Family Resources for Friends/Other Family Members

Book Recommendations

The Beyond Addiction Workbook for Family and Friends
Evidence-Based Skills to Help a Loved One Make Positive Change
Jeffrey Foote, Kenneth Carpenter, Carrie Wilkens

This healing and supportive workbook offers practical, evidence-based skills to help you address substance use or other compulsive behaviors with your loved one in a productive way—without creating conflict.

Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening
Dr. Robert Meyers & Dr. Brenda Wolfe

Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change
Jeffrey Foote Ph.D, Carrie Wilkens PhD, Nicole Kosanke PhD. and Stephanie Higgs

Addict in the Family
Beverly Conyers

Find some of these books (and many more!) at the Hazelden Betty Ford Book Store.

Find Hazelden Betty Ford resources on our Amazon.com page.

Virtual Healthy Relationships Workshops

Delivered in four, 90-minute sessions, this skill-building workshop helps family members learn how to set healthy boundaries, communicate effectively with one another, clarify roles and effectively support their loved one in recovery. We offer two different workshops. Register Now

Family Services Orientation: Your first step in family support

This two-hour virtual orientation provides your family with helpful information and supportive resources—regardless of whether your loved one is in active addiction, seeking treatment, involved in some level of drug or alcohol counseling, or in recovery. Orientation incorporates insights on the effects of addiction and mental health issues on families, peer discussion and support, identification of healthy coping skills, Q&A time with family counselors, and an overview of services available to families. Register Now

Available in Español. Also available for Native Americans.

Family Program - In Person

Designed for families who have a loved one in treatment, our in-person one-and three-day programs introduce evidence-based skills and family behavioral resources to improve communication and connection. Time with patients helps educate families about the treatment and recovery process.

In-person family workshops are offered near locations in Center City and Plymouth, Minnesota; Rancho Mirage, California; and Portland (Newberg), Oregon.

Family Program - National Center for Teens and Young Adults, Plymouth, MN
• One-Day Workshop

Family Program - Center City, MN
• One-Day Workshop

Family Program - Betty Ford Center, Rancho Mirage, CA
• One-Day Workshop
• Three-Day Workshop

Family Program - Portland (Newberg), OR
• Three-Day Workshop

Empowering Recovery and Well-Being for All

Find dozens of helpful videos on every aspect of recovery on the Hazelden Betty Ford YouTube channel.

Substance Use Disorders

Understanding the science behind substance use disorders and the recovery process, with a brief overview of co-occurring disorders.

Support Groups for Friends/Family

Caring Families Chat Meeting - Tuesdays from 6-7 p.m. Central
TheDailyPledge.org - Chat Rooms

Virtual Family Support Group - Tuesdays
4:30-6 p.m. Central. Find link here: Virtual Family Support Group - Hazelden

Virtual Family Support Group - Thursdays 6:30-8 p.m. Central. Find link here: Virtual Family Support Group - Hazelden

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation offers outpatient mental health services for family members in many states. In Minnesota, these groups include Recovery Relationships and Families Affected by Addiction (FABA). Find more at: Mental Health Services | Hazelden Betty Ford

Support for Families of Addicts | Family Program | Hazelden Betty Ford

Healthy Relationships Program - Hazelden

Find an Al-Anon Electronic Meeting

Al-Anon Family Groups

Nar-Anon Family Groups

Families Anonymous

NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness

Twelve Step Alumni Meetings - Hazelden Betty Ford Chapter Meetings

Helpful Websites

Family & Friends - Nacoa

Mental and Substance Use Disorders in Families: Multimedia Resources | SAMHSA

Helping Families Help

The Invitation to Change: A Short Guide

Donate to Help Other Families

Your donation will help another family be better able to support a loved one in recovery. Click here to donate today.

Phone or Web-Based Family Coaching

Coaching is designed to help your family members repair relationships, rebuild trust and strengthen self-care skills. Through phone- and web-based sessions, Family Coaching professionals use evidence-based approaches and practices to address your family's well-being needs. Register Now

Find a Sober Coach

Convenient and confidential, Hazelden Betty Ford's Connection program helps you navigate early recovery with personalized recovery coaching.You can also receive monitoring and accountability reports, as well as random drug testing.

Videos

ShatterProof - Just Five
Delivers the most important concepts and facts regarding addiction in just five minutes.

Why Am I an Addict?
Marv Seppala shares the science behind why addiction happens, how the brain changes to create pathways that are difficult to change and how recovery can happen as it does for millions every day.

Pleasure Unwoven - Dr. Kevin McCauley
Uses the spectacular landscape of Utah’s State and National Parks to describe the brain areas involved in addiction, turns complex neuroscientific concepts into easy-to-understand visual images that will help people in recovery feel better understood, and their families and friends feel hope that recovery is possible.

Podcasts

Episode: The Journey Back to Self
How to Feel Okay Despite a Loved One's Addiction

Author Beverly Conyers offers advice for parents and loved ones in this hopeful conversation with William C. Moyers on the Let's Talk Addiction & Recovery Podcast.

Let's Talk Addiction & Recovery Podcast
Hear what leading addiction and recovery experts are talking about—addiction trends, topics and challenges as well as research, practices and advances that point the most promising way forward.