REST Meetings

About REST: Resources, Education, Support, Together

The REST program:
  • Is designed for those who care for and love someone living with a substance use disorder and want to have a positive impacts.
  • Helps heal and renew relationships by providing resources, education, support, and connection through compassion, understanding, and love
  • Meets family members and friends where they are at, so they can do the same for their loved ones.
  • Provides a framework to cultivate new skills, strategies, and technique that change the narrative and redefine the role of families and friends.
  • Empowers families and friends to be a force that encourages a loved one to initiate and sustain a pathway of recovery while taking care of their well-being.
  • Offers a supportive community of people with common struggles, and a commitment to learning new ways to connect with their loved one.
REST is for adults 18 and over. The only requirement for attendance is to have a loved one living with a substance use disorder. Learn skills and strategies that can help change family dynamics and create an environment where your loved one can start working towards their full potential!

List of Meetings

Mondays, 7:00-8:30 pm EST
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Meeting ID: 171 429 653
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Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm EST

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Meeting ID: 171 429 653

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Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm EST

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Meeting ID: 844 778 900
Passcode: 030705

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+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

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Meet the Facilitator

Laurie MacDougall is a former math teacher and extremely active in the recovery community. She is a Certified Family Peer Specialist in the state of Rhode Island and serves as co-chair to the Family Task Force. She also sits on the RI Governor’s Overdose Intervention and Prevention Task Force.

Laurie has used her training and education as a teacher, training with the Community Reinforcement And Family Training (CRAFT) protocol & Motivation Interviewing, as well as her lived experience, to develop REST, an educational CRAFT based for families and friends designed to learn and explore new skills and strategies to cope and interact with a loved one living with substance use disorder.

Laurie has worked with hundreds of families nationally and internationally coaching and educating them in the CRAFT based approach, and has designed a crisis toolkit for families to create an individualized crisis plan. She also co-hosts a podcast, Coming up for Air, giving families and friends a voice in the recovery world.

Laurie Macdougal