**If you are in need of financial assistance, please feel free to click this link here to register with financial aid applied: link

 

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Caregiver Workshops - For families who have a parent/caregiver that struggles with substance use (geared towards parents and caregivers who have children between the ages of 5-13)
 

On Wednesdays at 6-7:30 pm Central Time: dates opening up regularly as the workshops fill up. Please see dates to the left and register for a time that works for you. This program is 4 consecutive workshops, from the date of your first attended workshop.

Are you a parent/or caregiver that loves someone that struggles with substance use and are not sure how to support your children in this process? What do you say to them... how do you help them feel safe...I don't how to answer their questions?? Help! 

These 4 consecutive 90-minute workshops have been developed to specifically support you and provide you with helpful skills to navigate what to say to these children, how to support them when they are struggling and help them build important skills to build their resiliency!

It also provides skills to increase your own wellbeing. We believe that families, caregivers, parents and others are a vital part of this process, and we want to make sure you have the information and support needed to navigate this journey!         

The skills taught in this program are grounded in an evidenced-based approaches, communication guidelines and resiliency building that provide effective skills for parents and caregivers to feel more confident in talking with the children in their lives. 

 

Workshop Details

What do I tell the kids?

This workshop will provide evidence-based effective communication skills that will increase your confidence in having effective conversations with your kids and family. How to provide a safe space for children to share how they feel. This will also guide in navigating topics that feel tricky!

How do I get them to talk with me!?

This workshop will guide you in building trust an atmosphere of trust in your home, how to practice it throughout the week and create space where you all can open up.

How can I prevent their own substance use?? 

This workshop will provide you with the skills to build resiliency skills in your kids. Resiliency is an important protective factor that is shown to reduce the likelihood of addiction. 

Parenting is already hard! How do I manage this too?!

This workshop will provide you with evidence-based problem-solving skills to address building your self-care which is important for parenting/caregiving and recovery!  

These group workshops benefit participants by gaining proven skills to support healthier choices, improved relationships, and better recovery outcomes.  Learning skills and preparing for situations before they occur helps family members feel empowered to respond versus react.  

 

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Optional Caregiver Coaching through Family Coaching

While these workshops alone will provide beneficial skills, we have seen the benefit of combining these with individualized coaching. We strongly recommended this combination as coaching sessions are individualized and instrumental in applying the skills learned in workshops to meet your goals and better your own wellbeing. If you would like more information on adding 6, 30-minute coaching sessions, please click here to register or email families@hazeldenbettyford.org for more information.

 
 

Program Details, Fee, & Terms 

Use the link to the left to register and provide your information. You will be registering for a series of 4 consecutive educational group workshops, 90 minutes each.  All workshops are held on specific dates and times, see times listed to the left, and click "Register Online". The workshops are consecutive and the dates of the workshops would depend on the date of your first workshop, for example, if you started today, it would be 4 weeks consecutively from there that you would plan on attending the group. 

If you also seek out Individual coaching sessions, those can be scheduled weekly at a time that works for you.  All workshops and coaching sessions are conducted virtually via WebEx. 

This 4-week program is $300 per participant. Payment for the full program is requested prior to starting. If you need financial aid, please see the note above and request support. Insurance does not cover the cost of this program. After registering you will receive an email confirming your registration with information on next steps. The Healthy Relationship Workshops are an approved FSA/HSA expense.

 

 

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What families have gained from our other workshop series:

 "This program was vital at helping me find myself and learning how to support my person more effectively." 

"The workshops, combined with coaching provided me the best chances of knowing how to handle relapses and more compassion and insight, along with the skills to address it. I no longer felt crazy." 

"This program gave me the confidence to know that I could handle more than I realized." 

"Each different part of this program was set up to give me the best support, the peer interactions in workshops were supportive, which helped me better understand the skill and the coaching helped me apply it to my life"

"I feel more equipped because of these workshops!!!"

"I have more money now, because I am not always intervening all the time!"

 
 

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Please click here to view the Terms and Conditions for Participating. When you are registering, you will be asked to agree to these Terms and Conditions. If you have further questions, please feel free to reach out.  

 
 

All sessions are presented live, via Webex. To download the Webex app, click here. The link to join each workshop will be emailed to you prior to each session.  

 
 

Helpful Reminders 

• In order to participate, you will need to make sure your device/computer has video and microphone capabilities. Thank you! 
• You will receive a generic confirmation email once you have registered.  If you do not receive this, please check your Junk mailbox for a message from online@hazelden.info. If not there, please try registering again and click on the final step: "submit registration". 
• You will receive an email from the family team with more details about next steps. 

 
 

For questions, please call or email us at: 1-800-344-6132 OR families@hazeldenbettyford.org 

Program facilitators are all credentialed professionals with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.