CRAFT Family Support
The CRAFT model helps individuals affected by a loved one’s substance misuse to intervene and help them seek treatment.
CRAFT Training Designed to Help Families Recover
When a loved one is affected by substance use disorder everyone around them is affected, including their family. The CRAFT Family Support program is designed to provide those families with the tools and support needed to intervene and help loved ones with substance use disorder recover.
CRAFT has been proven to:
- Help families reinforce positive behavior that moves their loved one toward treatment
- Help reduce a loved one’s alcohol and drug use
- Improve the lives of concerned family and friends
Upcoming IN CRAFT Groups
The CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) program is a non-confrontational, evidence-based intervention for helping families affected by addiction. It helps individuals to develop effective strategies for helping a loved one struggling with substance use disorder seek treatment, and for coping themselves.
The Overdose Lifeline CRAFT Program focuses on positive reinforcement, rapport building, communication, problem-solving, motivation, substance use pattern identification, the how and when of intervention, safety precautions, and more.
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7 of 10 Loved Ones
enter addiction treatment as a result of the CRAFT model
*according to multiple studies, across a range of substances and settings.
Find Indiana CRAFT groups
Interested in finding an Indiana CRAFT group for yourself, a family, friend or loved one? Visit our CRAFT Indiana Facilitators Directory and find a trained facilitator in your community.
Since CRAFT launched in Indiana, it has grown at a rapid pace, proving both the effectiveness and the need for this evidence-based program. To find an upcoming group, visit our CRAFT event page.
The CRAFT program was developed by Robert Meyers, PhD, and is a scientifically based intervention designed to help families engage addiction treatment-resistant individuals into treatment. CRAFT has been studied and proven effective in getting addicted individuals into treatment.
In addition, concerned significant others (CSOs) who attend the CRAFT program benefit by becoming more independent with reductions in depression, anxiety, and anger symptoms. CRAFT can and does heal the family.
Overdose Lifeline uses a model adapted by The Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness (USARA) from the CRAFT program developed by Robert Meyers, PHd.
This model uses individuals with lived experience (peers) often called Family Peer Coaches and involves a 12-week workshop with an accompanying workbook to teach families behavioral and motivational strategies for interacting with their loved ones.
The 12-week group teaches loved ones/CSOs skills to help them understand and cope with addiction while finding there is hope for recovery.
The Overdose Lifeline model is expanded to include additional evidence-based resources from the Center for Motivation and Change.
Overdose Lifeline is trained to deliver the 12-week model and through funding from the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA) Overdose Lifeline trains others to deliver CRAFT across the state of Indiana. CRAFT Facilitator training provides up to 12 CE credits from the State of Indiana. Funding also allows for technical support to expand the program throughout Indiana.
About Robert Meyers, PhD
Robert Meyers has been in the addiction field for 39 years with 23 of those years being at the University of New Mexico. He is currently the director of Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D., & Associates and a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addiction. Information about the certification and fees can be found on Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D. website.