FREE extensive resource guide:  https://www.takingtheescalator.com/

Addiction Severity Index:  https://www.asi-mvconnect.com/uploadedFiles/Public/Worksheets_and_Forms/ASIMVWorksheet.pdf

FREE extensive collection of resources for mental health, wellness, and personal development:  https://mindremakeproject.org/resources/

FREE – The Centre for Clinical Interventions has produced resources for clients and healthcare professionals to assist in providing interventions for mental health problems such as depression, bipolar, social anxiety, panic, self-esteem, procrastination, perfectionism, and eating disorders:  https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Overview

FREE extensive collection for clinicians – specific tools, information, activities, workbooks, etc:  https://www.takingtheescalator.com/mental-health-toolsharing

FREE therapy worksheets and resources created exclusively for kids and teens to help work through issues related to anger, anxiety, bullying, social skills, and more:  https://www.mylemarks.com/store/c36/FREE_DOWNLOADS.html

Free screening tools for assessing relationship satisfaction/expectations, attachment styles, communication, domestic violence, sex addiction, and more.  

https://mindremakeproject.org/2020/01/18/marriage-relationship-assessment-tools/

A list of sites with a variety of assessment tools for mental health related issues, including mood disorders, relationship attachment styles, suicide risk, communication skills, etc. including both self-assessments and screening tools for clinicians to administer and score.  

https://mindremakeproject.org/2018/07/21/free-online-assessment-and-screening-tools-for-mental-health/

Substance abuse screening tools free for download and use.  

https://www.takingtheescalator.com/substance-use-assessments

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ 9) – A multipurpose instrument for screening, diagnosing, monitoring, and measuring the severity of depression.  

https://med.stanford.edu/fastlab/research/imapp/msrs/_jcr_content/main/accordion/accordion_content3/download_256324296/file.res/PHQ9%20id%20date%2008.03.pdf

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) – The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a self­-administered 21­item self-­report scale, presented in multiple choice format, designed to detect presence of depression in adolescents and adults, and to measure characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression independent of any particular theoretical bias. 

http://www.januszlipowski.com/Psychology/Depression/Beck_Depression_Inventory.pdf

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD 7) – An easy to perform initial screening tool for generalized anxiety disorder. 

https://adaa.org/sites/default/files/GAD-7_Anxiety-updated_0.pdf

Adverse Childhood Expereinces (ACE) and Resilience Score – There are 10 types of childhood trauma measured in the ACE Study. Five are personal – physical abuse, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect. Five are related to other family members: a parent who’s an alcoholic, a mother who’s a victim of domestic violence, a family member in jail, a family member diagnosed with a mental illness, and the disappearance of a parent through divorce, death or abandonment. 

https://www.acesconnection.com/blog/got-your-ace-resilience-scores

Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) – Clinician-administered scale, has become the most widely used rating scale for OCD. The Y–BOCS is designed to rate symptom severity, not to establish a diagnosis.

https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Assessment-Tools.pdf

An extensive list of support groups for all forms of recovery:

https://mindremakeproject.org/2019/04/13/support-groups-for-recovery/

Alcoholics Anonymous: https://aa-intergroup.org/

Narcotics Anonymous:  https://www.na.org/?ID=virtual_meetings

Cocaine Anonymous: https://www.ca-online.org/

Heroin Anonymous: http://heroinanonymous.org/covid-19/

Marijuana Anonymous: https://ma-online.org/ 

Crystal Meth Anonymous: https://crystalmeth.org/cma-meetings/online-cma-meetings.html

Celebrate Recovery: offers Christ-centered resources and guidance for recovery:   https://www.celebraterecovery.com/

Reddit Recovery: Offers a virtual hang out and support during recovery: https://www.reddit.com/r/REDDITORSINRECOVERY/

Refuge Recovery: Provides online and virtual support:  http://bit.ly/refugerecovery1

SMART Recovery (Self-Management and Recovery Training): Offers global community of mutual-support groups, forums including a chatroom and message board:  https://www.smartrecovery.org/community/

Sober City: Offers an online support and recovery community:  https://www.soberocity.com/

Sobergrid: Offers an online platform to help anyone get sober and stay sober: https://www.sobergrid.com/

Soberistas: Provides a women-only international online recovery community: https://soberistas.com/

Sober Recovery: Provides an online forum for those in recovery and their friends and: https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/

In The Rooms: offers variety of different 12-step and spiritual meetings: https://www.intherooms.com/home/

Heroes in Recovery: Recovery stories and topical blogs by and for people in recovery from mental health and substance use disorder:  https://heroesinrecovery.com/

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation contains online support meetings, blogs, mobile apps, social media groups, and movie suggestions, including the online support community, The Daily Pledge:  https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery%20/tools/daily-pledge

Life Ring Secular Recovery: offers online support:  https://www.lifering.org/online-meetings

We Connect Recovery: Provides daily online recovery groups for those with substance use and mental illness:  https://www.weconnectrecovery.com/freeonline-support-meetings

Unity Recovery + WEconnect + Alano Club: Providing daily virtual meeting for those in recovery and for their family members:  https://unityrecovery.org/digital-recoverymeetings

Lion Rock: offers online 12-step meetings and support groups: https://www.lionrockrecovery.com/online-aa-meetings-and-support-groups

12-Step: offers online meetings using different means of communications like text-only chat, voice or video:  https://www.12step.org/social/online-meetings/

Al-Anon Electronic Meetings – for family members who have a loved one in addiction. A forum and recovery chat room that features voice chat, Skype, and text chat meetings connecting people from around the world:  https://al-anon.org/al-anon-meetings/electronic-meetings/

Adult Children of Alcoholics – Phone and Online Meetings:  https://adultchildren.org/quick-search/?audiobt=Click+Here

Bridge Club Virtual Meetings – Meetings that are specifically focused on women and LGBTQIA+ folks who are sober or interested in sobriety:  https://www.jointempest.co/bridge-club-events?tag=Virtual%20Events.

Families Anonymous Virtual Meetings – Online meetings for parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, significant others, other family members, and friends of those with a current, suspected or former drug/alcohol problem:  https://www.familiesanonymous.org/meetings/virtual-meetings

The Temper– An online publication/site that explores life through the lens of sobriety, addiction, and recovery. Includes links to resources:  https://www.thetemper.com/online-recovery-meetings-groups/

My Recovery Online 12-step meetings:  https://www.myrecovery.com/online-meeting/

XA Speakers: Various 12-step fellowship speaker recordings:  https://www.xa-speakers.org/

Alcoholics Anonymous: speaker recordings:  https://www.aaspeaker.com/

Harbor Area Alcoholics Anonymous: speaker recordings:  https://hacoaa.org/archives/speakers/

Recovery Audio: Various speaker recordings including specialty meeting topics; eg, LGBTQ, AA, NA, Spirituality, etc:  https://www.recoveryaudio.org/

Apps for speaker recording downloads:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aa-speaker-tapes/id1335643834

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aa-speaker-tapes-12-steps/id1018096090

YouTube video speaker recordings:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuSJRom1_4kDdltaeRpKRNghKMCjhYceZ

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuSJRom1_4kBEKIuDwW5OS4_BlLUAv4Q3

Alcoholics Anonymous – video and audio: https://www.aa.org/

Narcotics Anonymous – literature and audio: https://www.na.org/

Just For Today – daily meditation: https://jftna.org/jft/

NA Speakers – Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marnistek.naspeakers&hl=en_US

12 Steps AA Companion – Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.deanhuff.companion&hl=en_US

AA Big Book Ultimate Companion – Apple app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aa-big-book-ultimate-companion/id998807519?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

AA Audio Companion for Alcoholics Anonymous – Apple app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aa-audio-companion-for-alcoholics-anonymous/id1191023628?mt=8

12 Step Toolkit – Android & Apple app – https://www.12steptoolkit.com/

CDC Support for Stress and Anxiety: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/managing-stress-anxiety.html

The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Help Line Coronavirus Information and Resources Guide: http://bit.ly/NAMIresource

World Health Organization – accessible evidence based resources: https://www.afro.who.int/news/who-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-resources-and-information  

Heroes in Recovery: Recovery stories and topical blogs by and for people in recovery from mental health and substance use disorder: https://heroesinrecovery.com/

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Toll-Free (English): 1-800-273-TALK (8255) 

Toll-Free (español): 1-888-628-9454 

TTY: 1-800-799-4TTY (4889) 

Website (English): http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

Website (Español): http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/gethelp/spanish.aspx

SAMHSA’s Disaster Distress Helpline Toll-Free: 1-800-985-5990 (English and Español) 

SMS: Text “TalkWithUs” to 66746 SMS (Español): “Hablanos” al 66746 

TTY: 1-800-846-8517 

Website (English): http://www.disasterdistress.samhsa.gov 

Website (Español): HTTP://WWW.DISASTERDISTRESS.SAMHSA.GOV/espanol.aspx

SAMHSA’s National Helpline Toll-Free: 1-800-662-HELP (24/7/365 Treatment Referral Information Service in English and Español) 

Website: http://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/nationalhelpline

SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center

Toll-Free:1-800-308-3515 

Email: DTAC@samhsa.hhs.gov 

Website: http://www.samhsa.gov/dtac

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