Connecticut Turning to Youth and Families provides ongoing recovery coach training and supervision to provide youth and families the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed for recovery support services. CTYF will provide a training opportunity that emphasizes the skills needed for helping youth and families to increase access to recovery and mentoring others who wish to sustain recovery. This training will be offered quarterly and ongoing recovery coach supervision will be provided both individually and in groups.
CTYF offers family education programs to provide information and honest discussion about alcohol and drug use between adults and youth in the community. These sessions help to disseminate information and provide encouragement to parents who are concerned about their youth's current alcohol and drug use or have lost youth to alcohol and drugs. Monthly support groups meet in the CCAR Capitol Voices Hartford, Connecticut location on the second Thursday of every month. A referral helpline provides family's seeking access for addicted youth information about treatment facilities, 12-step groups, and other details such as recovery support services.
CTYF also collaborates and refers families to some of the other family education programs available in Connecticut:
This training program is designed for those in the community who are interested in working to change aspects of the environment that contribute to effective prevention, quality treatment and positive peer-to-peer youth and family recovery. Getting involved in CTYF public policy advocacy can be a vital and effective way to create positive changes at all levels. Our public policy activities require broad-based community support and an understanding of the issues and context. This training program offers a basic understanding of the issues, will provide guidance in the development of effective youth and family substance abuse and co-occurring advocacy work to change attitudes, policies and practices. Some of the specific topics will include looking at the State's outdated regulations that sets the code for standards that guide state prevention, treatment and recovery policies. Our collective action agenda for policy change that challenges the status quo of accepted practices, and norms will be concentrated on, and training will be provided in support of the knowledge and new skills needed by coalitions, and stakeholders to move forward as youth and family advocates. We will also explore ways we can collaborate with other group's policy efforts.
Technical assistance is a form of consulting that strengthens the capacity of communities for supporting emerging peer-to-peer service models. CTYF delivers technical assistance in various ways depending on the nature of the group and the community's needs. Support is often provided through professionally facilitated planning sessions, training courses, workshops, and online advice and guidance. Assistance also may also be provided in the form of focus groups, needs assessments, and surveys conducted by youth and families. CTYF has increasingly adopted a regional, town-by-town approach to the delivery of technical assistance for implementing peer-to-peer recovery support and training. CTYF works in collaboration with Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) in maintaining the standards for practice of recovery coach programs and services. Technical assistance is paid for through collaboration and resource sharing often with external donors which leverages the resources available for events and strengthens local involvement and ownership in peer-to-peer models.
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