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CARES Community CARES is a safe space for families and caregivers to understand addiction, recovery, and communication.

We combine expert guidance, lived experience, and real tools to help you heal and grow alongside your loved one not apart from them.

10/01/2026

We’ve been working on something new at CARES, and we’re getting closer to sharing it with you. 🎙️

Introducing the CARES Podcast, hosted by Rene Gaitan — conversations created for families, caregivers, and anyone trying to better understand addiction, substance use disorder, and recovery.

Through conversations with addiction professionals, recovery advocates, and people with lived experience, we’ll explore the topics families face every day: healthy boundaries, enabling, treatment and recovery, family relationships, communication, and how to support a loved one struggling with addiction without losing yourself in the process.

Our goal is simple: to make trusted addiction education, family addiction support, and recovery resources easier to access and to remind families affected by addiction that they deserve information, connection, and support too.

The CARES Podcast is coming soon. 💙

Follow CARES for upcoming episodes, guest announcements, addiction recovery resources, and practical conversations for families supporting a loved one through addiction and recovery.

| addiction | addiction support | recovery | family healing | podcast

Something new is coming to CARES. 🎙️Beginning Monday, September 14, CARES is bringing weekly conversations to families n...
09/08/2026

Something new is coming to CARES. 🎙️

Beginning Monday, September 14, CARES is bringing weekly conversations to families navigating addiction, substance use, and recovery.

Our first conversation features Drew Dutton, President & CEO of Phoenix House Texas, sharing practical addiction education and insight for families trying to better understand substance use and recovery.

CARES provides addiction support for families in Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, and the Texas Hill Country through expert conversations, education, family recovery resources, and community support.

New conversations every Monday. 💙

| addiction support | al anon | alcohol anonymous | drug abuse

Happy Labor Day from CARES. 💙Today we’re honoring the people who work hard to strengthen families and communities every ...
09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day from CARES. 💙

Today we’re honoring the people who work hard to strengthen families and communities every day.

CARES provides addiction support for families in Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, and the Texas Hill Country through education, expert conversations, and practical recovery resources.

Wishing you a safe and restful Labor Day.

Today, on International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember every life lost to overdose and every family forever changed...
08/31/2026

Today, on International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember every life lost to overdose and every family forever changed by addiction.

Overdose impacts more than one person. Parents, spouses, siblings, children, and loved ones are left navigating grief, fear, substance use disorder, and the complicated road of loving someone through addiction and recovery.

At CARES, families can access free addiction education, family recovery resources, expert conversations, and support in Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, and the Texas Hill Country.

Today we remember. We reduce stigma. We keep talking. And we remind families that support is here.

l alcoholism | substance abuse

Fear can make loving someone with addiction feel like a constant series of impossible decisions.But supporting someone w...
08/20/2026

Fear can make loving someone with addiction feel like a constant series of impossible decisions.

But supporting someone with substance use disorder doesn’t mean carrying their recovery. You can love them, set healthy boundaries, and protect your own well-being at the same time.

CARES provides free addiction support and family recovery resources in Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, and the Texas Hill Country.

Learn more through the link in our bio.

For families affected by addiction, fear can start shaping almost every decision: Do I answer the phone? Do I give them ...
08/20/2026

For families affected by addiction, fear can start shaping almost every decision: Do I answer the phone? Do I give them money? Am I enabling them? Should I set a boundary? What if they don’t choose treatment?

There isn’t always an easy answer. But supporting a loved one with substance use disorder doesn’t mean taking responsibility for their recovery.

You can set healthy boundaries.
You can stop rescuing.
You can protect your own well-being.
And you can still love them deeply.

CARES provides free addiction support for families in Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, and the Texas Hill Country through addiction education, expert conversations, lived experience, and family recovery resources.

You don’t have to navigate your loved one’s addiction alone.

Free family support + resources through the link in our bio.

08/18/2026

Fear of the next phone call. Fear of setting a boundary. Fear that helping less means loving less. Fear of what happens if they don’t choose recovery.

But supporting a loved one with substance use disorder doesn’t have to mean making every decision from fear.

Love can look like compassion and boundaries. Support and accountability. Staying connected without trying to control their recovery.

For families navigating addiction in Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, and the Texas Hill Country, CARES provides free addiction education, family recovery resources, and conversations with professionals and people who have lived it.

You can love someone deeply without letting fear lead the way.

08/17/2026

The person you love is still here, but things feel different.

Their personality may have changed. Your relationship may have changed. The future you pictured with them may feel uncertain.

And you may find yourself thinking, “I just want my person back.”

That grief is real and families need space to understand what they’re experiencing, too.

At CARES, we create space for these conversations through education, expert insight, lived experience, and free resources for families navigating a loved one’s addiction.

You deserve support through this, too.

Addiction can make an entire family feel like they’re living in survival mode.Trying to help without enabling. Setting b...
08/13/2026

Addiction can make an entire family feel like they’re living in survival mode.

Trying to help without enabling. Setting boundaries without feeling guilty. Wondering what to say, what not to say, and whether you’re doing any of it right.

CARES exists for that part of addiction, the part families are left trying to navigate.

Through free education, trusted addiction resources, expert conversations, and lived experience, we help families find more clarity in what can feel incredibly complicated.

CARES support is completely free.

Learn more through the link in our bio.

08/11/2026

When someone you love is struggling with addiction, who is helping you through it?

So much of the focus is understandably placed on the person struggling with substance use. But addiction affects the entire family, and the people who love them need support, education, and resources too.

That’s where CARES is different.

We bring together addiction experts, mental health professionals, recovery leaders, and families with lived experience to help you understand addiction, navigate difficult relationships, set healthier boundaries, and protect your own well-being while supporting someone you love.

And CARES support and resources are completely free.

If you’re looking for addiction support for families in Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, or the Texas Hill Country, there is a place for you here.

Learn more and access free family addiction resources through the link in our bio.

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