Sponsored by New Roads Behavioral Health (NRBH)
A FREE program for family members and friends who are concerned about someone close to them with a mental health or substance use disorder.
Become a NRBH Member
To activate your account, please make sure to“VERIFY” the emails sent from Squarespace.
Contact techsupport@craftconnectfs.com for help.
How You Benefit
A Safe Place
You are not alone! On going group help during your loved one’s recovery. Share the “journey” with other parents, spouses, partners, siblings, and friends who also have a loved one struggling with a mental health and or substance use disorder.
3 Unique Meetings a Week
Family Support — Wednesdays, 6:00 to 7:30 pm (MT)
DBT Skills — Tuesdays, 7:30 to 8:30 pm (MT)
Invitation to Change — Thursdays, 12:00 to 1:00 pm (MT) beginning February 15.
Learn Skills
Develop the skills and confidence to improve your and your family’s wellbeing. Research supported training, all on Zoom, that helps both you and your loved one, facilitated by trained family support specialists.
Skills Coaching
Access to 30 minute non clinical one-on-one peer skills coaching sessions by trained family support specialists
Events & Information
Monthly Community Discussion Series - Specific topics vary. An opportunity to learn, ask questions and share your experience.
Newsletter - Weekly family support email with continued learning and support information.
Weekly Groups
-
Family Support
Learn proven principles and skills to help encourage your loved ones who is struggling with addiction and or mental health disorder to make choices that lead to progress and healing. Repeating 18 session cycle.
-
Invitation to Change
You can be a part of your loved one’s life, and you can have a positive impact. You can support them in a way that will help them change. Specific topics vary. Presented in partnership with the Center for Motivation & Change.
-
DBT Skills
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is an effective treatment for people who have difficulty controlling their emotions and behaviors. This combination of skills training, movie clips and music aims to help people create a “life worth living”. Repeating 24 session cycle.
Have a question before becoming a NRBH Member?
Message Us.
Sample Family Support Session Outline
This is an excerpt from the Family Support FS03. Effective Communication session.
-
1. Be brief. Resist the urge to bring up too much. Keep it simple.
2. Be specific and clear. Focus on one thing.
3. Be positive while communicating what you want. Avoid blaming, name calling and over generalization.
4. Label your feelings. Describe the emotional impact on you in a calm, non-judgmental, non-accusatory way.
5. Offer an understanding statement. Try seeing it from the other person’s point of view.
6. Accept partial responsibility. Share a small piece of the problem.
7. Offer to help.
-
Description text goes hereDiscuss: What do you notice about the principles of PIUS communication that might be different from how you have been communicating?
Negative “You” vs. PIUS statements.
As we read through the following examples of negative “You” and positive “I” (PIUS) statements think about the different messages they deliver.
Negative “You”: You always get drunk and embarrass me.
PIUS: I enjoy being with you when you don’t drink. I know it’s not always easy for you, so that makes it really special.
Negative “You”: You never listen to me when I’m talking to you.
PIUS: I understand that some of our conversations are upsetting, I’d love it if you could help me work them out.
-
Step 1. Write down a verbal/text or email interaction between you and your loved.
Step 2. Using the seven principles of PIUS communication re-write what you might say the next time the same situation occurs to limit defensiveness and not lead to an argument.
I... (HOW DO YOU FEEL?)
when you...(DESCRIBE THE BEHAVIOR OR CONDITION)
because... (WHY DO YOU FEEL THIS WAY?)
I would like... (WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAPPEN?)
I know... (YOU UNDERSTAND THE OTHER’S POSITION)
How can I help... (YOUR WILLINGNESS TO SHARE RESPONSIBILITY)
Step 3. Share your ”before and after” statements with the group.
What People Are Saying
My expectations have changed due to the knowledge I have gained.
I am able to “self-regulate” and respond. I think about my words and actions instead of just reacting.
Our communication is calm and very open. I feel confident holding a conversation safely, without major blow ups
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation welcomes CRAFT Connect as the newest member of its innovative Patient Care Network.
To learn more, read our March 14, 2022 blog post
