CRAFT Resources

HelpingFamiliesHelp.com

Helping Families Help is a resource hub for parents, partners, family members, and friends of loved ones who are struggling with addictive behavior as well as for the providers who serve them. The website is based on Community Reinforcement And Family Training (CRAFT), an approach that helps support and change the environment around the struggling person to increase connection, improve communication, and encourage them towards recovery in a way that allows the families to take care of themselves in the process.

Helping Families Help offers information about CRAFT, a directory of providers who offer CRAFT-based services, a resource page listing websites, books, and videos about CRAFT, and CRAFT-based trainings and groups for families. In addition, providers can connect with community, CRAFT-based trainings and consultation groups in order to increase learning and enrich their work with families.

Whether you are a family member, a provider, or both, HelpingFamiliesHelp.com is a great way to connect with CRAFT-based resources!

Other Recommended Resources for CRAFT:

Below are a few other excellent resources about CRAFT:

Books

  • Center for Motivation and Change

    • Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change

      • A phenomenal resource that offers both practical skills as well as insight into other people's life experience on how it is to love someone engaged in an addictive cycle.

      • The above link takes you to the website for the book and includes 3 minute video about the book as well as options for purchasing the book.

    • 20 Minute Guide

      • There are two versions of the guide, one for Parents and the other for Partners. Both offer a more hands on way to practice the skills offered in Beyond Addiction, but are also comprehensive enough to stand on their own.

      • The above links go to the website on the workbooks, including access to pdfs of the chapters.

  • Dr. Robert Meyers and Dr. Brenda Wolfe

 

Other resources

  • Partnership to End Addiction

  • Addiction The Next Step

    • Crisis Toolkit

      • A series of videos for parents or partner that teach CRAFT skills as applied to some common questions.

  • SMART Recovery Family and Friends

    • Family and Friends website

    • SMART runs local and online groups where families can gain support and have a place to practice the CRAFT-based perspectives and skills

    • the SMART Recovery Family and Friends manual is available through SMART Recovery bookstore