Recovery Life Collective
CRAFT Family Workshop
Your clients' families are struggling — and without the right tools, they can unknowingly sabotage recovery. The CRAFT Family Support Workshop gives your facility a fully facilitated, evidence-based program that transforms families from barriers into recovery catalysts.
Research consistently shows that family involvement is one of the strongest predictors of treatment success — yet most treatment centers leave families without structured, evidence-based support.
Without structured guidance, family members default to enabling behaviors — removing consequences, covering up, and emotionally rescuing — that delay treatment and extend active addiction.
Clients whose family members lack communication and boundary-setting skills are significantly more likely to leave treatment AMA or relapse within 90 days of discharge.
Anxiety, depression, and resentment in family members creates a toxic home environment that your clients return to after treatment — erasing clinical progress.
Families calling your admissions line are your highest-value referral source. Without a structured family program, you have no engagement pathway for concerned family members who aren't ready to force the conversation.
The CRAFT Family Support Workshop closes this gap — and your facility delivers it without adding a single hour of clinical staff time.
The Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) approach is among the most empirically validated family intervention strategies in existence — yet vastly underutilized. Backed by decades of peer-reviewed research by Dr. Robert Meyers (University of New Mexico), it outperforms traditional Al-Anon and intervention approaches by 3–5x.
We bring this curriculum directly to your clients' family members through weekly live workshops — fully facilitated by NJ-certified CRAFT specialists. Your facility adds a powerful clinical differentiator with zero additional staffing overhead.
Treatment Engagement Rate
CRAFT-trained families successfully guide their loved one to choose treatment
Reduced Family Distress
Participants report significant reductions in anxiety and depression — regardless of their loved one's choices
Rotating Weekly Topics
Clients' families can join at any session point — continuous enrollment model
We customize a weekly session schedule around your facility's calendar and client census.
Your clinical team refers families directly to the workshop — we handle enrollment and facilitation.
Families attend live (in-person or virtual) weekly sessions taught by certified CRAFT specialists.
Families leave equipped to engage, set boundaries, and invite their loved ones to sustained recovery.
A comprehensive rotating curriculum that equips concerned significant others with the exact skills needed to influence their loved one toward treatment — and protect their own mental health in the process.
Master the critical steps to improve communication so interactions become balanced, productive, and free of conflict.
Learn to listen for behavioral cues that surface windows of opportunity to introduce healthier alternatives.
Understand the patterns and motivations behind why a loved one uses — and doesn't use — substances.
Master the timing of conversations and the importance of strategic disengagement when emotions are elevated.
Rotating weekly format — families can enroll and begin at any session. No sequential prerequisite required.
Workshop graduates consistently report improved communication, reduced anxiety, and greater confidence in supporting their loved ones toward recovery.
"The CRAFT Workshop enabled me to help my family member who was struggling with substance use, and also taught me the importance of taking care of myself. I am now able to provide mentorship at my church to other families experiencing similar issues."
Maureen O.
Child Care Professional
"As a pastor and advocate, I am now able to empower family members in my congregation to be able to influence their loved ones who are struggling to overcome their addiction."
James M.
Minister & Recovery Advocate
"After completing this workshop I understood the importance of taking better care of myself so I could interact and collaborate with my son more calmly, and help him want to change his behaviors."
Wendy F.
Healthcare Provider
"This workshop taught me that my husband and I must have clear boundaries when dealing with my daughter, but we can also support her with compassion and understanding and present treatment options she can agree to."
Dorothy M.
Retired Teacher, K-12
Your clients' families will be guided by NJ-certified CRAFT specialists who have trained directly with the creator of the method and bring years of lived and clinical experience.
Lead Facilitator
John is a Peer Recovery Coach and certified substance use and mental health peer support specialist in the State of NJ. He completed CRAFT training with Robert Meyers, PhD — the creator of the CRAFT method — in 2020, and has been teaching families this empowering curriculum for several years. As a person in long-term recovery, John brings a unique combination of clinical knowledge and lived experience to every session.
Co-Facilitator
Vance brings more than 8 years of direct experience in addiction treatment, recovery and prevention. He has been teaching the Certified Peer Recovery Specialist course since 2017 and serves on multiple county substance use and mental health support boards in NJ. He is passionate about equipping communities, families, and allies with the tools needed to effectively support people in recovery.
Have more questions? Email us at John@recoverylifecollective.com
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