Changes in responsibilities at work or home, relocating, or focusing on your lifestyle balance are just some of the reasons that you may decide to stop facilitating your SMART Recovery meeting. We want you to do what is best for you and we want to help you make sure the meeting is available for the participants who have come to depend on the meeting being there.

Here are some ways that we can work together to make sure the meeting remains accessible in your absence.

• Talk to the regulars in your meeting to see if anyone has completed facilitator training and would like to take the meeting over.

• If you have a regular who isn't trained and would like to be, let us know. We can work with them to get a scholarship if needed and keep the meeting open while they complete the training.

• If there is nobody in your group that can take over as the facilitator, reach out to VolunteerHQ as soon as possible. We may be able to find a facilitator in the area that is willing to take on an established meeting. If the meeting is an online meeting, we can ask facilitators from across the country to help fill in until a more permanent replacement can be found.