Family Support Navigation services were developed to help the loved ones of those struggling with substance use disorders. If you are impacted by someone’s addiction and need help finding services for them or services to help you and/or your family, our program will help connect you to the services in our community that meet your needs. Our goal is to help the whole family find Recovery. FSN services take on a holistic approach, one that incorporates the strengths of all treatment and recovery agencies in our community.
Common reasons someone picks up the phone to talk to our FSN:
- Your family been impacted by addiction and you aren’t sure how to help.
- To find treatment for your loved one.
- Navigating the system of addiction treatment, mental health and other needed agencies.
- To navigate the questions to ask when choosing treatment and navigating confidentiality.
- Finding Intervention services.
- To take classes to learn tools of communication, understanding and dealing with trust issues, boundary setting, letting go of resentments, learning about the basic science of addiction, understanding recovery basics for your family.
- Finding Family Support Groups.
- Connection to Al-anon Groups.
- Finding counseling services.
- To find Parenting classes.
- Finding Fun sober activities and community events.
- And so much more! If you family is looking for it, we will try to connect you to it!
Family Support Navigation Services are a significant addition to Oneida County services putting a strong focus on meeting the needs of family members and not just the person struggling with the addiction. The Family Support Navigator is based at Center for Life in Recovery, Inc. and is funded through Oneida County by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (NYS OASAS).
How can I get my loved one into Recovery?
It’s hard loving someone and trying to help them find recovery. Knowing what they need to do sometimes feels easy, and if they just followed your advice, they might really be fine, right? Through the arguments, begging, pleading, and sometimes nagging, we feel like it’s never going to get better.
What if I told you, there is a method that has been successful in actual research with families just like you, 70% of the time? A method that helps get loved ones to reduce their use, go to treatment or other recovery programs, while it increases wellness with the addition of decreasing the stress of the whole family. I’m so relieved to share, this does exist, and we offer this training at Center for Family Life and Recovery, Inc.
Learning this method is currently at no cost to the participant(s).
Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)
CRAFT was developed by Dr. Robert Meyers. Through the skills training, loved ones learn how to communicate and engage with someone differently, see the situation in a bigger picture assessing different impacts and behaviors, manage expectations and boundaries, and really help engage someone into their recovery process. A person must own their recovery, at the same time, those involved offer unique expertise in a persons’ addiction and behaviors. Using this expertise and training, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Families share that they are thankful to have a way to really feel like they can make a difference instead of feeling helpless. I’m so pleased to share that most of our families see a change in how they feel and how their loved one responds within a few weeks.
Understanding Recovery is a long-term life process, it can feel great to have some control in truly making a difference and seeingresults, more in the now. Our family skills classes meet Tuesdays at 5:15 pm, to join us or to schedule your one on one appointment with our Family Support Navigator trained in CRAFT, call 315-733-1709.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
We are in a time where it is becoming all too often grandparents are facing the unique challenge of raising their grandchildren due to substance use, mental health, and incarceration. The struggles stream from “How do I save my child while raising my grandchild?”, to “How do I find my life again?”, to “How do I raise a child in this new world of electronics and other challenges that were foreign to us years ago?” You are not alone in this, a great group of men and women face similar challenges together in an environment that is welcoming to the struggles and joys that this unplanned path can bring.
Letting Go of Resentments
Addiction. It affects so much of how we live. It’s natural to have some negative feelings about how life has been affected and changed. Resentments do not have to be deep seated relationship destroying experiences. Sometimes a resentment is that seemingly little thing that we are upset over even after some time. We hold on to that anger and negative feeling for a reason.
Bigger resentments can also be incredibly powerful, devastating, and halting. They are the things that hold us down and often keep us from moving forward in our lives and relationships. While we so desperately want to let go, it can sometimes just be so hard.
This class session is designed as an outlet to explore our resentments from the little stuff to the devastating. We are going to look at why we hold on to our resentments and how holding on has both served us and hindered us. We’ll gain an understanding of what letting go means and look at our readiness to move through the resentments. Practicing specific tools, we will work to move towards acceptance, change, regaining our personal control in the situation, and if ready, forgiveness.
