Supporting Teen Recovery in Meaningful Ways

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Subject: Supporting Teen Recovery in Meaningful Ways

Dear Friend,

When teens face trouble, especially with substance or self-abuse, the barriers to help can be especially significant. There might be a natural reluctance to reach out to the “adult world,” or avoidance of issues that seem unsolvable, perhaps because of teen tendencies for thinking in extremes. Many teens get stuck in negative downward spirals, leading to damaging consequences and emotional despair.

Luckily for those who have found it, SMART Recovery has become a growing solution to stopping negative behavior in the teen population. Teens relate to SMART’s stigma free and self-empowering approach.

This is in part due to people like Eboni Jewel Sears, who found the SMART Recovery program and volunteer their time to facilitate mutual support meetings in local communities around the country. Eboni is a facilitator for teens age 14-19 years old at Alternative Peer Group in Las Vegas. Through her efforts, she loves seeing the teens who attend her meetings grow using SMART’s tools focusing on self-esteem, unconditional acceptance of self, others, and life, and making good decisions.

As demonstrated in Eboni’s story, the ripple effect of impacting one life impacts others. It is because of individuals like Eboni, who experience SMART and then decide to use their time, energy, and resources to spread its self-empowering messages, that we are able to reach more and more people who need support.

Unfortunately, there are communities – and teens – across the country who still desperately need increased access to free, self-empowering, science-based mutual help groups. We are working to meet that need.

Your year-end gift to our Growth Fund will be put to work immediately, to help more people like Eboni and the teens in her meetings find the self-empowering recovery tools and peer support they need to overcome addiction and go on to live fulfilling and meaningful lives.

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Thank you for believing in the Teens and Young Adults of SMART.

Mark Ruth

Executive Director

SMART Recovery is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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Subject: Supporting Teen Recovery in Meaningful Ways