NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS
10920 Connecticut Ave, Kensington, MD 20895 www.nacoa.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Educate and advocate for all children and families affected by alcoholism and other drug dependencies.

NACoAs programs include developing and updating publications and kits that educate and encourage at risk children and families to find hope and healing from their exposure to substance use disorders in the family. A substantial part of NACoAs work is the development of tools and training programs for professionals educators, clergy, primary care providers, treatment and recovery support personnel. In 2017, NACoA 1) provided in-person, on site one day trainings for clergy and other faith leaders in three states reaching 275, and training to 900+ faith leaders and their staffs via three 2-hour webinars and seven 90-minute webinars, 2) hosted Celebrating Families!TM trainings to over 190 group facilitators in 2-day on-site workshops in 13 sites in ten states, and three train-the-trainers sessions held in three states, 3) provided a one-week intensive training for two representatives from Sweden on using NACoAs childrens program kit, which they had translated into Swedish, they returned to Sweden and then trained teams across their country who can then implement education support group services in their agencies and communities, 4) continued the development and testing of the 0-3 years additions to its five-volume Celebrating Families!TM curriculum, 5) distributed curriculum materials to over 40 sites, 6) finalized and tested the complementary on-line version of the seminary curriculum, Addiction and Families, created the previous year, 7) provided 400+ comprehensive faith leader course training manuals and handbooks free of charge, 8) began the development of a new, expanded educational website and online professional training center, 9) supported the Sober St. Patricks Day expanded education program, 10) responded to hundreds of calls from children of alcoholics and people trying to help them, 11) again sponsored the annual international campaign for COA Awareness Week in February, 12) provided the voice for children and families in the addiction leadership group and in the whole health coalition, the two collaborating groups of national leaders in the areas related to substance use prevention and treatment and mental health disorders, 13) continued to chair the strategic planning and sustainability committee of recovery month which reaches millions of impacted families, NACoA distributed Recovery Month information materials and strategies to 45 affiliates and hundreds of faith leaders, and 14) in 2019 further developed a major content rich website to serve professionals who work with children and impacted children and families. During 2019, NACoA received a grant to update its manual Children of Addiction: A Kit for Educators, and to provide a webinar (attended by over 350 participants) to introduce the Kit. NACoAs program work in 2019 centered on the expansion of its current signature product, Celebrating Families!TM, a whole family recovery curriculum and provided training for multiple sites across the country, with the program already in over 30 states. Program income from these efforts is supporting the development of new trainings for childrens education support groups in schools, treatment centers, and community youth organizations. The work on the development of a new comprehensive Childrens Program Kit -- a complete tool kit for establishing and managing a childrens support program, and training opportunities for using it went on all year. The final Kit will be released in early 2020. NACoA also began the updating of its clergy training products and continued its long-running clergy training project. In 2019, NACoA became one of 30 National Leadership Council for the new and emerging Police, Treatment, Community Collaboration (PTACC) which has been established to create programs of Deflection of individuals who need assistance with mental health or substance use problems. NACoA chairs the Children and Families Action Group for this rapidly growing collaboration.

During 2019, NACoA received a grant to update its manual Children of Addiction: A Kit for Educators, and to provide a webinar (attended by over 350 participants) to introduce the Kit and demonstrate its use by educators in their prevention efforts to support children and youth harmed by parental addiction. NACoAs program work in 2019 centered on the expansion of its current signature product, Celebrating Families!TM, a whole family recovery curriculum and provided training for multiple sites across the country, with the program already in over 30 states. Program income from these efforts is supporting the development of new trainings for childrens education support groups in schools, treatment centers, and community youth organizations. The final work on the development of a new comprehensive childrens support program tool kit, NACoAs Childrens Program Kit, and training opportunities for using it went on all year. The final Kit will be released in early 2020. NACoA also began the updating of its clergy training products and distributed over 3,000 of its updated Handbook for Clergy. Additional seminary curriculum on addiction and the family were distributed to 70 seminaries in 2019, continuing the long-running clergy training project. NACoA managed the annual Ramstad/Kennedy Award again in 2019 honoring a state leader who was an outstanding supporter of addiction recovery programs. NACoA partnered with Sesame Street in Communities throughout the year in the establishment and support of a section on parental addiction, providing educational tools for adults who work with children to use in providing understanding and support for children in families with addiction. This is an ongoing effort.

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