Invitation to Change (ITC) Support Group - In-person and Virtual options

What is the ITC?

A community that welcomes the family and friends of those struggling with substance use issues.

• Learn how to encourage change for you and your loved one, in a place of openess and support.
• The Invitation to Change Approach(ITC) is grounded in compassion, connection and the belief that you can do something to help your loved one.
• Here, connect with a supportive community and engage with tools and techniques to use in your daily life.

Topics from the ITC approach include:

How to understand your loved one’s behaviors. 

What makes someone decide to change?

What if they don’t want to change? 

tools for encouraging change.

Taking care of yourself on this journey. 

How to stay connected when things are hard.

*The ITC was developed by Jeffrey Foote, PhD, Kenneth Carpenter, PhD and Carrie Wilkens, Phd who also parterned on their pionnering book Beyond Addiction. Their website is www.cmcffc.org. The ITC models brings together a number of evidence-based ideas and approaches with the goal of creating a model of “science and kindness”. With it’s “One size does not fit all” approach – it allows for diversity and inclusiviness. “It reaffirms that applying the familiy’s natural kindness and positive reinforcement, rather than withholding it, is what  makes change possible “ – Tom Hedrick, Founding Member, The Partnership of Drugfree.org.

This group is free and open to the public. Start Date Thursday, February 16 th 6pm

Text/ Call/email Paula Shulman, facilitator, at 802-379-5117 to register or for more information. p.shulman@myfairpoint.net

Location –Virtural and in Person at The Arlington Common 3938 Rt 7A – Arlington, VT 05250

Paula Shulman, LICSW – LADC, lives in Arlington, Vermont, raised her daughter there and runs a private practice in additon

to working as the Evaluator for the Impaired Driver Rehabilitation program for Bennington County.