VolunteerCONNECTION - November 2021

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Subject: VolunteerCONNECTION - November 2021

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This issue includes:

Announcements & Reminders

Holiday Meetings Changes

We are anticipating an increase in meeting requests due to the holidays. Please submit your Winter Holiday Meeting Changes at least three days before the effected date.

Helpful Hints

New Family & Friends Toolbox:

We are excited to announce that we have launched a Family & Friends Toolbox! These PDFs work alongside the use of the Family & Friends Handbook.
- You can find a link to these PDFs on the main Toolbox page on our website, under the Participant Toolbox section. A further expansion of a Family & Friends Toolbox is expected, but we wanted to launch these PDFs for your immediate use.
- They can be found at: https://www.smartrecovery.org/kindlehb/

Hiding Closed Captions:

If you or anyone finds closed captions to be distracting in Zoom meetings, the transcript can be hidden. You would click the arrow on the live transcript button then "Hide Transcript".

Volunteer Opportunities

PAL2 Study

SMART Recovery is participating in a large research study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to collect data on a range of mutual-help alternatives for addiction, including SMART Recovery. The study, called the Peer Alternatives for Addiction 2 (PAL2) Study, builds on a prior study by the same team (PAL1) and involves study of diverse mutual-help group options—including SMART Recovery.

The study design involves online surveys with 800 people, including 200 from SMART Recovery. To obtain as many participants as possible, we encourage you to participate.

Study participants:

Will receive Amazon gift cards totaling up to $115
U.S. residents only
Must be 18+
Have attended (or led) a meeting in the past 30 days
Individuals surveyed for PAL1 may not participate in PAL2

Join the Study

The Fletcher Group RCOE initiative

Please check VolunteerHQ periodically for updates regarding this initiative.

October Recap

Training

271 registered for training
150 completed training
- 16 Meeting Host Training
- 69 Facilitator Training
- 4 Family & Friends Training
- 33 Facilitator and Family & Friends Training Package
- 28 SMART Recovery for Professionals
5 Onsite Trainings
- 85 graduated

Local Online/ Face-to-Face Meetings

Public and private meetings

26 new meetings listed
51 meetings removed (51 USA & 0 Canada)
- 7 Lost facilitator (relocated, MIA, personal)
- 1 Lost location
- 1 Low attendance
- 42 Meeting list audit
Net growth: -25

SMART Recovery Online (SROL)

Excluding SMM, S4V, and UK

Meetings: 270
New Registrations: 3,604
Posts: 8,603
Logins: 40,437

24/7 Chat

153 New Chat Participants
340 Participants Posted

Volunteers

New Volunteers: 7
- Meeting Facilitators: 4
- Meeting Helpers: 2
- Message Board Volunteers: 1

Upcoming Events

A Year-in-Review Community Townhall

Join us on Wednesday, December 8^th at 1:00 p.m. ET

As 2021 winds to a close, President Bill Greer and Executive Director Mark Ruth, want to take a minute to reflect on everything that we, as a SMART community, have accomplished and the impact we have made to those in recovery, in the last year.

The Zoom event is free with registration.

The Zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before event. We hope to see you there!

Registration closes Monday, December 6th at 11:59 p.m. ET.

New Year's Eve Around the World

Save-the-Date!

December 31, 2021
- Featuring a day-long online meeting broken into 1-hour time slots as each time zone enters 2022
- Special guests include: Dr. Joe Gerstein, Dr. Tom Horvath, Mike Hooper, Ted Perkins, plus many more!
- More details coming soon

Meetings of Interest for Volunteers

SMART 4 Volunteers (S4V)

SMART 4 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: