Services For Families

Before, During, and After Treatment

Caron Treatment Centers offers many services for family members of loved ones struggling with harmful substance use. These services are available to any family member concerned about substance use, during a loved one’s treatment, or after for recovery support and resources.

Family Treatment

Statistics show that patients whose families participate in drug and alcohol rehab have lower relapse rates. Caron’s in-depth family programs educate, guide, and support family members, so they understand the disease of addiction and what they need to do to achieve long-term recovery as a family.

By addressing the challenges within the family system, Caron gives families a foundation they can build on to create a healthy and open family system, one that works for everyone. We also introduce family members to our active alumni and family community so they can build connections with other families going through the same stage of treatment and others in long-term recovery.

Caron will meet you wherever you are in your journey to a life in recovery.

Family Services

Caron's Honest Talks, Healthy Connections is a free, virtual program designed to support parents and caregivers navigating the challenges of a loved one's substance use. Led by experienced Education Specialists, the program offers practical strategies and age-appropriate language to help parents engage in honest, compassionate conversations with their children about addiction, treatment, and recovery. Open to all caregivers, regardless of their affiliation with Caron, the program fosters a supportive community while reducing the stigma surrounding addiction. Participants can choose their level of engagement, with no requirement to speak or turn on their cameras, ensuring a comfortable and accessible experience.

Important Note

This program is specifically for parents and caregivers of young children impacted by another adult’s substance use.

Register here.

This series features parents who share how they are coping with the challenges of parenting a child with substance use disorder.

Impact of Substance Use Disorders on the Family: Hope for Recovery

This online course describes the impact of addiction on family members and suggests ways professionals can support, provide understanding, and offer resources to the children, teens, and families they serve.

Caron offers a range of events, both in person and virtually. The Family Series, funded by Jay and Lauren Springer, offers events that provide generalized education and information as well as more specialized programs geared specifically to couples, siblings, adult children, and others.

To view past Family Webinars click here.

PREP is a program designed for parents and caregivers of children in elementary, middle school and high school to offer information on a variety of topics related to substance use, abuse, and disorder.

"Powerful Parenting Prevention in 3 Minutes"

This video series of 10 micro-lessons provides parents with information and tips on topics that are key to guiding their child to a healthy lifestyle and creating a substance-free youth culture within their family. Each lesson is presented by an expert from Caron Treatment Center’s Education Alliance and is 3 minutes or less. Available in English and Spanish.

To find the series, click here.

Conversations That Matter- Behavioral Health Strategies for Building Resilience in Youth

This podcast series explores issues that affect youth mental and behavioral health and provides practical strategies for raising, nurturing, teaching, and encouraging children and teens to build healthy patterns that last a lifetime. In each episode, Tina George, Senior Coordinator of Student Assistance Programming, sits down to speak with an expert about critical topics that address the heart of the challenges our youth face, including social media usage, emerging substance abuse trends, and the pressure to perform.

Caron’s recovery specialists provide individualized, clinically driven support, focused on addressing the challenges of after treatment transitions for clients and their family members.

This program incorporates activities, including crafts, team-building exercises, recreation, and educational groups to help children with a family member who has a substance use disorder better understand and cope with the effects of the disease.

For more information, or to register, please visit here.

Breakthrough offers specially designed workshops at Caron Florida and Caron Pennsylvania that help anyone who desires emotional health, mutually satisfying relationships, and well-being.

We are thrilled to welcome back alumni and family members on a limited basis. Chapel visitation is approved on request for celebrating recovery anniversaries, as well as for bereavement and memorial visits. Approved visitors may bring one guest, unless otherwise approved by the Spiritual Care Staff. To request your return to chapel, please click here and fill out the form.

To view past Chapel services, click here.

Caron offers on-campus and regional resources, activities, and support for alumni, families, and friends. Through those connections, members can draw upon the collective experience, strength, and hope within our welcoming network of alumni who celebrate recovery.

The Caron Companion app is a powerful and convenient tool, providing easy access to Caron specific recovery resources and facilitating meaningful interactions.

To access, click here.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for leading the Family Education Program. It was incredibly informative and deeply impactful. I left feeling empowered, hopeful, and much more equipped to take the next steps in my own healing and recovery. I am especially grateful that, despite it not being standard right now, an exception was made for me to participate in the in-person session. The in-person experience was truly transformative for me. Being able to attend in person allowed everything to resonate on a deeper emotional level that I genuinely needed. By beginning to heal myself, I can now clearly see the path for my husband and me to continue healing together in a healthy and supportive way. That clarity is a gift I will always be grateful for. Please share my heartfelt thanks with everyone at Caron for allowing me to join and for making space for this part of the journey. I am so very grateful — and blessed — to say that our journey has just begun, and I feel stronger because of this program.

Britnay (spouse)
A man and a woman leaning on each other

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