Angie Scott, MS. MHC
Training & Family Services Manager

Angie found We The Village in 2019, as a client in search of skills to help a loved one struggling with addiction. Inspired by the positive impact CRAFT had in her own family and driven by the need for greater access to these services, Angie became a Certified CRAFT Clinician in 2021. Since then, she has guided hundreds of people through individual and group coaching with We The Village, helping them to better support their loved ones.

In 2024, Angie joined the We The Village team full-time, became certified as a CRAFT supervisor and continues to provide CRAFT coaching to families while supporting efforts to train professionals in CRAFT. 

Angie is also a trainer for Youth Mental Health First Aid, trained in facilitating SMART Friends and Family Groups, and a practitioner of the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method. Angie holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology.

Erica Lubetkin, LMHC, NCC
Family Coach & Certified CRAFT Clinician

Erica has been a coach at We The Village since 2018. A native New Yorker, Erica is a Nationally Board Certified Mental Health Counselor and Certified CRAFT Clinician.

Erica has an extensive background working with the substance use population as well as their families and also brings with her a depth of lived experience having worked through substance use disorder in her own family.

"Helping individuals learn, heal, and grow is a deeply fulfilling experience for both myself, and the client. Off the bat I share my sense of humor, which helps foster a great therapeutic alliance from the start.

I work with my clients in a non-judgmental, creative and collaborative environment that encourages change."

Jane Macky, MHC-LP
Founder, CEO & Family Coach

Jane holds a Masters in Mental Health Counseling, a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Yale University and is Certified CRAFT Clinician and Supervisor.

She participated in the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs in 2016, was strategy lead in the global Support Don't Punish campaign, was recognized as a real leader by Real Leaders Magazine in their 2019 Fall edition and received the Caron Unsung hero award in 2022.

After an early career in digital strategy for Fortune 500 companies—and years of firsthand experience supporting a loved one through substance use disorder—Jane turned her focus in 2017 to solving a problem dear to her heart - making a leading evidence-based therapy available to the 46% of Americans who could help a loved one recover from a substance use disorder (SUD) with proven, positive behavioral change skills that help families recover better, together.

She partnered with Dr. Robert J. Meyers, the creator of CRAFT, to produce the first and only online CRAFT program for families that has demonstrated efficacy in full-scale clinical trials and through We The Village has already helped more than 1,000 families navigate recovery together.

The only clinically proven online programs

We The Village exists to help
families recover better, together.

We The Village exists to help families recover better, together.

When a loved one is struggling with substance use, traditional approaches advise families
to focus on their own wellbeing while distancing themselves.

We take a different approach, one that is clinically validated and focuses on reconnecting families and teaching practical skills to interact effectively with your loved one rather than distancing.

The result? Reduced substance use, increased treatment entry, long-term recovery,
stronger family bonds, and greater overall wellbeing.

We’ve proven that maintaining healthy relationships is key to recovery.
Supporting your loved one and preserving your connection aren’t mutually exclusive
— in fact, both are essential for lasting progress.

If you’re a concerned family member, connection is your super power
— ours is the expertise to help you harness it.
When a loved one is struggling with substance use, traditional approaches advise families to focus on their own wellbeing while distancing themselves.

We take a different approach, one that is clinically validated and focuses on reconnecting families and teaching practical skills to interact effectively with your loved one rather than distancing.

The result? Reduced substance use, increased treatment entry, long-term recovery, stronger family bonds, and greater overall wellbeing.

We’ve proven that maintaining healthy relationships is key to recovery.

Supporting your loved one and preserving your connection aren’t mutually exclusive — in fact, both are essential for lasting progress.

If you’re a concerned family member, connection is your super power — ours is the expertise to help you harness it.
OUR STORY
Hi, we’re Jane and Calum — concerned family members who, like so many others, have loved someone battling addiction. Calum has also been in recovery himself for over a decade. Together, we want to share our journey and why we created We The Village in 2017 — not because our stories are unique, but because they are heartbreakingly common. Chances are, our experiences mirror your own.

When addiction touched our closest relationships, we desperately sought answers — attending 12-step groups, talk therapy, and even costly interventions. Yet, these approaches often left us, the caring and motivated family members, feeling misunderstood, judged, and sidelined.

We were told our problem was enabling, that we were codependent, and essentially powerless.
The prevailing advice? Set more boundaries, detach, and disconnect.
But that just didn’t sit right with us.
Surely, there had to be something we could do or say to help our loved ones.

Thankfully, we didn’t give up.
Eventually, we discovered a compassionate, clinically proven approach that leveraged the power of our relationships. This method gave us practical frameworks and principles — guiding us to words and actions that increased connection and helped us influence positive change and recovery.

As we saw this approach work for our families, and learned that nearly half of Americans love someone struggling with addiction, we realized we had a key role to play in changing the way the world recovers.

So committed to this goal, we went back to school and assembled a team of industry leaders to create a better way forward — for families, for loved ones, and for recovery itself.

We joined forces with world-leading family recovery expert Dr. Robert J. Meyers, creator of the Community Reinforcement and Family Training model, and seasoned behavioral scientist Dr. Kimberley Kirby, nationally recognized for her work in addictions, to develop our programs. It was paramount to us that we ensured families had access to programs that we could confidently stand behind, ones that deliver the most positive impact possible with consistency. That is why we put our programs through multiple rounds of rigorous clinical testing thanks to the support and funding from The National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Since 2017, we’ve been working passionately and meticulously, step-by-step, day-by-day,
to forge a new path for family recovery.

If you’re loving someone through addiction, you are not alone.
There is hope, and together, we can change the story of recovery — one family at a time.

We are honored that more than 1,000 families have trusted us to date.
Their courage and commitment inspire everything we do.
49
%

of Americans are impacted by a loved one’s addiction

Together, we can make a difference.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Connection not detachment.

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Proven methods not theories.

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Accessibility is not negotiable.

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Knowledge & Skills is power.

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OUR TEAM
Our team is uniquely expert in guiding families and training professionals to face addiction and get through recovery together. We are the world leading experts in CRAFT, here to provide you the skills and confidence in your path forward.

Angie Scott

MS-MHC

Family Coach
& Training Facilitator

Courtney Hupp

LCSW, CADC

Professional Trainer

Erica Lubetkin

LMHC

Family Coach

Leah Block

LCSW, CASAC

Family Coach

Michelle Kuecker

LCSW, LAC

Professional Trainer
& Family Coach

Jacqui MacKenzie

Community
& Social Media

Calum Handley

Chief Product Officer

Dr. Kimberley Kirby

Chief Research Officer

Dr. Robert J. Meyers

Chief Training Officer,
Creator of the CRAFT method

Jane Macky

CEO, Supervisor

About Us

Today nearly half of us love someone struggling with substance use or addiction, and mental health professionals are increasingly seeking to help these families.

We The Village exists to ensure every professional and every family faced with addiction has the top quality skills and support to fight it. By training professionals or directly working with just one family member, we can change everything.

Our approach is inspired by and developed in collaboration with Dr. R.J. Meyers, creator of the leading evidence-based family method Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT). Our team is uniquely expert in training professionals and families to face addiction and get through recovery together.‍
And we have the data to prove it!
1. In 2020, we completed a pilot clinical trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and proved the efficacy of our online family program in treatment entry and improved family functioning.

2. We were subsequently funded to conduct a full-scale clinical trial which is scheduled to be completed in Q2 of 2024.

3. In 2023, we developed and completed a pilot clinical trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) successfully training Mental Health professionals online in our method to replicate the results of our own highly trained professionals.

We’ve done the research so you don’t have to.

Make a difference today.

Our programs have been designed with experts, and proven effective in randomized clinical trials funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Get in touch: hello@wethevillage.co
We The Village, Inc. 2025