Meetings & Recovery Groups
This well-known fellowship supports people who want to stop drinking.
What is AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)?
This person helps guide another member through the 12 Steps.
Who is a sponsor?
A substance-free place where people in recovery live together is commonly called this.
What is sober living/recovery housing?
Churches and other faith communities can provide this important recovery benefit.
What is support/community?
Continuing counseling and recovery services after leaving residential treatment is commonly called this.
What is continuing care/aftercare?
This 12-Step fellowship supports people recovering from drug addiction.
What is NA (Narcotics Anonymous)?
Friends, family, peers, and others who encourage your recovery make up this.
What is a support system?
One basic expectation of most sober living homes is that residents don't do this.
What is use alcohol or drugs?
Quietly focusing your attention and becoming aware of the present moment can be a form of this.
What is meditation?
Staying connected with former clients and treatment-program activities after discharge may be part of this type of program.
What is an alumni program?
This 12-Step fellowship focuses specifically on recovery from crystal meth.
What is CMA (Crystal Meth Anonymous)?
When you're struggling, doing this instead of keeping everything to yourself is an important recovery skill.
What is reaching out/asking for help?
Curfews, chores, meetings, and drug testing may all be examples of these in recovery housing.
What are house rules/expectations?
Helping at a food bank, animal shelter, church, or community organization without being paid is called this.
What is volunteering?
Going from residential treatment to IOP or outpatient treatment is commonly called doing this.
What is stepping down in level of care?
This fellowship provides peer support specifically for people seeking recovery from fentanyl and other opioids.
What is Fentanyl Anonymous?
A person with lived recovery experience who is trained to help others in recovery may have this role.
What is a peer support specialist?
This national organization provides democratically run, self-supporting recovery homes.
What is Oxford House?
Exercise, sports, hobbies, and substance-free social events are examples of this.
What is sober recreation?
This Wichita resource helps connect people with peer support and other community recovery resources.
What is Recovery Hub?
AA, NA, CMA, and other 12-Step fellowships use these numbered principles as part of recovery.
What are the 12 Steps?
If you need help finding sober living before leaving treatment, this member of your treatment team is a good person to talk to.
Who is the case manager?
Living with other people who are working toward recovery can provide both support and this when you are responsible for following through.
What is accountability?
Spirituality does NOT require someone to belong to one of these.
What is a religion?
Building connections with people who are also living substance-free can help you develop this important part of long-term recovery.
What is a sober support network?
This Wichita recovery club provides a place for meetings, fellowship, and connecting with others in recovery.
What is the 101 Club?
A sponsor primarily helps someone do this within a 12-Step program.
What is work the Steps?
Before entering a sober living home, it's important to understand its cost, rules, curfew, and these expectations related to recovery.
What are recovery/meeting requirements?
Identifying what is most important to you can help you discover these principles that guide how you want to live.
What are values?
If you don't know what community resources you need after treatment, this person on your treatment team can help you identify and connect with them.
Who is the case manager?
A recovery meeting that welcomes visitors, family members, and other interested people is known as this.
What is an open meeting?
Depending on only one person for all your recovery support can be risky, so it's important to develop this.
What is a larger support network?
Returning to a household where people are actively using substances may create this after treatment.
What is a high-risk recovery environment?
This sober active community uses fitness, exercise, and other activities to help people connect in recovery.
What is The Phoenix?
Finding sober living, scheduling continuing treatment, and connecting with community supports should ideally begin at this point rather than the day you leave RTC.
What is before discharge/during discharge planning?
This Christian-based recovery program combines faith, fellowship, and recovery principles.
What is Celebrate Recovery?
Telling someone you're struggling before you return to substance use demonstrates this important recovery behavior.
What is honesty/asking for help?
Before choosing sober living, you should consider its rules, costs, location, structure, and whether it does this.
What is support my recovery needs?
Meaning, purpose, connection, values, and something greater than yourself can all be parts of this broad concept.
What is spirituality?
Meetings, sober living, outpatient treatment, peers, recreation, and faith communities demonstrate why recovery shouldn't depend on only this many resources.
What is one?
This secular recovery program uses a 4-Point Program rather than the 12 Steps.
What is SMART Recovery?
Healthy support people encourage you while still expecting you to take this for your own choices and recovery.
What is responsibility/accountability?
This faith-based program provides a longer-term residential recovery approach than a typical short RTC stay.
What is Adult & Teen Challenge?
Helping others through volunteering, service work, or your recovery community can provide more of this in your life.
What is meaning/purpose?
Housing, transportation, employment, healthcare, food, recovery support, and healthy relationships can all contribute to creating this after treatment.
What is stability in recovery?
AA, NA, CMA, Fentanyl Anonymous, SMART Recovery, and similar groups provide this type of support rather than professional treatment.
What is mutual-help/peer support?
Sponsors, peers, counselors, family, sober friends, case managers, and faith communities can all provide different forms of this protective factor.
What is social/recovery support?
Recovery housing isn't the same as treatment. Its purpose is to provide a substance-free environment along with these important benefits.
What are structure, accountability, and support?
Fitness, volunteering, faith communities, hobbies, sober events, and meetings can all help someone develop this.
What is a recovery community?
There isn't one right recovery pathway for everyone. The goal is to identify several people, places, organizations, and activities that do this.
What is support my recovery?