If you want to know everything about SMART Recovery that a Volunteer Facilitator needs to know, you can now find it on-line in the SMART Recovery Facilitator Quick-Start Manual.
Though it downloads quickly (only 46 pages) and it's free, you still might prefer to purchase the entire text on a CD for only $10 from the SMART Recovery Bookstore. Anything you buy from this bookstore supports a worthy cause - personal choice in recovery.
The Facilitator's Quick Start Manual is mainly aimed at helping volunteers get meetings started and as a quick easy reference for those SMART Recovery volunteers who already have meetings running. But it also could help 'Community Relations' Volunteers - the volunteers who don't want to 'facilitate meetings, but who want to help bring SMART Recovery and its 4-Point Program to the public through every possible means. SMART Recovery is growing rapidly with over 600 meetings in the United Staes and many more around the world, but if more people learn about the SMART Recovery program through these CR Volunteers who can bring it to the attention of many stake holders and the media. And with this new manual I'm confident that they can bring people accurate information about the benefits and differences found in the SMART Recovery program.
Like the SMART Recovery Handbook, also available from the SMART Recovery bookstore, the Quick Start Manual is a double bargin. Both are inexpensive or free, and both are highly recommended by people who say that they found it somewhere between helpful and lifesaving. That's the range of comments I've heard, but if you don't believe me (and I'm clearly biased as the author of the latter and the editor and main contributor to the former) check out comments on the SMART Recovery Web Page. And while your there, consider inviting a friend in need of help to take a tour of the site with you. Perhaps you could buy them a copy of the Handbook.
Whether you bring individuals in need to SMART Recovery, or work as a Community Relations Volunteer, bringing SMART Recovery to a broader audience, you will be saving lives, literaly and figuratively. I feel such a group of volunteers growing across the country and around the world. I so much as put out a call for volunteers on my local United Way 'donate your time' web page and I was inundated with voluneers. Students wanting to apply what they had learned in 'marketing', people with personal stories that led them to save a friend or relative - or make sure that no one else suffers needlessly or dies because they were misinformed about SMART Recovery or discouraged from seek a better fitting mutual support recovery program.
We all bring different talents and preferences to our volunteer commitments, but all can carry the simple message, found in the Recovery Bill of Rights: "There are many paths to recovery.
Yes, it's a fuzzy image below and I'm ready to learn how to insert cleaner images - but just click on it and you will be taken to a clean copy of the Recovery Bill of Rights.
Though it downloads quickly (only 46 pages) and it's free, you still might prefer to purchase the entire text on a CD for only $10 from the SMART Recovery Bookstore. Anything you buy from this bookstore supports a worthy cause - personal choice in recovery.
The Facilitator's Quick Start Manual is mainly aimed at helping volunteers get meetings started and as a quick easy reference for those SMART Recovery volunteers who already have meetings running. But it also could help 'Community Relations' Volunteers - the volunteers who don't want to 'facilitate meetings, but who want to help bring SMART Recovery and its 4-Point Program to the public through every possible means. SMART Recovery is growing rapidly with over 600 meetings in the United Staes and many more around the world, but if more people learn about the SMART Recovery program through these CR Volunteers who can bring it to the attention of many stake holders and the media. And with this new manual I'm confident that they can bring people accurate information about the benefits and differences found in the SMART Recovery program.
Like the SMART Recovery Handbook, also available from the SMART Recovery bookstore, the Quick Start Manual is a double bargin. Both are inexpensive or free, and both are highly recommended by people who say that they found it somewhere between helpful and lifesaving. That's the range of comments I've heard, but if you don't believe me (and I'm clearly biased as the author of the latter and the editor and main contributor to the former) check out comments on the SMART Recovery Web Page. And while your there, consider inviting a friend in need of help to take a tour of the site with you. Perhaps you could buy them a copy of the Handbook.
Whether you bring individuals in need to SMART Recovery, or work as a Community Relations Volunteer, bringing SMART Recovery to a broader audience, you will be saving lives, literaly and figuratively. I feel such a group of volunteers growing across the country and around the world. I so much as put out a call for volunteers on my local United Way 'donate your time' web page and I was inundated with voluneers. Students wanting to apply what they had learned in 'marketing', people with personal stories that led them to save a friend or relative - or make sure that no one else suffers needlessly or dies because they were misinformed about SMART Recovery or discouraged from seek a better fitting mutual support recovery program.
We all bring different talents and preferences to our volunteer commitments, but all can carry the simple message, found in the Recovery Bill of Rights: "There are many paths to recovery.
Yes, it's a fuzzy image below and I'm ready to learn how to insert cleaner images - but just click on it and you will be taken to a clean copy of the Recovery Bill of Rights.
