Family Resources for Professionals
There is Great Hope!
Life never goes exactly as planned.
I will begin by taking you to a moment in my life that I could never have imagined. On Saturday, March 15, 2014, my wife and I were at home watching Saturday Night Live and waiting for our youngest of five children to come home from a night out.
Suddenly, we heard a loud ruckus at the side door as our son stumbled into the house.
He was crying hysterically, trying to tell us something, something really important. But he was blithering and nearly incoherent.
Panicked, we said to him, “Stevie, what happened? What happened? Tell us what happened!!”
Slowly the details emerged.
He told us that he had just lain down on the local railroad track. He was ready to take his own life...
These resources are used and promoted by Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Caron Treatment Centers and other highly-respected treatment providers. They are free resources with no sponsors or economic interests to anyone.
User’s Guide for Treatment Providers
This user’s guide was created for professionals to use these short stories as unique and informative content to help educate and support clients and their families. It’s based on twelve gritty, relatable, and highly personal short stories about a teenager’s struggle with addiction, and the lessons learned by his father during his difficult journey supporting the recovery process. As Caron Treatment Centers and other providers found, this guide helps prompt important dialogue and insights and provides hope to clients and their families.
One-Pager for Client Families
This one-pager was created for professionals to share with clients and their families about these short stories. It highlights the most important things that families will learn such as hope, the science of addiction, parental tools to promote healthy behaviors, the recovery process – Stages of Change, and common traps such as lying, manipulating and playing parents off each other. The one-pager is meant to introduce the “Love the Kid, Hate the Disease” website to families and promote its use.
