Open Call for Study Participants
Help yourself, your loved one, your family…and science!
Current study openings
For family members wanting to learn CRAFT-based approaches to help their own families…
Studies are looking to enroll family members for participation in further research on CRAFT. Learn more about the phenomenal opportunities provided, below!
Seeking Concerned Parents, Family, & Friends of Young Adults using Opiates - Maryland Residents Only
Maryland Treatment Center, Mountain Manor Treatment Center, & Building Opioid Recovery Support Networks (BOND)
Ongoing recruitment
For Family & Friends within the state of Maryland with a young adult (under 30) with concerning opioid use
FREE CRAFT-based services • In Person & Telehealth
Do you have a young adult loved one under 30 struggling with opioid addiction? Do you want help to get your loved one into treatment and/or to stay in treatment?
We can help!
You can improve your quality of life while helping your loved one get better!
Based on the evidence-based Community Reinforcement And Family Training (CRAFT) model, we can provide the guidance and tools you need to help your loved one achieve healthier results. Learn about effective communication skills, how to increase your loved one's motivation, and even how to access resources to support their recovery.
For residents of Maryland with a loved one under 30 using fentanyl, heroin, Percocet, or other opioids. This approach provides help for you with the goal of helping your loved one but does not require that your loved one participate. Services can be in-person or remote by telehealth.
The Building Opioid Recovery Support Networks (BOND) program is part of a study project that aims to engage and retain young adults in relapse prevention medication for opioid use disorder (BOND; CTN-0147). The NIDA grant through the Clinical Trials Network (CTN) is led by Dr. Marc Fishman at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Maryland Treatment Centers and Dr. Lisa Marsch at Dartmouth College. The project is working to increase MOUD initiation and treatment outcomes and teach parents and concerned significant others how to help their young adult get into treatment.
At this time, we have free in person and telehealth clinical services for concerned significant others of young adults with opioid addiction.
Have questions? Contact Luciana Lavorato, LCPC, by phone (240-739-0601) or email her at llavorato@marylandtreatment.org.
Families with Substance Use and Psychosis: Pilot Study Recruitment
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program at McLean Hospital; Julie McCarthy, PhD, Certified CRAFT Therapist, Coder, and Trainer
Recruitment is expected to close on Saturday, December 28, 2024
For Families within the United States with a loved one experiencing psychosis and substance use
FREE CRAFT services, Payment offered for participation • Online
Do you feel like you are walking on eggshells around your loved one? Do you want skills backed by research to help you and your loved one move forward in recovery from the comfort of your own home?
Our telehealth Community Reinforcement and Family Training for Early Psychosis (CRAFT-EP) and substance use program aims to improve how families can support a loved one’s recovery goals by improving communication, treatment engagement, and overall wellbeing, while creating healthy boundaries and problem solving. The project is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and is studying whether CRAFT-EP is helpful beyond usual care and identifying the needs and strengths of families and their loved ones with substance use and psychosis.
The researchers are looking for relatives of clients with early course psychosis (schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform, psychosis NOS, delusional disorder, brief psychotic disorder, major depression with psychosis, and bipolar disorder with psychosis) with first onset in the past 6 years. The client must have used cannabis or alcohol in the past 30 days and/or have no apparent immediate interest in abstinence. Participation of a family member and their loved one with psychosis is encouraged but not required.
Compensation is up to $200 for completing three study visits, a brief follow-up visit, and focus group. Family members may also receive eight one-hour CRAFT coaching sessions at no cost to them.
Enrollment for this study is expected to close on Saturday, December 28, 2024.
For further details, please review this informational pdf.
If you or someone you know you may be eligible to participate, please complete the survey at this link.
If you have questions or would like to connect, please feel free to contact research assistant Patrick Kelly (pkelly15@mgb.org or 617-855-3089) or Dr. Julie McCarthy (jmccarthy@mclean.harvard.edu or 617-855-3521).
And for providers wanting to learn CRAFT to help their communities…
CRAFT Professional Training Study
We The Village: Dr. Robert Meyers, Jane Macky
Enrollment Open Now- Cohorts formed on a rolling basis beginning November 4, 2024 and continuing into 2025
Free • NASW CEs- 4 minimum. 12 NAADAC CEs.
Online • Asynchronous training; some study conditions receive live group sessions
We the Village is excited to announce an online training opportunity for professionals residing in the United States to learn Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT).
With funding from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), We The Village is conducting a research study designed to find the optimal way for professionals to learn the CRAFT protocol online and to ultimately help clients influence their loved ones to enter treatment and/or stay in recovery. By participating in this study, professionals will have a unique chance to learn CRAFT in the only online training from Dr. Bob Meyers, creator of CRAFT, at no cost.
Space is limited and this training will be available at no cost for a limited time only, so click the link below and complete a quick survey to find out if you’re eligible today!
Why participate in research?
Aside from the personal benefits of receiving free (and excellent!!) CRAFT care, (and even financial reimbursement offered through McLean’s study), there is an even greater good that is served when family members enroll in research studies like the ones listed above.
Research is a way of systematically comparing approaches while eliminating or accounting for as many variables as possible.
The reason why we know CRAFT works for so many families is because researchers have measured the effects… again and again and again!! Multiple studies have compared CRAFT against several other popularly used models… and found CRAFT to be effective (and in some cases highly superior) for encouraging a loved one towards treatment, reducing their use over time, and/or increasing the families wellbeing. There’s even studies that found that loved ones whose family learn CRAFT stayed in treatment longer!
To do research on CRAFT or CRAFT-based approaches we need people who are willing to participate in that research.
The more research we have on the effects of CRAFT, and the more people who are willing to participate in that research, the better and more robust the information becomes about what is actually helpful to families and their loved ones.
And this is where you come in! If you, or someone else you know, might possibly be eligible to participate in either of these studies, please reach out to the researchers to learn more. It not only helps you, your loved one, and your family. It also helps the field as a whole!