Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)

DESCRIPTION:

CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) helps families identify practical and highly-effective ways to move their child toward treatment, while simultaneously improving their own lives.

Goals of CRAFT

• improve the lives of family members
• reduce the problematic addictive behavior of the youth
• increase the youth’s motivation to enter treatment

Who can be a CRAFT interventionist?

Expertise in substance use is not required. Psychologists, mental health professionals, social workers, drug and alcohol counselors, primary health care workers, and other professionals working with families.

OBJECTIVES:

Become a CRAFT Interventionist and learn to teach families the following CRAFT skills:

• Employ effective positive communication
• Identify and use positive rewards
• Develop a roadmap for understanding their loved one’s substance use and pattern
• Recognize substance use
• Take domestic violence precautions
• Allow for the “natural consequences” of use
• Practice self-care without detachment
• Get a child into treatment