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Inside This Issue
Give the Gift of Recovery Timely Announcements Important Reminders 25-in-25 Volunteer Recognition Program
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[You're Invited] Spend Your New Year's Eve with SMART!
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Join Our Annual SROL Around-The-World Event
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The holidays are here again. In keeping with our tradition at SMART Recovery, we are offering our annual New Year’s Eve Around-the-World event through SMART Recovery Online (SROL).
This nonstop meeting, with every-hour start times, begins at 7:30 a.m. ET on December 31, 2019, and ends at 2:30 a.m. ET on January 1, 2020. Online meetings are laid back and fun with hourly themes selected by that meeting’s host. Past meeting themes include standard recovery topics and discussions, trivia games, stories and poems, “bests” of the year (movies, songs, moments), open chat and discussion, and more.
* Please note that we will be unable to provide meeting verifications for attendance at meetings that happen as part of this event.
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[Social Share Message] Invite Your Family, Friends, & Community to Join Us!
Help us spread the word about our New Year's Eve Around-the-World event with everyone you know.
or copy/paste the following message into social media, an online meeting, or an email:
Looking for a safe and healthy way to celebrate New Year's Eve? Join us for our SMART Recovery Online NYE Around-the-World event! Online Zoom meetings kick off hourly through SROL, starting at 7:30 a.m. ET on December 31, and continuing through 2:30 a.m. ET on January 1. Meetings will cover a variety of laid back and fun themes selected by the meeting's host. Learn more about the FREE event: http://bit.ly/2LMJ9iM
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Watch Authentics - Now on YouTube!
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Short Film Featuring SMART Recovery Now Available Worldwide
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for our premiere of Authentics, the amazing new dramatic short film featuring SMART Recovery.
Feel free to share this film with your family, friends, meetings, and communities.
The film was written and directed by Daniel Stine of Rising Act Films and made possible by the generous support of The Chris & Debbie Swain Foundation who want our community to know that, "If this film helps to change just one life, we will consider our investment to have been a great success."
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Submit Meeting Change Requests for Upcoming Holidays
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We are approaching that time of year when meetings may be impacted by holidays. If you need to have a note posted, please submit a meeting change request form. We appreciate you using the form as it helps to make sure nothing is missed and participants do not drive to a meeting that is not happening.
For December holidays, please submit requests NO LATER than 12:00 p.m. ET on Monday, December 23. For New Year’s please submit NO LATER than 12:00 p.m. ET on Monday, December 30. |
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Deadline Approaching for Pass-the-Hat Donations
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Pass-the-hat contributions from our local meetings help us provide resources to our facilitators, offer training at a reduced cost to those who qualify, and support the enormous task of maintaining and improving the national website and its growing resources for volunteers and participants. Additionally, it is beneficial for meeting participants to feel they are investing in their ongoing recovery.
Include your meeting ID number, meeting city and state, so we can associate the donation with your group. |
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Join Weekly SMM Calls for SMART Volunteers
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SMART Meeting Management (SMM) Meetings are open to all active SMART Recovery Facilitators, Hosts, and Trainees interested in improving their knowledge base. The objective of the SMMs is to develop meeting management skills. We’ll discuss the tough and sensitive issues that arise and share successes and techniques, including following meeting guidelines, how to do SMART Recovery, and how to create an accepting, non-judgmental environment. Although facilitated, this is very much a group learning/support session. Call Details: - Dates and Times: SMM meetings take place weekly on Monday at 10:00 p.m. (ET) and Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. (ET)
- ZOOM: Please join us on Zoom for our next call.
- Call-In Number: To join us via cell, use this "one-tap" number: +19294362866,,154575482# US.
We encourage you to set recurring meetings in your calendar with the above link and/or number so that you are reminded to join us as often as possible. We hope to see you in a SMM meeting soon! |
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25-in-25 Volunteer Recognition Program
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In our 25th Anniversary year, we are honoring 25 volunteers who serve in a variety of roles. Learn more about this program and see the list of recognized volunteers.
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Perhaps Charles True's biggest contribution to SMART has come in his connection to InsideOut®, SMART's program for correctional settings. Charles and Ron Lott, another volunteer in the Houston-area, worked diligently to introduce InsideOut into the state prison system and, because of their success, have recently been granted full access to Texas prison facilities.
Charles and Ron recently modified the original SMART Recovery InsideOut® program, and coauthored and released Successful Life Skills, a meeting-ready format to help volunteers more confidently facilitate meeting discussions in a correctional environment.
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| As a self-described hands-on mom, Anne DeMarzo was shocked to learn that one of her children had a drug dependency. Eager to help her son, her family, and eventually others in similar situations, Anne sought and expanded resources in Staten Island.
Because of her research, Anne found SMART and over time began facilitating Family & Friends meetings. She worked to obtain a grant to fund the purchase of 320 handbooks and 25 facilitator training scholarships to help grow SMART's Family & Friends program in the Staten Island area. And she has helped SMART grow a partnership with Tackling Youth Substance Abuse (TYSA), a group of people and organizations united to decrease substance abuse among the youth of Staten Island.
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Here's a look at the most recent articles posted on the SMART Recovery Blog.
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Here's a look at the most recent videos posted to SMART Recovery's YouTube Channel. Subscribe to SMART's YouTube channel to be notified when new video content is released.
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Contact Melina Gilbert - Volunteer Outreach Coordinator
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| We recently announced the creation of a new position at SMART Recovery's National Office. Melina Gilbert has moved into the role of Volunteer Outreach Coordinator, and is now the main point of contact for our volunteers.
If you have questions, needs, feedback, please reach out to Melina at: |
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SMART Recovery is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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