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SMART Recovery Central Office
7304 Mentor Avenue, Suite F
Mentor, OH 44060 USA
Phone: 440/951-5357
Toll Free: 866/951-5357
Website: www.smartrecovery.org |
Fall 2009
Dear Volunteers, Participants and Friends of SMART Recovery,
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter Solstice, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, New Years: Call it what you will, it’s the holiday season, and it’s back! As time goes by, these dates seem to arrive more quickly each year. For many they add to the stress of everyday life, instead of the joy of the holiday season.
For those who have suffered from addictive behaviors, the holidays present challenges to their commitment to abstinence. Anticipation becomes anxiety: parties; shopping; rushing about; old friends and family who still indulge; fit in; go along. Expectation makes it difficult to find comfort and joy in the season. During this time, the support SMART Recovery provides is a literal lifeline!
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SMART Recovery Online (“SOL”) is accessible 24/7 through message boards, chat rooms, and online meetings facilitated by volunteers from the US, Europe and Australia. Over 500 new members register monthly and over 10,000 message board postings occur each month!
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SMART Recovery hosts “face-to-face” group meetings around the globe, sustaining the human interaction that is so important to people struggling with addictive behaviors. By the end of 2009, we expect to meet our goal of 100 new meetings in the US.
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SMART Recovery is growing! We are striving to become available to everyone for whom the program’s tools and techniques provide hope and direction. We need your help. Recovery is a process, not an event, and its growth must be continually nurtured. We must improve and expand training of meeting facilitators to provide the infrastructure to the thousands of volunteers who effectively communicate our mission, recruit volunteers, promote publications, and generate donations.
Since 1994, SMART Recovery’s mixture of private, federal and grant funding has allowed us to provide global self-empowering recovery support. Fortunately, we were on the path to self-sufficiency before the current economic crisis, deriving much of our revenue from publication sales and individual donations, combined with careful management and reduction of expenses. Even so, without financial support from caring individuals like you who understand and believe in the work we do, thousands of people currently served would not be able to receive our help.
We are grateful to our many supporters, large and small, who enable us to disseminate the message of self-empowering recovery and the importance of choice. We now need your help in restoring our funding to a level that will support our program’s activities. Won’t you please continue to make our program possible by providing a financial donation? Gifts to SMART Recovery are tax-deductible. We are able to accept VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, QGive (for recurring monthly donations) and personal checks.
With your help, we will continue to serve our purpose of mending shattered lives – perhaps yours or that of someone you love.
Your donation will help us continue this work!
Click here to read: “One Person’s Story, Or Is It?"
With Sincere Thanks,
Shari Allwood
Executive Director
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