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 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 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 program that helps families overcome addiction and thrive together.
We The Village coaches have deep personal and professional experience with a combined total of over 100 years helping families like yours get through addiction recovery - we have seen and worked through it all.
Our coaches have completed the highest level of training in the leading evidence based practice to work specifically with families who are impacted by a loved one's addiction - working with concerned family members is what we do.
Our program has helped hundreds of families improve their situations and has been validated in clinical studies - we aren’t just making this up as we go along, we have a method to help you and it works.
With our online coaching program, you can professional support while learning how to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change.
Get tools and support to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change simply by changing the way you communicate, interact with and respond to your loved one.
CRAFT is proven to be the leading therapeutic approach for the almost half (46%) of Americans who are impacted by a loved one’s substance use or recovery today. It has been studied in at least 10 well controlled clinical trials and achieves reliable results.
Whether you want to feel better yourself, help a loved one reduce harmful substance use, or engage in treatment, or all of the above - we can help you achieve the goals you have for your loved one, and yourself.
The data speaks for itself, and what's more, we see quality of life improve for you and your loved one.
With our online coaching program, you can professional support while learning how to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change.
Get tools and support to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change simply by changing the way you communicate, interact with and respond to your loved one.
CRAFT is proven to be the leading therapeutic approach for the almost half (46%) of Americans who are impacted by a loved one’s substance use or recovery today. It has been studied in at least 10 well controlled clinical trials and achieves reliable results.
powerless, unsure who to talk to or how to help, like you've tried everything, or maybe questioning whether you should even keep trying at all.
You might have heard about...
or even tried, the likes of support groups, therapists, and interventionists and while any support may be helpful, it's simply not as reliable or impactful as what we offer you here.
Whether you want to feel better yourself, help a loved one reduce harmful substance use, get into and stay engaged in treatment, support their continued recovery, or all of the above.
We can help you achieve the goals you have for your loved one, yourself and your family.
With over 100 years of combined personal & professional experience, We The Village coaches have guided countless families through addiction recovery — helping families is what we do best.
Our coaches are trained at the highest level in the leading evidence-based practice for supporting those impacted by a loved one’s addiction — we are the leading experts in the CRAFT method.
Our program has helped hundreds of individuals and families improve their lives and is validated by clinical studies — this isn't guesswork; it's a proven method that works.
With our online coaching program, you can professional support while learning how to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change.
Get tools and support to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change simply by changing the way you communicate, interact with and respond to your loved one.
CRAFT is proven to be the leading therapeutic approach for the almost half (46%) of Americans who are impacted by a loved one’s substance use or recovery today. It has been studied in at least 10 well controlled clinical trials and achieves reliable results.
The data speaks for itself, and what's more, we see quality of life improve for you and your loved one.
With our online coaching program, you can professional support while learning how to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change.
Get tools and support to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change simply by changing the way you communicate, interact with and respond to your loved one.
CRAFT is proven to be the leading therapeutic approach for the almost half (46%) of Americans who are impacted by a loved one’s substance use or recovery today. It has been studied in at least 10 well controlled clinical trials and achieves reliable results.
Our programme is based on Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), this approach uses the influence a family member has to shift a loved one's harmful behaviours and create positive, lasting change simply by adjusting the way we communicate and interact with a loved one.
You are the expert on your loved one and we are the expert on this approach and together we can make recovery happen.
Over 12 weeks, you will receive the complete CRAFT skillset, and more, to support a loved one through addiction recovery with 12 modular lessons giving you techniques to increase your loved ones recovery motivation and follow through.
Plus, you can get expert guidance and support tailored to achieve your goals, if you choose to have individual sessions with our Coach.
Positive change starts with simple actions, through our programme you will:
With our online coaching program, you can professional support while learning how to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change.
Get tools and support to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change simply by changing the way you communicate, interact with and respond to your loved one.
CRAFT is proven to be the leading therapeutic approach for the almost half (46%) of Americans who are impacted by a loved one’s substance use or recovery today. It has been studied in at least 10 well controlled clinical trials and achieves reliable results.
The data speaks for itself, and what's more, we see quality of life improve for you and your loved one.
With our online coaching program, you can professional support while learning how to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change.
Get tools and support to shift their addictive behavior and create positive, lasting change simply by changing the way you communicate, interact with and respond to your loved one.
CRAFT is proven to be the leading therapeutic approach for the almost half (46%) of Americans who are impacted by a loved one’s substance use or recovery today. It has been studied in at least 10 well controlled clinical trials and achieves reliable results.
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That is why we have taken the time (years) to rigorously test and refine our programmes to ensure they reliably help individuals just like you, achieve your personal goals for yourself and your family.
In as little as three months, clients reported improvements in their wellbeing, stronger family connections, and greater influence over their loved one’s substance use and treatment engagement.
In as little as three months, participants reported improvements in their wellbeing, stronger family connections, and greater influence over their loved one’s substance use and treatment engagement in the following ways.
To validate our approach, we partnered with a leading nonprofit research organization to conduct well-controlled clinical trials with over 250 participants across 46 states, confirming the proven impact of our family program.
Clinical trials were made possible with funding from The National Institute on Drug Abuse.
In as little as three months, participants reported improvements in their wellbeing, stronger family connections, and greater influence over their loved one’s substance use and treatment engagement in the following ways.
Improve your wellbeing and functioning
Reported at 6 months that the program made them feel less depressed about their loved one.
Reported at 3 months that the program made them feel less angry about their loved one.
Reported at 3 months that the program helped them feel more confident about how to handle their loved one’s substance use problem.
Increase your connection with your loved one
Reported at 3 months that the program improved the quality of the relationship with their loved one.
Reported at 3 months that the program improved communication with their loved one
Reported at 3 months that the program enables them to have more influence with their loved one
Influence substance use and willingness to enter treatment
Reported at 3 months that their loved one had entered into new treatment.
Participants were nearly three times more likely to report that their loved one entered new treatment compared to an online support group.
Participants who had a loved one in treatment at the beginning of the program were still in treatment after 6 months.
"My son made it into a recovery program in California! I realize through my participation in your course, I now have the tools needed to succeed in supporting him no matter what the outcome."
"The best part? Having others that relate to what I'm going through, support and learning new techniques to use with my loved one...I come in frustrated and leave sessions hopeful and optimistic."
"That is the biggest difference between CRAFT and a 12 steps program. CRAFT provides you the tools to play in the arena to change your outcomes whereas 12 steps has you sitting on the sidelines waiting."
"As a nurse working with opioid use disorder, I interact with families every day. We are considered on the front lines of the opiate epidemic, but it is really families who are the frontline defense. I completed the Self-Guided CRAFT training program and found the training I received to provide great value. In addition to pursuing further learning with We The Village myself, I intend to also pursue purchasing their digital training for three additional members of my nursing team who I work with so that they also gain the skills to support families, and ultimately patient recovery from opioid use disorder."
"I am so excited to finally be a certified CRAFT clinician! With CRAFT I'm experiencing such an extraordinary impact on the families I work with, and CRAFT has been met with great curiosity by colleagues who want to know my "secret sauce". I'm obviously very enthusiastic about CRAFT!"
"As a student that plans on entering the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counseling space within the next few years, this training was incredibly helpful for me. Since completing this training, I have begun an externship with an outpatient substance use clinic in Manhattan, and have been able to apply the CRAFT skills I learned with my clients there. Not only that, but taking this course definitely boosted my confidence in a therapeutic setting."
Instantly access the online program to support their addiction recovery.
Get weekly Group Coaching and instantly access the Online Program.
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