Support & Resources for Friends & Families
Magnolia Recovery Resources
Maureen Cavanagh is an educator, recovery coach, public speaker and the author of “If you love me: A Mother’s Journey through Her Daughter’s Opioid Addiction” Published by Macmillan/ Henry J. Holt.
In 2012 she founded the national nonprofit organization, Magnolia New Beginnings and the online peer support groups, Magnolia Addiction Support. She is also President of Magnolia Consulting Services, which is primarily involved with management consulting for small and large nonprofit organizations and parent peer recovery coaching.
Maureen is a CCAR trained recovery coach and family peer recovery coach and trainer, She holds a M.Ed in Education from Salem State College, an MPA in Public Administration from Suffolk University, is a trained mediator and attended Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, MA. Maureen is currently pursuing certification as a drug and alcohol counselor as well as an Arise and BRS certified family-focused interventionist.
Recovery Practices LLC
Colleen serves and privately coaches individuals, couples, and/or groups of family and/or friends affected by their loved ones’ use disorders, for their own ‘here and now’. Colleen helps others learn what ‘we can do’ to help and a step-by-step ‘how to’ help.
As your BALM® Family Recovery Life Coach, Colleen will help you get your life back, and you help your loved one get their life back too. Colleen teaches methods and practices aimed to help others heal relationships, architect a healthy relational environment, choose empowering actions, and regain lost inner calm and peace.
Colleen facilitates 12-Week BALM® Family Recovery workshops, 3 times a year, helping others experience their own transformation by implementing the 12 Principles of BALM®, Be A Loving Mirror method of family recovery. Workshop participants will learn effective communication for positive change for themselves and their loved ones.
Colleen is licensed and certified to enroll members in a Comprehensive 12-month, 24/7, online family recovery program. This one-year program encompasses a curriculum-based, evidence-based, professional, and peer-supported, safe place to learn, grow, change, and become your loved one’s BEST chance at recovery.
Magnolia New Beginnings
Dedicated to advocating for those affected by Substance Use Disorder (SUD), as well as their families and loved ones. By providing educational information and peer support, we empower families who have a loved one affected by this disease, as well as those suffering with a SUD, to make their own informed choices regarding treatment. We are keenly aware that "One size doesn't fit all', which is why the information we provide covers a myriad of situations. Our primary goal is to support individuals and families that are seeking recovery, help in maintaining that recovery, and making resources available to assist those in recovery achieve a new beginning.
Magnolia New Beginnings was born out of necessity. As the opioid crisis, and substance use disorder in general, continues to take its toll on our friends and families we at Magnolia have banded together to pass on information that we have gathered in the process of helping our own. Our goal is that no one should suffer alone and in silence or endure the stigma and shame that has been associated with this disease for far too long.
Learn to Cope
According to their site, Learn to Cope is a non-profit support network that offers education, resources, peer support and hope for parents and family members coping with a loved one addicted to opiates or other drugs.
Founded by Joanne Peterson in 2004, the organization has grown to include over 10,000 members, and has become a nationally recognized model for peer support and prevention programming.
Here's the scoop on Joanne Peterson from their brochure:
I founded Learn to Cope in 2004 out of desperation to help my son. Learn to
Cope is a support organization that offers education, resources, peer support
and hope for parents and family members coping with a loved one addicted
to opiates or other drugs. I designed Learn to Cope to offer others the support and
resources that I would have benefited from when my family was in crisis. Today my
son is in long-term recovery and I want families to have the support I struggled to
find in the beginning of my family's journey.
Learn to Cope members are people who loved their children deeply, yet still found
their families damaged by addiction. Addiction is a long road, but the more families
can educate themselves, the better they will be able to cope with their family
member's substance use and hopefully their eventual recovery. Two of the hardest
things for a family to learn are how to speak up about their painful experience and
how to support recovery without enabling continued substance use.
Young people and communities need to be educated on opiate and prescription
drug use. It doesn't matter what your zip code, education level, or income is;
addiction knows no boundaries. Addiction can begin with a legitimate prescription
for pain or as an experiment that turns into a chronic disease. Today, with the flood
of dangerous prescription drugs which are so easy to obtain, addiction can happen
in any family, even in the bathrooms of our own homes. Many young lives have been
lost and this is a tragedy. However, where there is life, there is hope.
Stay Strong,
Joanne Peterson
Founder, Executive Director
Allies in Recovery
Allies in Recovery can show you a better way. We are an online-learning platform for families whose loved one struggles with drugs or alcohol. We provide community, personalized guidance, and a scientifically-proven program to give you the skill-set you’ll need to help your loved one.
Al-Anon
At every Al‑Anon meeting, you can hear people explain how Al‑Anon worked for them. That may be the best place to start to learn about Al‑Anon—One Day at a Time.
Al‑Anon members come to understand problem drinking as a family illness that affects everyone in the family. By listening to Al‑Anon members speak at Al‑Anon meetings, you can hear how they came to understand their own role in this family illness. This insight put them in a better position to play a positive role in the family’s future.
Some research shows that when problem drinkers enter a recovery program, their chances for success are improved when they are supported by family members who are in a family recovery program such as Al‑Anon.
Families Anonymous
Families Anonymous is a 12 Step fellowship for the families and friends who have known a feeling of desperation concerning the destructive behavior of someone very near to them, whether caused by drugs, alcohol, or related behavioral problems. When you come into our rooms you are no longer alone, but among friends who have experienced similar problems. Any concerned person is encouraged to attend our meetings, even if there is only a suspicion of a problem.
Your identity is protected in our meetings. We know each other by our first names, only. Anonymity of our members is paramount to the success of our program. Not only is anonymity an underlying principle of the program, but it is so important that it is part of our name.
You have nothing to lose but your pain and anger. Read on if you are ready to find the peace and serenity that our members have found through the working of the FA program.
How To Save A Life Foundation
The brain-child of Marti Hottenstein, the How To Save A Life Foundation in Warminster, PA, was created to help people suffering with addiction, and their families. “Addiction is not a moral issue it is a disease which can be treated.How to Save a Life's goal is provide assistance to those suffering from addictive disorders receive the help they want and need. How to Save a Life is giving the chance of life that Karl D. Hottenstein did not have.
The Addict’s Mom
The Addict's Mom reaches out to the addict's mother and their families who are dealing with addiction. We invite them to join us, where they can "Share without Shame," their daily struggles, sorrows, and their victories, with other families who understand the impact of this devastating disease. We offer resources, specialty groups, personal-experience referrals, and we work to change perceptions and stigma of addiction, which saves lives. But most of all, we offer hope; and the knowledge that they are not alone in this fight.
