Do you know someone battling substance use disorder? Don't wait for their rock bottom to come, the risks and costs can be catastrophic.
Available now, an on-line Workshop for Family Members, Community Leaders, Advocates and Significant Others who want to Empower Families so they are able to leverage their knowledge and influence and lead their loved ones to Choose Treatment for their substance use disorder.
Live On-Line or In Person Format
From a CRAFT training specialist
12 Lessons
Covering every topic you need
16 Hours
Course time
Flexible scheduling for this curriculum is available right now to suit your team's timeline or work week. We will customize class time to meet your needs.
A Powerful And Proven Approach To Family Support
Become a Specialist In Family Support And Mentor Others To Re-Engage With Their Loved Ones So That Recovery Becomes A Desirable Choice
Concerned Significant Others Will Learn To Uncover The Root Causes Of Their Loved One's Choice To Use Substances and How To Interject Other More Positive Alternatives
After completing the workshop you’ll be prepared to mentor families in need so they are able to understand the motivation behind their loved one's substance use and offer alternative behaviors that will reduce their desire to use.
Foundations of Good Communication
The Benefits of Active Listening
Functional Analysis of Substance Use
Windows of Opportunity
Allowing Natural Consequences
Functional Analysis of Positive Behavior
Positive Reinforcement
Levels Of Care
Practice Scenarios and Sessions
Explore Self-Care Opportunities And The Importance Of Making Self Compassion A Priority
Support concerned significant others to identify and create a personalized plan to improve their self-care and reduce their anger, anxiety and frustration.
The Importance of Self Care
The 8 Dimensions of Wellness
Establishing Healthy Boundaries
Understanding Keystone Habits
Mental Health 101
The Four Pillars of Mental Health
Coping Skills
Build Your Wellness Toolkit
Creating Your Wellness Plan
Connecting With Your Spirituality
The Happiness Scale
Learning Objectives & Outcomes
The CRAFT strategies are proven to be 70% effective at leading your loved one to choose treatment. The program also focuses on improving the concerned significant other's own self-care leading to a significant decrease in anxiety and depression.
01
Understand the reasons for substance use as well as its positive and negative consequences
Substance use often becomes a habit that is highly effective at achieving a desired outcome for the individual.
02
Learn to engage in active listening, re-establish good communication and collaboration
Humility and understanding are a key component required to alter the dynamics of the relationship and to begin a process of collaboration,
03
Set clear boundaries and apply positive reinforcement to support your loved one to choose and adopt new healthier behaviors
Establish clear boundaries for yourself and your household while exploring and supporting your loved one to make smarter, healthier, and more meaningful choices in his or her life.
04
Lead your loved one to want to choose a treatment option and recovery pathway that resonates the most with him or her
The CRAFT method is supported by empirical evidence to be 70% effective at getting your loved one to choose treatment even if he/she has previously not been successful in a program.
05
Learn the importance of self-care and develop your coping skills so you can engage with your loved one from a more humble perspective
The CRAFT method focuses on improving the mental wellness of the concerned signifcant other regardless of the choices of the identified patient.
12 Step Lesson Plan
Several of the essential skills and lessons you will learn are listed below
Good Communication
Learn the critical steps to master so you may improve your communication with your loved one such that your interactions become more balenced and productive.
Active Listening
Learn to listen more effectively particularly for cues that can help you to suggest behavioral changes that will resonate with you loved one.
Functional Analysis of Substance Use
Understand your loved ones patterns and reasons for using and not using substances
Windows of Opportunity
Understand the importace of timing with your communication as well as when it is appropriate to simply walk away.
Allowing Natural Consequences
Understand the imporatnce of allowing natural consequences to occur so that your loved one has an opportunity to experience how the real world reacts to his or her choices.
Functional Analysis of Positive Behaviors
Learn to look back and forward to identify the positive things in life that will inspire your loved one to make healthier choices.
Levels of Care & Recovery Pathways
Understand all of your loved one's options for treatment. Learn to align the setting and intensity to meet the individual needs of his or her lifestyle of preference.
The Importance of Self-Care
Learn to place your own self-care first and identify which areas may need the most nourishing so that you are ready and able to support you loved one from a healthier and more rational space.
Effective Problem Solving
Learn to probem solve more methodically and to overcome predicted obstacles. Invite your loved one to take part in the proces.
The 8 Dimensions of Wellness
Detemine the specific areas of your and your loved one's life that need the most nourishing and develop a simple wellness plan to improve them.
The Importance of Positive Reinforcement
Develop a clear reward strategy that will resonate with you loved one and serve to replace the negative substance using behaviors.
The Invitation to Treatment
Learn to prepare for the invitation to treatment by offering flexible options in collaboration with your loved one.
Get started today
Our product is best in class and we stand behind its quality. This course includes:
16 hours of live training with a CRAFT educated Family Specialist
Downloadable resourses for each lesson
1 on 1 Support from a CRAFT Specialist
Access to a practicum workbook
An established community for on-going support
Guest lecturers and speakers
4.7 out of 5.0 stars
This workshop will provide you with the skills you need to teach struggling family members how to leverage positive reinforcement and clear boundaries so they may reconnect and collaborate with their loved ones who are seeking understanding, compassion and a more personalized approach to harm reduction and treatment.
The CRAFT Workshop enabled me to help my family member who was struggling with substance use as well as taught me the importance of taking care of myself. I am know also able to provide mentorship at my church to other families who are 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 and 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 to want to change his behaviors
Wendy F
Healthcare Provider
This workshop has 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 that she can agree to.
Dorothy M
Retired Teacher K-12
You have questions. We have answers.
If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to email the instructor at Johnbuschner@icloud.com
Meet Your Trainers
John Buschner is a Peer Recovery Coach who has completed the certification requirements to provide Substance Use and Mental Health peer support in the State of NJ. John holds an MA in Criminology from Rutgers University and has fulfilled multiple roles in the recovery field for last 5 years. John is a also an individual in long term recovery with 7+ years of sobriety and has been working diligently to expand the application of the CRAFT method so that individuals who are struggling can be influenced by their family members rather than the often antiquated and hard judicial process. John is also a certified Total Family Interventionist.
Hi, I'm John Buschner your lead facilitator
Former Director of Peer Developement and Creative Services at Hope and Serenity Recovery Community Center in Sparta NJ
As Peer Recovery Specialist and student of CRAFT, I have had the opportunity to work with many families who have been struggling with a loved one caught in the throws of addiction. It is an extraordinarily frustrating and draining experience to watch a loved make harmful choices and ultimately slip away. Addiction can have a devastaing impact upon the entire family unit. More often than not, there is collateral damage as the individual closest to the addicted person begins to experience frustration, anxiety, anger and depression. The whole family is impacted negatively.
The Communituy Reinforcement and Family Training Approach (CRAFT) is one of the most effective and underulilized strategies available to family members today. Backed by years of empirical research, the CRAFT method uses the power of positive reinforcement to reward healthy behaviors while negatively reinforcing negative choices. It all boils down to family members learning to listen more closely and to provide clear, consistent communication. It requires a more understanding and collaborative approach.
The CRAFT method focuses on the importance of self-care for the individuals seeking to influence the addicted person. Nagging and emotionally charged encounters are replaced by understanding, honestly and supportive invitations to change. The anxiety and depression of the concerned significant other begins to dissipate regardless of the behavior of the loved one, while the community reinforcement strategies continue to work to influence the individual to make healthier choices and to reintegrate into the family unit.
There is so much at stake and you know your loved one better than anyone else. I look forward to teaching you the CRAFT method and seeing you in class!
Cathy Nalesnik is a Family Advocate and a Peer Recovery Coach who has completed the certification requirements to provide Substance Use peer support in the state of NJ. Cathy has a BA n Psychology and an MA in Communication Science & Disorders from Montclair State University. Cathy is a recovery advocate and CRAFT specialist who has been working with adolescents and young adults with special needs throughout her 30 year career.
Hi, I'm Cathy Nalesnik your co-facilitator
Retired Special Services Supervisor & Learning Disabilities Teacher/Consultant & Case Manager, Park Ridge, NJ
As an Ally of loved ones in the addiction spiral, I have many friends and acquaintances needing mentoring and guidance in dealing with this crisis in their family. In the past, I have taught and supervised in the field of special education with adolescents and families as a case manager, and Learning Consultant. In many instances; learning disabilities, ADHD and emotional issues have added to the underlying causes of the many reasons adolescents and adults begin using substances.
The CRAFT approach is an evidence-based program created by Robert Meyers as an attempt to re-connect with a family member at a crucial time in their life. The hope is to foster a new beginning of positive outcomes and needed respite of a negative cycle of behaviors within the family. The focus of the program is to provide the Concerned Significant Other with a pathway to their own health and peace of mind in the process; as well as to begin providing positive patterns of communication that will ultimately help the loved one to a place of recovery. The journey forward is not as daunting with others who can mentor and support your goals to accomplish a healthy life for you and your family.
