This program will provide participants with a basic understanding of how addiction impacts each member of a family. The About the presenter will describe the roles and behaviors that family members often acquire when living with addiction, ways in which each family member is affected by addiction in the family, and options for family members to obtain help to cope with addiction in the family.
Handouts and other goodies:
Handouts:
Related reading suggestions:
- Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams: Understanding and Helping Children of Alcoholics – Charles Deutsch
- It Will Never Happen To Me – Claudia Black
- How Alanon Works
- The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
Slides
Chemical Dependency and the Family
Video
Chemical Dependency and the Family – 10/30/2012 from Dawn Farm on Vimeo.
Audio Only
About the presenter:
Lynn is the director of Eastern Michigan Universities 21st Century Community Learning Centers Bright Futures out-of-school-time programs.
Lynn has worked with challenged youth and their families, teaching, counseling, and leading for over 35 years in K-12 education as well as developing and directing an adolescent outpatient program for substance abusing youth and their families. Lynn has a deep knowledge of the challenges of children of alcoholics, family systems as they relate to addiction and the process of recovery. She is a strong supporter of 12-step recovery.
Lynn received her doctorate in educational leadership from EMU where she studied the culture, history and politics of local communities along the Michigan Avenue corridor in Southeastern Michigan. She recently co-authored a book chapter published in Women as Leaders in Education (Praeger, 2011), entitled “Both Sides of Mentoring: A Leader’s Story”. She has two grown sons, a husband and two Shetland Sheepdogs, teaches graduate courses at Eastern Michigan University and is passionate about photography.
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