Subject: VolunteerCONNECTION - December 2022

Updates and announcements for the volunteer community.

Announcements & Reminders

New Year's Eve - Around the World

This special event is a celebration of community by observing together the arriving new year in each time zone.


This event starts December 31st at 5:30 a.m. ET and ends January 1st at 3:30 a.m. ET. You don't want to miss out on this fun day of community, celebration, and cheer. 

The Season of Giving

Over the past several years, we've seen unprecedented need for our support, as individuals lived first with the isolation of COVID-19 and now the uncertainties of a disrupted global economy.

 

Simply put, achieving secure recovery in these times is as hard as it's ever been for our participants. Please help us be there for them.

 

Will you please consider a year-end, tax-deductible gift by December 31st to help someone’s mother, father, spouse, partner, brother, sister, child, relative, neighbor, or friend? 


Thank you!

Webinar Opportunity - Save-the-Date

As part of SMART’s ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, we are hosting a free webinar on January 24, from 8-9 p.m. ET.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Kristine De Jesus, Executive Director and Founder of Students Recover. Students Recover is an organization dedicated to creating, “a radically inclusive environment that honors the inherent worth and value of every person.”


The webinar will highlight the importance of diversity, what it looks like, and why it is important to create intentional spaces for the BIPOC community.


Mark your calendars now, more details will be provided soon!

Do You Know of a Recovery Home That Could Use Successful Life Skills at No Cost?

Through our partnership with The Fletcher Group and a grant from the Elevance Foundation, SMART Recovery is now able to offer our Successful Life Skills course to recovery homes in six states: California, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, and Virginia.

Upcoming Continuing
Educational Opportunities

Motivational Interviewing Refresher Course

Join us on Saturday, January 7th at 11:00 a.m. ET for the Motivational Interviewing Refresher Course.


Topics will include:

  • Review of OARS and DEARS

  • Tips and suggestions for Change Talk

  • Why Reflective Listening is important

  • How to develop discrepancy

  • Which tools work with which stage of change

  • Practice!


Cost:

  • Free


Prerequisites are Completion of:

  • GSF-201 Facilitator Training

  • GSF-203 Facilitator with F&F Training

  • GSF-301 Professional Training

  • Any of our Onsite Facilitator Training (OST)


Training will not be held unless there are a minimum of ten people registered.


Registration opens December 17th and closes December 24th at 11:59 p.m. ET


To Register:

Click this link: https://smartrecoverytraining.org/register/start/

Under Training Offerings:

  • Select OST Onsite Training from the drop down,

  • Enter the Training ID number under Training ID #OST20230107-MIOH
    (make sure there are no spaces)

  • Fill out your information

  • Click register

  • You will receive an email letting you know that our Training team has received your information.

  • The Zoom link and Meeting handouts will be sent out the Monday or Tuesday the week of the scheduled training.

Helpful Hints

Requesting a Certificate of Insurance

If you are a facilitator, in the United States, who is asked to provide a Certificate of Insurance to the location of your meeting, the National Office can help.


Email: information@smartrecovery.org 

and include the following: 

  • Meeting number 

  • Location name and address 

  • Your name and contact information 


Please allow five business days for processing.

Meetings of Interest for Volunteers

To see a full list of meetings and supports available for our volunteers, please check out the Facilitators Training and Support page.

Volunteer Recognition

As we close out 2022, we want to take a moment to recognize all of our SMART Recovery Volunteers. Your dedication to participants, each other, and SMART Recovery as a whole is inspiring. Thank you for everything you do. You are appreciated! 

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.

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