No matter what type of treatment center one has the need to have a comprehensive, thought provoking and challenging program for family and friends is imperative. This lively interactive program will illuminate evidenced based factors that go into building a top-notch Family Program. These include Administrative Costs - Delivery issues -how will you deliver services-length and the depth of engagement. Clarity of expectations, Assumptions about what a family program is or is not, desired outcomes (Building Resilience, Change Agreements, General Education, Therapy) and the curriculum, didactic, experiential, etc. as well as the development of Family Alumni groups, Case examples are used so that state of the art programming is created