Leading health and addiction programme coordinators SMART Recovery Australia and newly established telehealth detox providers, Clean Slate Clinic will join established rural frontline advocates Sober in the Country Ltd  (SITC) to form a historic national partnership to reduce alcohol-related harm in rural, regional, and remote Australia. The partnership is uniting to address the staggering statistic that people living in remote areas are 160% more likely to be risky lifetime drinkers.  The collaboration will provide telehealth specialist withdrawal and recovery services to 10,000 ind ..read more

SMART Recovery Australia Webinar: Giving birth to change: The personal journey of a FSAD mother Date: January 30th 11am AEDT (1 hour) Angelene Bruce is a lived experience expert for FARE and NOFASD Australia. She is also a member of the Victorian FASD Special Interest Group and a fierce advocate for FASD awareness and prevention. Ange has lived experience of alcohol and poker machine addiction. She is also the biological mother to a child with diagnosed Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder caused by prenatal alcohol exposure during pregnancy. Ange is passionate about FASD awareness and ending ..read more

Thank you for your support of SMART Recovery Australia,  There is great possibility in our country right now and there is great possibility at SMART Recovery.  It was wonderful to share with you our first Annual Report and our new Strategic Plan.  A Strategic Plan that is unapologetically bold. Under our new Strategic Plan Our Ambition is by 2027 to grow from supporting 2,000 people weekly to 10,000. To go from delivering over 200 meetings weekly to holding 1,000 meetings. To be Australia’s first choice in mutual support.    Every year roughly half a million Austr ..read more

SMART Recovery Australia Webinar: Supporting Family and Friends During this panel discussion and we will hear the perspectives of Family and Friends Facilitators and Participants whom are currently or have journeyed through the Family and Friends program. Please join us for a one of event that will hope to inspire, encourage and explore the positive impacts this program. Link to register- Click Here >> PrevPreviousMedia Release: SMART Recovery Australia welcomes NSW drug-treatment funding The post Supporting Family and Friends: A Panel Discussion appeared first on SMART Recove ..read more

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22nd September 2022  SMART Recovery Australia has welcomed the NSW Government’s response to the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’. Over the past decade, the drug has become increasingly prevalent with estimates suggesting around 28,000 people are dependent on it in NSW alone. [1] SMART Recovery Australia, a harm minimisation mutual aid support group, said the half-a-billion package announced by the NSW Government yesterday is much needed and applauded the focus on early intervention. “This groundbreaking funding will help more people across NSW seek and receive evidenced ..read more

#RecoveryStories Jarrod Shares His Recovery Story Jarrod grew up in rural New Zealand, living the idyllic lifestyle of a farmer’s son – hunting, shooting, fishing, riding motorbikes and driving tractors were the usual activities.  When Jarrod left school he went into newspaper printing, which was a lot of night shift work, and the printing industry in the late 80s was very heavily focused on a drinking culture.  “I was a wide-eyed farm boy and coming into a new culture was quite an eye-opener. It was almost like a right of passage to go to the pub for the evening then have a sho ..read more

SMART Recovery Australia Reflections on the Rethink Addiction National Convention 2022 Some members of the SMART Recovery Australia team were privileged to have the opportunity to attend the 2-day inaugural Rethink Addiction Conference in Canberra, with around 300 other addiction specialists and survivors also participating. Addiction is a health condition that can affect one in five Australians. It is a national crisis as it remains a neglected health issue that is both criminalised and stigmatised. This results in many people being unable or reluctant to access the support and ..read more

SMART Recovery Australia Rethink Addiction National Convention Join us to support Rethink Addiction SMART Recovery is proud to sponsor the inaugural Rethink Addiction National Convention this September. SMART supports over 2,000 Australians weekly to have a conversation around addiction and behaviours of concern without any stigma or shame. “It is time that we had that conversation together as a country. Let us shift the narrative from blame and shame to one of mutual aid, self-management and harm minimisation. This is a historic moment for us as a country to come together and Rethink A ..read more

SMART Recovery International Introducing Online Training in French SMART Recovery Partner Affiliate Le CAP is proud to announce the launch of its new online facilitator certification training platform – the first platform in the world to offer a French-language certification training based on the SMART Recovery approach.   The platform is intended for French-speaking mental health or addiction professionals, as well as organisations and companies that wish to strengthen the professional skills of their teams.   The training is based on a self-learning model and allows learners ..read more