PARENTS OF ADDICTED LOVED ONES

Public Awareness - Parents often, due to feelings of shame, do not reach out to family or friends to share or seek help with the challenges they are experiencing related to their loved one suffering through addiction. Raising awareness of these free support meetings is critical to parents finding this resource that will help them develop new approaches to helping and in their relationship with their loved one. Most outreach activities including social media and online advertising, printing and distributing pamphlets and other printed materials, and contractors performing outreach to entities (health, public safety, treatment and other professionals) are funded through grants.

Meetings -Volunteer facilitators offering meetings require signage, meeting materials such as lessons, videos, books and reference materials to offer the meetings. Meeting rooms are sought free of charge. Meeting expenses include purchasing, designing, preparing, printing as well as shipping materials to new and existing meetings and insurance. At the end of 2022, there were ### local in-person meetings, # national online meetings including one in Spanish, and ## local online meetings throughout the United States. People from all States and several countries outside the U.S. access PAL meetings and online materials.