Reviewed” label have verified their CRAFT-based training.
Helping Families Help Directory
The Partnership for Drug Free Kids offers free parent support over the phone by CRAFT trained volunteers. Its free, and its available in English or Spanish.
SMART Recovery Family and Friends now incorporates CRAFT into its training for facilitators of their free community support meetings for “family and friends” of people with substance use disorders.
SMART Recovery Family & Friends meeting finder
The Center for Motivation and Change, a treatment provider in New York, offers free access to their previously recorded CRAFT family classes that you an watch online. They also wrote the wonderful book Beyond Addiction, which is well worth its $14 paperback price. Most of my clients have read this book and found it helpful.
Center for Motivation and Change
Allies in Recovery, a web-based membership that uses learning modules, videos and worksheets to teach CRAFT to families. Members can post their questions to the Discussion Blog and receive professional guidance. A subscription costs 39$/year and is free to residents of Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island and Southern Florida
Cadence on-line is a web-based learning course for parents who want to use CRAFT with the help of learning modules and demonstration videos. There is a on-time fee to gain access to the learning modules, which you can share with immediate family members.
We the Village is a subscription based online learning course for loved ones who want to learn CRAFT with the help of 12 modular lessons with short videos, exercises, quizzes, and a weekly virtual coaching call with a CRAFT trained coach.
Regain Your Hope is an online class offered by a CRAFT trained fellow parent and certified coach.
Family Addiction Coaching with Patrick Doyle is a podcast featuring a CRAFT trained social worker and coach, interviewing consumers, family members and professionals about families and addiction. All episodes are free to listen to.