| Celebrating Families! 2025 Edition to be Released in April
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NACoA is pleased to announce our significant programmatic update for the Celebrating Families! curriculum. Following the successful transition of the curriculum to an online platform in 2024, we have focused on enhancing the content, expanding resources, and modernizing the materials to better support facilitators, families, and communities.
The latest updates incorporate the most current research on family recovery, trauma-informed care, and evidence-based strategies to promote family healing. New tools and techniques have been integrated to empower facilitators and improve program delivery, ensuring that families receive the highest level of support in their healing journey.
To assist sites and organizational trainers with this transition, NACoA will be hosting an informational webinar next month. This session will provide a comprehensive overview of the curriculum enhancements and offer guidance on best practices for implementation. Stay tuned for a formal announcement with details on the webinar schedule and how to access these valuable updates.
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Why Organizations Should Support NACoA and Become Affiliate Members
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For 42 years, the National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA) has been the unwavering voice for children living in families impacted by alcohol or opioid use disorders. These children — 1 in 5 in the United States — often endure pain, isolation, and fear in silence. They are among the first hurt and the last helped. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Through NACoA’s advocacy, education, and support programs, we ensure that these children find hope, healing, and resilience. By becoming an Affiliate Member, your organization will play a crucial role in transforming the landscape of resources for children affected by parental substance use disorder.
Learn more about becoming a NACoA Affiliate Member helping children and families heal, and stand with use to be the voice for these children.
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NACoA Speaking at the P4P Day Conference at Henry Ford Maplegrove
Friday, April 11th 8:30 am – 3 pm
NACoA’s Director of Children’s Programs Peggy McGillicuddy, MEd, CTSS is proud to be presenting Help, Hope, and Healing: Recovery for Children and Teens Living with Substance Use Disorder. This event is being held at the Providers for Providers Network to help collaborators connect, learn, and grow together as healthcare professionals in Michigan.
Learn More and to Register>>
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NACoA ACOA Online Education and Discussion Group
These meetings are designed to educate adults about the impact of the disease of addiction on children, and how it can continue to affect them in adulthood. Through these presentations, adults can learn more about the impact, find hope that support is available, and learn how to heal from this impact and live healthier lives. Past meeting presentations are now available on NACoA’s website. This ever-expanding list of presentations include: What is an ACOA and resilience?; Being a Child, What It Feels Like and How it Impacts Us; Healing Through Parenting: For You and Your Family; and much more. These meetings are provided on the second Thursday of each month, at 6pm ET.
Upcoming Meetings March 13, 6 pm ET
Topic: The Overdeveloped Sense of Responsibility
Presenter: Meghan Sullivan, NACoA Children’s Program Facilitator
This presentation will discuss how the overdeveloped sense of responsibility drives current relationships for better or worse. She'll discuss how to achieve a sense of balance through awareness and healthy practices.
To Register>>
April 10, 6 pm ET
Topic: Understanding Detachment
Presenter: Mary Kennedy, LCSW, Psychotherapist & Director, The Addictions Institute San Francisco
An elusive, confusing and complex process, developing an understanding of detachment and putting it into action is possible. It really is! ACOAs and all family members impacted by the disease of addiction can and do find freedom for themselves as the come to know and practice detachment in their relationships. Join us as we dive into a discussion about detachment that will support your growth in recovery and deepen your ability to connect with love.
To Register>>
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NACoA Blogs
Each month NACoA publishes important blogs to help educate about the impact of addiction on children, how to help kids and teens heal, and what adults can do who are still struggling with the impact. Resilience is available for children of all ages, and NACoA provides information, education, and additional resources through these informative and reflective articles. |
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NACoA Co-Founder Dr. Claudia Black has released a new edition of an industry staple: Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovery Parents Should Tell Their Kids About Drugs and Alcohol. An important component to eradicate the intergenerational trauma is to empower families to talk about substances, substance use, and living in a healthy way once parents have found recovery. This essential text does just that and provides a great deal of support for families. It also provides some practical prevention strategies for raising resilient children and guidelines for people’s use of screens and social media. Learn more and order through Central Recovery Press, or on Amazon.
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Sober St. Patrick’s Day 2025
This event, now in its 14th year, is an annual favorite for families who wish to celebrate St Patrick’s Day and their Irish heritage – or pretend to be Irish for the day! – in a sober and fun-filled way! Visit their website to learn more about the NYC event, or get ideas about an event you can host with family and friends, celebrate Irish culture and build community without alcohol.
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Help Educate Your Community During This Important Week of Advocacy
This 15-year-old traditional week of advocacy provides a great opportunity to raise awareness about substances in your area, substance use and misuse, and substance use disorders. Its great way to important facts and help parents feel more comfortable having important conversations about these topics with their kids and teens. Learn more about NDAFW, and get connected with their social media messaging through Facebook, X, or Linked In next week to help share important messages to your communities.
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The Loss of a Champion for Self Help and Recovery – Melody Beattie
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Melody Beattie, a beacon of hope and healing for adult children impacted by the disease of addiction, and anyone impacted by family dysfunction.
Through her groundbreaking book Codependent No More and her life’s work, she gave language to the struggles of millions and provided a path toward self-care, healing, and empowerment.
Her wisdom shaped the behavioral health field, influencing countless clinicians who took her trainings and carried her message forward to help others heal. Her impact is immeasurable, and her legacy will live on in the lives she touched.
Rest in peace, Melody. Your voice and teachings will never be forgotten.
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