STAYING CONNECTED IS IMPORTANT: VIRTUAL RECOVERY RESOURCES
• Refuge Recovery: Provides online and virtual INTRODUCTION support In an infectious disease outbreak, when social https://www.refugerecovery.org/home distancing and self-quarantine are needed to • Self-Management and Recovery Training limit and control the spread of the disease, (SMART) Recovery: Offers global community continued social connectedness to maintain of mutual-support groups, forums including a recovery is critically important. Virtual chat room and message board resources can and should be used during this https://www.smartrecovery.org/community/ time. Even after a pandemic, virtual support may still exist and still be necessary. • SoberCity: Offers an online support and recovery community This tip sheet describes resources that can be https://www.soberocity.com/ used to virtually support recovery from mental/ substance use disorders as well as other • Sobergrid: Offers an online platform to help resources. anyone get sober and stay sober https://www.sobergrid.com/
• Soberistas: Provides a women-only VIRTUAL RECOVERY PROGRAMS international online recovery community https://soberistas.com/ • Alcoholics Anonymous: Offers online support • Sober Recovery: Provides an online forum for https://aa-intergroup.org/ those in recovery and their friends and family https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/ • Cocaine Anonymous: Offers online support and services • We Connect Recovery: Provides daily online https://www.ca-online.org/ recovery groups for those with substance use and mental illness • LifeRing: LifeRing Secular Recovery offers https://www.weconnectrecovery.com/free- online support online-support-meetings https://www.lifering.org/online-meetings
• In The Rooms - Online Recovery Meetings: RECOVERY RESOURCES AND SUPPORTS Provides online support through live meetings and discussion groups AA Beyond Belief https://www.intherooms.com/home/ A program for the agnostics, atheists, and free thinkers interested in AA • Marijuana Anonymous: Offers virtual https://aabeyondbelief.org/ support https://ma-online.org/ Al-Anon Family Groups Providing help and hope for families and friends of • Narcotics Anonymous: Offers a variety of alcoholics online and skype meeting options https://al-anon.org/ https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/ Association of Recovery in Higher Education • Reddit Recovery: Offers a virtual hang out Represents collegiate recovery programs and and support during recovery https://www. collegiate recovery communities, the faculty and reddit.com/r/REDDITORSINRECOVERY/ staff who support them and the students who represent them https://collegiaterecovery.org/
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Buddhist Recovery Network National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine Promotes the use of Buddhist teachings and Coronavirus Information and Resources Guide practices to help people recovery from the https://www.nami.org/Support-Education/NAMI- suffering caused by addictive behaviors HelpLine/COVID-19-Information-and-Resources/COVID- https://www.buddhistrecovery.org/ 19-Resource-and-Information-Guide
Celebrate Recovery National Alliance for Recovery Residences A Christ-centered 12-step recovery program Compiled best practices and resources https://www.celebraterecovery.com/ https://narronline.org/
Crystal Meth Anonymous One Sky Center Fellowship of people who share their experience, A national resource center for American Indian and strength and hope with each other so they may Alaska Native health, education and research. Dedicated solve their common problem and help others to to quality health care across Indian country recovery from addiction to crystal meth http://www.oneskycenter.org/ https://www.crystalmeth.org/ Peer Recovery Center of Excellence Fountain House Provides training, technical assistance and resources on (NYC Peer Organization) virtual clubhouse peer support services, recovery community organization with links to virtual “living rooms” and other capacity building, peer workforce development and community-focused virtual spaces evidence based practice utilization https://virtual.fountainhouse.org/ https://peerrecoverynow.org/
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Project LETS Contains online support meetings, blogs, Peer-led communities of support education and mobile apps, social media groups, and movie advocacy for folks with live experience of mental illness, suggestions, including the online support trauma, disability, and/or neurodivergence community, The Daily Pledge: https://www. https://projectlets.org/ hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/tools/daily- pledge and “Tips for Staying Connected and Recovery Dharma Safeguarding Your Addiction Recovery”: Method of freeing from suffering of addiction using https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/about-us/ Buddhist practices and principles news-media/tips-for-staying-connected https://recoverydharma.org/
HelpGuide Rural Communities Opioid Response Program A small non-profit organization that manages Technical Assistance June 2020 Newsbrief “Sustaining one of the world’s top ten mental health websites Recovery Support Services During the COVID-19 https://www.helpguide.org/ Pandemic” https://www.rcorp-ta.org/sites/default/ files/2020-08/RCORP-Newsbrief-Sustaining- Latinx Therapy Recovery-7-10-2020-508_0.pdf Founded to destigmatize mental health issues in the Latinx community Shatterproof https://latinxtherapy.com/ “How I’m Coping with COVID-19 and Social Isolation as a Person in Long-Term Recovery” provides helpful Mental Health America suggestions http://bit.ly/shatterproof-coping Mental health and Covid-19 Information and Resources She Recovers https://mhanational.org/covid19 An international movement of self-identified women in or seeking recovery from a range of issues, including Moderation Management substance use disorders, trauma, abuse, codependency, A lay-led non-profit dedicated to reducing the grief etc. harm cause by the abuse of alcohol https://sherecovers.org/ https://moderation.org/
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The Chopra Center “Anxious About the Coronavirus? Here Are Eight HELPFUL RESOURCES HOTLINES Practical Tips on How to Stay Calm and Support Your Immune System.” http://bit.ly/Chopra-calm SAMHSA’s Disaster Distress Helpline Call or Text: 1-800-985-5990 (English and español) The Phoenix (fitness oriented recovery support) Website: Now live streaming fitness classes through Zoom https://www.disasterdistress.samhsa.gov https://thephoenix.org/ SAMHSA’s National Helpline The Trevor Project Toll-Free: 1-800-662-HELP (24/7/365 Treatment The leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to Referral Information Service in English and español) LGBTQ young people under age 25 Website: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
Therapy for Black Men National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Provides an online directory for men to find Toll-Free (English): 1-800-273-TALK (8255) a therapist to fit their needs by searching by Toll-Free (español): 1-888-628-9454 location, specialization, and other detailed TTY: 1-800-799-4TTY (4889) criteria Website (English): https://therapyforblackmen.org/therapists/ https://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org Website (español): Trans Lifeline https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/en- Provides trans peer support for community, run by and for trans people espanol/ https://translifeline.org/ Treatment Locator Behavioral Health Treatment VetChange Services Locator Website: Free, confidential online program to help https://findtreatment.gov/ Veterans cut back or stop drinking alcohol and For help finding treatment 1-800-662-HELP (4357) learn to manage post-traumatic stress disorder https://findtreatment.gov/ symptoms without using alcohol https://vetchange.org/home/index2 SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center Toll-Free: 1-800-308-3515 We R Native Email: [email protected] Targeted to Native American youth, including all Website: https://www.samhsa.gov/dtac genders who have questions or difficulties https://www.wernative.org/
White Bison or Wellbriety Note: Inclusion or mention of a resource in this fact Offers sobriety, recovery, addictions prevention sheet does not imply endorsement by the Substance and wellness/wellbriety 12-step learning Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or resources to the Native American/Alaskan Native the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. community nationwide https://whitebison.org/
Women for Sobriety An organization and self-help program also Reviewed July 2021 called the New Life Program for women with substance use disorders https://womenforsobriety.org/
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