Families Against Addiction

MISSION STATEMENT
Families Against Addiction Inc. is a nonprofit organization created to remove the stigma of addiction. The group focuses on families that are effected by their loved ones, who have a substance abuse disorder plus any co-occurring mental health disorders. Families Against Addiction Inc. gives you an alternative choice from the traditional 12 step programs. Families Against Addiction Inc. specifically focuses on each family member, helps identify their issues, solution focused to develop new coping skills to reach a healthy balance in life. Families Against Addiction Inc. is knowledge driven Motto: EDUCATE CHANGE LIVE.
EDUCATE CHANGE LIVE
• Educate: Understanding how addiction and mental health has impacted the family unit. Knowing the cycle of addiction and how the disease concept relates to the current drug crises. Aware of drug addiction and mental health advocacies. Informed healthy decisions based on realistic findings.
• CHANGE: Implementing new communication skills. Acknowledging emotions and feelings at the height of a crisis and throughout the analytical process. Developing new thought patterns to alter negative attitudes by instilling hope and change. Maintaining healthy habits by examining objective realities. Focusing on the facts remove negative behavior.
• LIVE: Families begin to realize that their self-worth is important and start to have a healthier relationship within the family unit. Being able to empower oneself leads to creating an identity valuable to the reunification of one’s family unit. Implementing various skills learned in support group is an ongoing life lessons.
Support group services: set in a nonjudgmental setting, which allows family members to tell their stories, while facilitators pay attention to the way members perceive their family dynamic. An analysis on how the pattern flows between environment and family is taken into account. Autonomy is the right to make critical decisions about one’s own destiny which is encouraged. Referrals resources related to individual circumstance is given when appropriately needed.