Sharon Young presented at the North Carolina Recovery Conference November 14, 2014 in Clemmons NC a presentation entitled "The Power of Family Integration & Natural Supports: Creating & Educating Recovery Teams". The background and reason for developing such a program was born out of CooperRiis in their bi-annual family education weekends & informal staff support that they were offering to families. The families loved it and then they began to ask for more. The research done at Cooper Riis indicated that family education like this below improved the long-term outcomes of treatment for those that they provide care for.