Families in Recovery

The Family Alcoholism Survey has been online for nearly two months now. Amazingly enough, responses are still coming in. It appears that many of those who responded to the survey have sent it along to others. As more and more people both take the survey, and forward it along, we get increasingly better information to use when planning our programs.

I don't want to spoil anything by releasing results early, but so far, the responses are fascinating and very telling...potentially. But we need more people to take the survey. We are willing to keep the survey open for a good deal longer if we keep getting new respondents. Every new respondent makes the survey that much more powerful and important.

One of the primary goals of Families in Recovery is to get people throughout the community to start thinking about, and talking about, family alcoholism. The survey is one of the ways we plan to start this conversation. But without enough respondents, we are limited in what we can say. Without enough respondents, we can only take the conversation so far.

That is where you come in. If you've already taken the survey, thanks! If you haven't taken the survey, please do so. The URL is below. If you've already forwarded the survey to others, thanks again! Can you think of anyone else? Can you ask others to forward the survey as well? If you've not sent the survey along yet, please consider doing so.

We know that family alcoholism is not something many of us talk about. In fact, we know that talking about family alcoholism is the exact opposite of what most people tend to do.

That is why this is so important.

By helping us to engage the larger community, you are helping to build an organization that will make a difference to the nearly one-hundred thousand families in our area that are coping, or have coped, with family alcoholism.

The family alcoholism survey is located at http://www.familiesinrecovery.org/survey