Hopestream Community
When your family has been impacted by your child’s drug and alcohol misuse, you need more than emotional support. You need a proven plan to create change.
We do both.
Hopestream Community™ is the not-for-profit destination for support and educational services for parents of teens and young adults struggling with substance use and mental health challenges. We provide connection, education, and healing through powerful, private (not on Facebook) communities, workshops, a podcast, and wellness-focused retreats and events.
Our weekly CRAFT group session guides you through science-backed skills and protocols to dial down the drama in your home and relationships, restore your sanity and health, and help motivate your child to accept help for their substance misuse. Additionally, we focus on holistic wellness, positive psychology and the healing power of community to support you through one of the most difficult seasons of parenting. The private, digital community is available on a convenient mobile app as well as computer so your resources and connections are with you when and wherever you need them.
Our workshops include subjects like 'The Stages of Change' so you can understand why your child is doing what they're doing, and 'Setting and Holding Healthy Boundaries' which can feel next to impossible when your teen or young adult child is misusing drugs and alcohol. Our popular study group for the book 'Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change," steps you through the life-changing concepts and actions that can create positive change in your family.
Created by parents, for parents, Hopestream offers practical support rooted in real-life experience and we'd love to be part of your team and help heal your family. Visit us at hopestreamcommunity.org to learn more.
Video Course: Hope Starts Here
Hope Starts Here is a complimentary video course offered with Hopestream's free Limited Membership as an introduction to the Invitation to Change approach. It guides you on strategic ways to parent using connection, understanding and compassion rather than tough love and "rock bottom" - outdated concepts that can be more harmful than helpful.
Over four targeted sessions, you'll learn practical strategies that honor both your child's autonomy and your deep love for them.
SESSION ONE: You'll learn to use curiosity as a bridge to rebuild connection and understand the underlying reasons behind your child's substance use, rather than just reacting to the behavior itself.
SESSION TWO: We'll explore how to navigate the shame that often accompanies this journey and also practice the self-compassion that will help to sustain your sanity and ability to give support. (Even though self-compassion seems impossible or even weak right now.)
SESSION THREE: You'll begin making sense of what feels like chaos by learning to observe and track patterns in your child's behavior, transforming confusion into clarity and purposeful action.
SESSION FOUR: You'll learn how your words will either build barriers or become a bridge to connection and healthy communication. We teach you a simple and powerful communication framework to make sure you know what to say for the best possible outcome.
FREE Worried Sick Ebook: If you're a parent looking for insight, strategies and an approach that doesn't involved tough love or disconnection, download the free e-book, Worried Sick: A Compassionate Guide for Parents of Teens and Young Adults Misusing Substances, written by Hopestream co-founder, Brenda Zane here.
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