National Association for Children of Addiction

10/26/2026

This Red Ribbon Week, let’s pair prevention messages with meaningful support. ❤️

Children affected by familial substance use deserve age-appropriate information, opportunities to build coping skills, and caring adults they can turn to.

NACoA helps professionals, organizations, and communities prepare to respond through training, practical tools, and programs for children and families.

Be prepared to help. Reach more children.

Connect with NACoA at nacoa.org.

10/26/2026

Be the adult a child can count on. 💙

Listen without judgment.
Make space for feelings.
Keep showing up.

And be prepared to help. NACoA offers training, practical tools, and guidance so caring adults can recognize children affected by familial substance use and respond with understanding.

Contact NACoA to learn how you, your organization, or your community can reach more children with the support they deserve.

Visit nacoa.org to connect.

10/25/2026

Family recovery includes the children. 💙

Faith communities can walk alongside families by offering a welcoming place to connect, ask for help, and find steady encouragement. Children deserve that same care, with space for their own feelings, questions, and healing.

NACoA’s Faith Leaders Institute equips faith leaders, faith communities, and faith organizations with training and practical tools to support children and families affected by familial substance use.

Walk alongside families. Make room for children.

Learn more at nacoa.org.

10/25/2026

Today, let’s make room for children whose families are affected by substance use. Room for their questions, their feelings, and the support they deserve. 💙

NACoA’s Faith Leaders Institute equips faith leaders, faith communities, and faith organizations with training and practical tools to recognize these children’s needs and respond with understanding.

A welcoming community can be a place where a child feels seen, heard, and supported.

Learn more at nacoa.org.

10/24/2026

Amazing people.
Meaningful work.
A shared commitment to children. 💙

NACoA was honored to provide Children’s Program Kit training in Cherokee, NC, with wonderful participants from IHS, Unity Healing Center, and Cherokee Choices.

These dedicated folks are preparing to lead groups for children impacted by addiction in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians community - creating spaces where children can feel seen, heard, and supported.

Thank you for welcoming us and for the heart and hope you bring to children and families. We’re grateful to be part of this work alongside you!

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Cherokee Choices Peggy McGillicuddy Stacee Read

10/22/2026

Training Day 1: The learning happening in this room will reach children beyond it. 💙

NACoA is in Cherokee, North Carolina, providing Children’s Program Kit training for participants who will lead groups for children affected by addiction on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians reservation.

We’re grateful for their commitment to creating spaces where children can ask questions, share feelings, learn coping skills, and simply enjoy being children.

Stacee Read Peggy McGillicuddy

10/22/2026

A beautiful setting for meaningful work. 🍂💙

NACoA’s Co-Executive Directors, joined by one of our contractors, are in North Carolina, providing training on the Children’s Program Kit and Celebrating Families!

We’re grateful for the opportunity to share and collaborate with people committed to supporting children and families affected by familial substance use.

Building connections, sharing tools, and bringing hope into the work, together.

10/20/2026

Children know more than we think. They notice changes in behavior, feel the tension at home, and often have questions they don’t know how to ask. 💙

When addiction affects a family, silence doesn’t protect children. It can leave them feeling confused, scared, and alone.

Talking openly and honestly, in ways children can understand, can make a difference.

We don’t have to have all the answers. But we can listen, create safe spaces for questions, and help children understand three important things:

💙 They didn’t cause it.
💙 They can’t control it.
💙 They can’t cure it.

And most importantly, they are not alone.

At NACoA, we help professionals, families, and caring adults learn how to recognize and support children affected by a parent or caregiver’s substance use.

Because children deserve answers, understanding, and hope, too.

Learn more at nacoa.org

10/19/2026

Happy 6th Anniversary to Hickman Holler Appalachian Relief ! 🖤🌄 The compassion, generosity, and commitment to preserving the beauty, culture, and communities of Appalachia are truly inspiring. We are gratefull for the opportunity to help children affected by addiction in their homes in appalachia and Indian country. We appreciate your partnership. Thank you for making such a meaningful difference in the lives of people, the land, and the wildlife that make this region so special. Here’s to continuing the good work and creating a brighter future for generations to come! 🖤

Today, Hickman Holler Appalachian Relief Fund officially turns six years old 🖤

This fund is the product of countless people’s generosity, care, and drive. Without them - without YOU - there simply would be no Hickman Holler. Because of you, we have been able to reach some incredible achievements - achievements that not only belong to us, but to you as well.

It is with your support, your generosity, and your care that any of this is possible, and we hope to never forget that.

The Appalachian Mountains, her peaks and her valleys, form a thread that connects us to each other. To nature, to the Earth, to home. It is this connection that ties us together - this connection that drives us to continue working towards a brighter future for all of us. We thank you for joining us on this journey.

In the past six years, we have been able to do so much. Your generosity has touched so many lives, from the tallest of trees in Red River Gorge to the smallest of salamanders in Dolly Sods, and everything in between.

We’d like to take a moment to highlight our grantees, who are doing the hard work and carrying us all forward.

Kentucky River Community Care Inc
Boys & Girls Club of Glasgow-Barren Co
Boys & Girls Clubs of Appalachia
Grow Ohio Valley
Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies
Robert C. Byrd Choir Boosters
Beattyville Main Street
GreenHouse17
Pikeville Pride
Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership
FoodChain Lexington
CPESN Kentucky Inc.
Organic Association of Kentucky
Farms Work Wonders
Feeding Kentucky
Appalachia Service Project
Americans Helping Americans
Appalachian Voices
Kentucky Waterways Alliance
Appalachian Sustainable Development
Berry Center
Hope's Wings
Community Response Coalition of Kentucky
Southeastern Kentucky Association of Native People
Grow Appalachia at Berea College
Mission Mules
Appalachian Outreach Inc.
McDowell County Water Crisis Campaign at Cross Roads United Methodist Church
Appalshop
Cowan Community Action Group
Morehead Gateway Helping Hands
Tennessee Justice Center
Coalfield Development
Accelerating Appalachia
Resolve KY Inc
Kosair For Kids/ Kosair Charities Commitee, Inc.
Domestic Violence Emergency Services of Gateway Inc.
Norton Children's Hospital
Music Heals International
National Association for Children of Addiction
Kentucky Children's Hospital Philanthropy
Community Agricultural and Nutritional Enterprises Inc
Family Connection, Inc.
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc.
The Hickman Holler Appalachian Endowed College Fund
East Tennessee Foundation
Nashville Public Radio
Legal Aid of the Bluegrass
One Generation Away
Federated Charities
CASA of the Wilderness Trail
Head Count Inc.
Native American House Alliance
Kentucky Heartwood
Native American Indian Assn of Tennessee
Automotive Free Clinic
Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance
Berry Center
Eluna Network
Newport Festivals Foundation
Aspire Appalachia
Hemphill Community Center Inc.
HOMES, Inc.
Kentucky Educational Development Corporation
Appalachian Citizens' Law Center
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc.
Stronghearts Native Helpline
Lee Initiative Inc
United Way of Kentucky
Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc
Appalachian Prison Book Project Inc
ACLU of Kentucky Foundation Inc.
Louisville Urban League

Each of these organizations is uplifting our region in irreplaceable, important, and caring ways. Whether that be helping to supply basic needs or advocating for justice, these organizations are the real heroes.

These past six years have been an incredible whirlwind of things we never thought possible. Everyday, we somehow become more grateful than the last that we have you all to support us. What a privilege it is to have this community and these opportunities.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for the last six years. We can’t wait to see what the next six bring us.

📸: Tricia Taylor

10/19/2026

NACoA is headed east today!

Both our Co-Executive Directors, Peggy McGillicuddy and Stacee Read, are traveling to provide training on the Children’s Program Kit and Celebrating Families!

We’re looking forward to connecting with those bringing these programs to children and families affected by familial substance use. Together, we’re building understanding, strengthening connections, and creating opportunities for hope and healing.