This is why the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) and its affiliates promote Children of Alcoholics Week 2004 from Sunday, February 8 through Saturday, February 14. The theme of this public awareness campaign, "A Celebration of Hope and Healing Across Generations," proclaims the responsibility all share for the well-being of all children, but especially for those who struggle with alcohol or drug addiction in their families. NACoA envisions a society in which these vulnerable children have access to adults who can help them and are encouraged to seek help.

Join the concerted effort to foster public dialogue about the best ways to help children living with family addiction.

Children's Program Kit...

The SAMHSA/CSAP Children's Program Kit gives treatment providers and others the benefits of years of research and hands-on experience by NACoA and others in helping COAs and their families. This valuable resource is for treatment providers and prevention centers that aim to help children make sense of what they've been experiencing, cope with the stresses of their families' problems, and strengthen their potential for resilience.

• Watch a promotional video about the Kit
• About the Children's Program Kit
• View the Webcast, "Offering Hope, Recovery and Resilience to Children of Addicted Parents: The Children's Program Kit."

Campaign Publications

• It's Not Your Fault (PDF)
• You Can Help (PDF)
• Poster: I Was Afraid to Take a Friend Home After School (PDF)
• Poster: Think Again (PDF)

Related Publications

• CADCA Strategizer 26: Coalitions Address Children of Alcoholics
• Children of Alcoholics: Important Facts
• CSAP Resource Guide: Children of Alcoholics
• If Someone Close to You Has a Problem With Alcohol or Drugs
• Alcoholism Tends to Run in Families
• Remember the Seven Cs

Multimedia

• Holiday Time is Difficult for Children of Alcoholics or Drug Using Parents
  Emily, a woman raised in an addicted home, talks about the loneliness, anxiety, and isolation of the holiday season for children of alcohol- and drug-dependent parents. View video
• What She Would Say to Other Children of Alcoholics or Drug Using Parents
  It's not your fault! An adult child of alcoholics offers advice and support to children struggling with a parents' addiction, and talks about the importance of talking about the problem with a trusted adult. View video

More Information

For more information, contact NACoA at 1-888-554-COAS, or visit their Web site at www.nacoa.org.

• "It's Over" by James F.
• Children of Alcoholics: Important Facts
• Facts 4 You
• Alcoholism Tends to Run in Families
• To Walk With One Child