Joyce Eckman

Family Support Facilitator

Joyce is a Family Support Facilitator and facilitates weekly CRAFT Family Support groups along with individual and family phone coaching. Her own experience with the addiction world began in 2011. Being the mother of a child struggling with a substance use disorder is nothing that any school could ever teach or prepare you for. Like so many families who suffer in that darkness and horror, Joyce searched for some sort of relief from the insanity, pain, and hopelessness. Nothing brought any real comfort or felt right to her until she found USARA at the premier showing of ‘The Anonymous People’ in 2013.

Through attending CRAFT Family Support meetings, she learned to encourage her son by changing their communication from “confrontation” into “conversation” and that it was finally okay to love him right where he was! Less than a year later, he began his recovery journey and she continued to attend and facilitate weekly CRAFT Family Support Meetings.

In 2019, Joyce received the Utah Honors Recovery Ambassador Award in recognition of her contribution to helping families learn the very skills and tools she continues to use every day. She shares hope with every mother, father, spouse, child, sibling, and friend who loves someone suffering from substance use disorder.

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