Subject: VolunteerCONNECTION - August 2021

Updates and announcements for the volunteer community.

This month's issue includes:

  • Submitting Holiday Meeting Changes

  • Helpful Hints

  • Volunteer Opportunities

  • Joe Gerstein Award Nominations

  • July Recap

  • Meetings of Interest for Volunteers

  • Take 5 Spotlight

Announcements & Reminders

Submit Holiday Meeting Changes

If your meeting will be canceled because of an upcoming holiday, please submit your holiday meeting cancellations through VolunteerHQ by Thursday, September 2nd, at 4:00 p.m. ET.

Make Changes Here

Helpful Hints

Who's Who:


New From Zoom:

  • Remember to check for updates:

    • Click here for a Zoom article with instructions on how to check for updates

  • Option to share your pronouns:

    • The setting is available through the browser version of Zoom (not the app)

    • Click profile - edit name - below "display name" - Pronouns


Volunteer Opportunities

Save-the-Date:

  • December 31, 2021: New Year's Eve Around the World

    • Featuring a day-long online meeting broken into 1-hour time slots as each time zone enters 2022

    • More details coming soon


The Fletcher Group:

  • SMART has recently formed a partnership with the Fletcher Group, a non-profit that is a consultant to owners of recovery residences that help those with opioid and other substance use disorders. SMART will provide a comprehensive array of services and materials to up to 100 Fletcher Group houses across the United States.

  • Volunteer opportunities will be shared when they are available.

2021 Joseph Gerstein Award Nominations

The Joseph Gerstein Award selection committee is calling for nominations for the 2021 Joseph Gerstein Award. If you know someone who has shown extraordinary and exemplary service to the SMART program, please submit your nomination using this link. Deadline for nominations is September 8, 2021.


Nominees for the Joseph Gerstein Award will have remarkable attributes such as:

  • Having provided long and continued service to SMART Recovery

  • Significant contributions of time and/or funds

  • Adding significantly to the science and evidence base that supports SMART’s concepts and tools

  • Championing significant new initiatives

  • Working energetically and creatively to support SMART’s activities, etc.


The award will be presented at the SMART Recovery National Conference on October 23, 2021.


Please note: Current members of SMART Recovery’s Board of Directors are not eligible.

Submit Your Nomination

July Recap

Training:

  • 247 registered for training 

  • 167 completed training 

    • 24 Meeting Host Training 

    • 101 Facilitator Training 

    • 6 Family & Friends Training 

    • 27 Facilitator and Family & Friends Training Package 

    • 15 SMART Recovery for Professionals 

Local Online/ Face-to-Face Meetings:

Public and private meetings 

  • 31 new meetings listed

  • 19 meetings removed (17 USA & 2 Canada)

    • 16 Lost facilitator (relocated, MIA, personal)

    • 2 Lost location

    • 1 No community interest

  • Net growth: 12

  • Meetings on hiatus: 422

    • USA: 390

    • Canada: 32

  • Canada Total: 239

  • USA Total: 1,774

SMART Recovery Online (SROL):

Excluding SMM, S4V, and UK 

  • Meetings: 241

  • New Registrations: 3,337 

  • Posts: 7,946

  • Logins: 40,541

24/7 Chat:

  • 157 New Chat Participants

  • 349 Participants Posted

Volunteers:

  • New Volunteers: 8

    • Facilitators: 3

    • Meeting Helpers: 2

    • Message Board Volunteers: 3

Meetings of Interest for Volunteers

SMART 4 Volunteers (S4V)

SMART FOR VOLUNTEERS (S4V) is a private SMART Recovery meeting for our volunteers.  While volunteering, people need to take time to focus on themselves. We offer a place where you can focus on your own wellbeing and recovery, with the security of being supported by your peers. This meeting has a different purpose than the SMART Meeting Management (SMM) meetings. 


This group meets on Wednesdays from 5:00 p.m. till - 6:00 p.m. ET. and is facilitated by Jasper2016. 

SMART Meeting Management (SMM) Meetings

If you are interested in furthering your meeting management skills or more smoothly handling challenges you might encounter while facilitating your meeting, this is the meeting is for you!


The SMART Meeting Management (SMM) meetings are every:

  • Monday: 10:00 p.m. ET

  • Wednesday: 8:00 p.m. ET

  • Friday: 6:00 p.m. ET


(NOTE: Zoom links for these meetings are behind the VHQ login or on SMARTCAL.)

Take 5 Spotlight

Get to Know the People Behind SMART Recovery

We’re always looking for ways to build and improve our relationship with you, our treasured volunteers. Over the years, we’ve done a few things along those lines. This time we’ve decided to make it simple and quick by having team members answer a few questions (5, to be exact) about what they do. Maybe more importantly, why they do it. Read more about the Take 5 initiative.

Meet Karin Ostroske

Meet Lorie White

Clichés aren’t necessarily just a lazy writer’s crutch. Sometimes they accurately convey a person’s character. In the case of SMART’s Office Productivity/Business Process Analyst Karin Ostroske, the phrase “Still waters run deep” is a bullseye.  For example, here is her take on what previous positions have taught her. “I’ve learned that people are people. Whatever skills I have to offer pale in comparison to the importance of meeting people where they are, eye to eye, soul to soul.”

Lorie White is the latest addition to SMART’s staff. As National Office Administrator, she’s all about best practices in operations and workflow. Given the variety of the substantive work by the crew at HQ in Mentor, you might say it’s valid to add symphony conductor to her job description. She’s prepared for whatever zaniness comes her way.

Submit Your Group Donations
to SMART Recovery

Your group donations to SMART Recovery help empower millions worldwide with tools to recover from any substance or activity addiction.


SMART Recovery is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Submit Your Group Donation

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