CHICAGO AREA ALTERNATIVES (OR ADDITIONS) TO 12 STEP SUPPORT GROUPS

MONDAY

Refuge Recovery MONDAY 12:00 PM Foundations Recovery Network 225 W Washington St. Suite 550 (2nd fl.), Chicago, IL 60603 (See security desk, sign in and ask for Foundations then take elevator to second floor. Enter from Franklin St. on the west if door on Washington is locked). Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery MONDAY 12:00 PM Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center 2942 W Lake St.,Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery MONDAY 1:00 PM Breakthrough Urban Ministries 402 N St Louis Ave., Chicago, IL USA Contact: [email protected]

Harm Reduction Group MONDAY 6:00 PM Howard Brown Health Center An affirming, non-judgmental group where clients can explore their substance use, get support for making choices that align with their values, and learn tools to help them reach their goals. Work on specific harm reduction strategies that prioritize safety  Learn about withdrawal symptoms  Address triggers for substance use  Set goals for use for each drug of choice  Explore the impact of substance use on relationships, work, school, physical, & mental health Contact: To learn more about this group, please call Sonila Sejdaras, LCSW at 773.572.8353

SMART Recovery Evanston Hospital/Doreen E. Chapman Center - Room 5415 MONDAY 6:00 PM 2650 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201 USA Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery MONDAY 6:15 PM Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities Inc. 225 W Washington St. Suite 200 (2nd fl.), Chicago, IL 60603

Refuge Recovery MONDAY 6:30 PM Gateway Foundation 3828 W. Taylor St. Chicago, IL 60624 Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery MONDAY 7:00 PM Methodist Hospital 5025 N Paulina, Chicago, IL 60640 USA

SMART Recovery *Gay men only MONDAY 7:00 PM Center on Halsted 3656 N. Halsted, Room 205 Contact: [email protected], 773.530.1978

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SMART Recovery TUESDAY 12:00 PM Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center 2942 W Lake St., Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA Contact: [email protected]

Veterans SMART Recovery Chicago *Veterans only TUESDAY 12:00 PM Jesse Brown Medical Center, 8th fl., Damen Pavilion Room 8456 Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery TUESDAY 7:00 PM Bethany Retirement Community - 4950 N. Ashland (Ashland/Winnemac 2 blocks south of Foster) Reflections Room (Stop at Security Desk first and please DO NOT arrive before 6:45PM) Contact: [email protected]

Refuge Recovery TUESDAY 7:00 PM New Hope Recovery Center 2835 N. Sheffield Ave., (Suite 304) Chicago, IL 60657 Contact: [email protected]

WEDNESDAY

SMART Recovery WEDNESDAY 12:00 PM Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center 2942 W Lake St., Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA Contact: [email protected]

Refuge Recovery WEDNESDAY 6:30 PM Foundations Recovery Network 225 W Washington St. Suite 550 (2nd fl.), Chicago, IL 60603 (See security desk, sign in and ask for Foundations then take elevator to second floor. Enter from Franklin St. on the west if door on Washington is locked). Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery WEDNESDAY 7:00 PM New Hope Recovery, 2835 N. Sheffield Ave., #304 (2 blks. North of Diversey by Brown Line stop), ring buzzer: New Hope Recovery Contact: [email protected], 773.530.1978

Moderation Management/HAMS WEDNESDAY 7:00 PM Chicago Harm Reduction Therapy Center - 1740 Ridge #301 Evanston, IL Contact: [email protected], 773.425.1151 www.chicagoharmreductiontherapy.com

THURSDAY

SMART Recovery THURSDAY 12:00 PM Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center 2942 W Lake St., Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery HYDE PARK THURSDAY 6:00 PM Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn (Entrance around the back, off Woodlawn, meeting on 2nd fl. – no elevator) Ring bell: SMART Recovery

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SMART Recovery THURSDAY 7:00 PM Family and Friends Meeting *This meeting is for family & friends of someone needing or in recovery 4633 N. Western #211 (buzz Mohning) by brown line above the 7Eleven Contact: [email protected], 773-530-1978

Refuge Recovery THURSDAY 8:30 PM Chicago Mindful Psychotherapy 5537 N. Clark St.

FRIDAY

SMART Recovery Chicago FRIDAY 11:30 AM Jesse Brown Medical Center, 8th fl., Damen Pavilion Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery FRIDAY 12:00 PM Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center 2942 W Lake St., Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA Contact: [email protected]

SMART Recovery FRIDAY 6:00 PM Counseling Speaks, LLC 155 N Michigan Ave., Suite 335. Chicago, IL 60601 Contact: Please email us at [email protected] prior to attending

SMART Recovery FRIDAY 7:00 PM Eating Recovery Center/Insight Behavioral Health Center 333 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2133, Chicago, IL 60601 Contact: [email protected]; 773-587-7453 Please email, phone or text Ethan prior to meeting to get the building code needed to get past security desk.

Refuge Recovery FRIDAY 7:00 PM New Hope Recovery Center 2835 N. Sheffield Ave., (Suite 304), Chicago, IL 60657 Contact: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1071930806229473/

SATURDAY

SMART Recovery SATURDAY 9:15 AM Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted - Room 204 Contact: [email protected]

Refuge Recovery SATURDAY 10:30 AM New Town Alano Club 909 W. Belmont Ave (#2nd)., Chicago, IL 60657 Contact: [email protected]

Refuge Recovery SATURDAY 3:30 PM Gateway Foundation 3828 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60624 (Meeting is held in the Living Room. All visitors much check in at front desk)

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Refuge Recovery *LGBTQIA+ SATURDAY 7:00 PM Center on Halsted 3656 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60613 (Meeting is held in room 201 on the second floor) Contact: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RefugeRecoveryChicago/

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SMART Recovery SUNDAY 10:00 AM Harborview Recovery Center at St. Joseph's Hospital 2900 N. Lake Shore Dr. Check in at visitor’s desk at front entrance. Meeting is held on 2nd floor in Boikan 1 Conference Room Contact: [email protected]

Refuge Recovery SUNDAY 7:00 PM Jewell Heart Buddhist Center 4043 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL 60613 (Buzzer #002) Contact: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1071930806229473/

Online Guided Self-Change Programs Behavioral Self-Control Program for Windows This is an interactive software program for alcohol moderation training that consists of eight computer-assisted sessions. It gives you individualized feedback and helps you assess your chances of succeeding at moderation, shows you how to set up rewards for yourself, deal with triggers (cues), etc. (100% of the software's $25 purchase price goes directly to support ) www.moderation.org/software/BSCPWIN.shtml

Drinker’s Check-Up (also works with drugs) Another interactive software program for assessment, feedback, and decision making about your alcohol use, as well as secondary information about drug use. www.drinkerscheckup.com

HAMS – Harm Reduction, Abstinence, and Moderation Support HAMS is a peer-led and free-of-charge support and informational group for anyone who wants to change their drinking habits for the better. HAMS Harm Reduction strategies are defined in the 17 elements of HAMS. HAMS offers information and support via a chat room, an email group, and live meetings--as well is the articles on the web site. HAMS supports every positive change. Choose your own goal--safe drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting. www.hamsnetwork.org/

SMART Recovery SMART Recovery® offers a secular scientific alternative if you are seeking independence from alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling and other addictive behaviors. You learn to live a balanced lifestyle and free yourself from . www.smartrecovery.org www.smartrecoverychicago.org/

Refuge Recovery Live We are an Inter-Sangha of Refuge Recovery members who connect with each other through technology. Meetings are available through Internet or phone connections. www.refugerecoverylive.org Monday – 6pm PT / 9pm ET – Noble Truth Inventory Tuesday – 6am PT / 9am ET – Sitting Group Tuesday – 7pm PT / 10pm ET – In The Rooms Thursday – 6am PT / 9am ET – Sitting Group

Revised 9.18 Please send corrections, additions, or suggestions to [email protected] Thanks! Thursday – 5pm PT / 8pm ET – In The Rooms Thursday – 6pm PT / 9pm ET – Book Study Saturday – 6am PT / 9am ET – Sitting Group 3rd Saturday – 7am PT / 10am ET – Inter-Sangha Saturday – 1pm PT / 4pm ET – Turning the Wheel Anytime – Recorded Meeting Playback

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NAMI The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Illinois (NAMI Illinois) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded by volunteers in 1984. NAMI Illinois is affiliated with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and has 23 local Affiliates throughout Illinois. NAMI Illinois has nearly 2,700 members made up of individuals living with mental illness, family members, friends, and professionals. Its purpose is to help improve the lives of people affected by mental illness through education, support, and advocacy. NAMI Illinois has a variety of education and support programs directed to individuals living with mental illness, family members, friends, professionals, other stake holders, and the community at large to address the mental health needs of Illinois. NAMI Illinois works to inform the public about mental illness by distributing information about mental illness through every means of communication. https://namiillinois.org/

Hearing Voices Network USA Founded in 2010, the Hearing Voices Network USA represents a partnership between individuals who hear voices or have other extreme or unusual experiences, professionals and allies in the community, all of whom are working together to change the assumptions made about these phenomenon and create supports, learning and healing opportunities for people across the country. The Hearing Voices Network (HVN) USA is one of over 20 nationally-based networks around the world joined by shared goals and values, incorporating a fundamental belief that there are many ways to understand the experience of hearing voices and other unusual or extreme experiences. It is part of an international collaboration between professionals, people with lived experience, and their families to develop an alternative approach to coping with emotional distress that is empowering and useful to people, and does not start from the assumption that they have a chronic illness. Goals of the Hearing Voices Network USA Include: Raising awareness about voice hearing, visions and other unusual or extreme experiences Supporting anyone who has had these experiences by providing opportunities to talk about them freely and without judgment amongst peers Supporting anyone who has had these experiences to explore, understand, learn and grow from them in their own way Supporting individuals providing treatment, family, friends and the general community to broaden their understanding and ability to support individuals who have had these experiences

In the United States, Hearing Voices groups have existed in small numbers for well over five years, with some of the earliest known groups forming in Wisconsin, California and Massachusetts. However, there has been no real way to link them together, spread knowledge about the Hearing Voices approach, provide consistent guidelines on what qualifies as a 'Hearing Voices' group and support the development of new groups. These are the primary purposes of the Hearing Voices Network USA. Join us as we move forward and become one of the newest members of the International network! http://www.hearingvoicesusa.org/

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Secular Organization for Sobriety/Save Our Selves (SOS) • large-scale AA alternative • Founded by Jim Christopher, an alcoholic who quit drinking in 1978 and felt AA didn’t suit him • Objected to spiritual, religious aspects and the idea that recovery came from outside the alcoholic • No distinction is made by substance of choice • Support the AA idea that total, lifelong abstinence is necessary and that peer support is useful http://www.sossobriety.org

Rational Recovery • Founded by Jack Trimpey in the late 1980s, an alcoholic who disliked AA (The Small Book) • Does not require belief in a higher power but does support goal of total abstinence • “Addictive voice (The Beast) recognition training” (AVRT) to avert relapse • Originally based on Albert Ellis’ rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT), now rejected • Belief that groups and identifying w/other addicts is part of the problem • Has become a political action group aimed at ending the recovery movement and defunding the addiction treatment industry https://rational.org/

SMART Recovery (Self Management and Recovery Training) • Developed after a split b/t Jack Trimpey & key members of • Based broadly on the ideas of cognitive-behavioral & motivational-enhancement therapy • No higher powers required • Focus on own competence to recover and change • Views addiction as a maladaptive habit, rather than a disease • Discourages use of labels such as “alcoholic” or “addict” • Does not completely reject moderation as a goal https://www.smartrecovery.org/

Women for Sobriety (WFS) • Founded in 1976 by Jean Kirkpatrick - recognized that AA did not entirely meet needs of women • Focus in AA on encouraging humility & recognition of one’s flaws only worsens women’s self- critical nature • Focus is on building self-esteem & empowerment to make life choices to sustain sobriety • Motto “We are capable and competent, caring and compassionate, always willing to help another, bonded together in overcoming our .” http://www.womenforsobriety.org/beta2/

LifeRing • Abstinence-‐based, worldwide network of people living in recovery from addiction to alcohol or to other, non-‐medically indicated drugs. • Peer-‐to-‐peer support that encourages personal growth and continued learning through personal empowerment. • Approach is based on developing, refining, and sharing our own strategies for continued abstinence and crafting a rewarding life in recovery. In short, we are sober, secular, and self-- ‐empowered. http://lifering.org

Revised 9.18 Please send corrections, additions, or suggestions to [email protected] Thanks! Refuge Recovery • Mindfulness-based addiction recovery community that practices and utilizes Buddhist philosophy as the foundation of the recovery process. • Drawing inspiration from the core teachings of the Four Noble Truths, emphasis is placed on both knowledge and empathy as a means for overcoming addiction and its causes. • Those struggling with any form of addiction greatly benefit when they are able to understand the suffering that addiction has created while developing compassion for the pain they have experienced. www.refugerecovery.org

Moderation Management • A behavioral change program and national support group network for people concerned about their drinking and who desire to make positive lifestyle changes. • MM empowers individuals to accept personal responsibility for choosing and maintaining their own path, whether moderation or abstinence. • MM promotes early self-recognition of risky drinking behavior, when moderate drinking is a more easily achievable goal. • MM is run by lay members who came to the organization to resolve personal issues and stayed to help others. • Moderation Management is recognized as an evidence-based program, on a similar level to other mainstream rehabilitation therapies. https://www.moderation.org/

HAMS: Harm Reduction, Abstinence, and Management Support • Peer-led and free-of-charge support and informational group for anyone who wants to change their drinking habits for the better. • HAMS Harm Reduction strategies are defined in the 17 elements of HAMS. • HAMS offers support via an online forum, a chat room, an email group, a facebook group, and live meetings. • Information via the HAMS Book, the articles on this web site, and the HAMS podcast. • HAMS supports every positive change. Choose your own goal - safe drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting alcohol altogether http://hams.cc/

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Anderson, K. (2010). How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol (2nd edition). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

Bigg, D. (2001). Substance use management: A harm reduction-principled approach to assisting the relief of drug-related problems. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 33 (1), 33-38.

Denning, P., Little, J. (2017). Over the Influence, Second Edition: The Harm Reduction Guide to Controlling Your Drug and Alcohol Use. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Kellogg, S.H. & Tatarsky, A. (in press 2012). Re-envisioning Addiction Treatment: A Six Point Plan. Treatment Quarterly, 30, 109-128.

Mate, G. (2010). In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. North Atlantic Books.

Miller, W. R. & Page, A. C. (1991). Warm turkey: Other routes to abstinence. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 8, 227-232.

Szalavitz, M. (2017). Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. Picador.

Stout, D. (2009). Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking and Screaming: Looking for Harm Reduction in a 12-Step World. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse.

Volpicelli, J. & Szalavitz, M. (2000). Recovery Options: The complete guide. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Weil, A. (2004). From chocolate to morphine: Everything you need to know about mind-altering drugs. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Zinberg, N. E. (1984). Drug, Set, and Setting: The Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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