READ

Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change

Beyond Addiction: The Workbook for Family & Friends

Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening

SMART Family & Friends Handbook

MEET & CONNECT

SMART Recovery Family and Friends - supportive group meetings for those with
loved ones who are struggling with addiction - a great alternative to Al-Anon meetings (FREE)

CMC Family Mondays - “Family Mondays are 1-hour learning and support sessions open to anyone who loves someone struggling with substance use.” ($15/meeting)

Helping Families Help Groups - group meetings grounded in CRAFT - Community Reinforcement And Family Training (this is the approach I ground my own work in)

Al-Anon Family Groups - “Al-Anon members are people, just like you, who are worried about someone with a drinking problem.” (FREE)

Alateen Groups - “Alateen is a peer support group for teens who are struggling with the effects of someone else's problem drinking.” (FREE)

LEARN & TRAIN

Invitation To Change Workshop - “Our Invitation to Change Approach® (ITC) challenges those stigmatizing, ineffective messages about substance use that are so prevalent. We bring evidence-based ideas together with kindness, so that you can support your loved one in a way that is genuinely helpful and feels right.”

Helping Families Help - this group holds regular events and trainings for families and they have a really great resource page.