Help and Hope Book Series

Announcing our third book Help and Hope: From Families who have Walked the Walk: Second Edition!

Voice and Vision is pleased to announce the first chapter of the second edition of Help and Hope: From Families who have Walked the Walk: Advocating for and Supporting your Family Member. This first chapter contains 15 essential tips for advocating and four stories from families with lived experience supporting their loved one. Peppered throughout the chapter are resources for readers to explore these concepts in more detail as well as an ample resource directory at the conclusion of the chapter. Further, this chapter has special material for grandparents raising grandchildren, a growing trend in Pennsylvania due to mental health and substance use diagnoses across the Commonwealth. 

Advocating for and Supporting your Family Member can be accessed for free by clicking HERE.

The second book in our series: Help and Hope: From Families who have Walked the Walk, Substance Use: The Growing Need to Know provides the reader with a foundational understanding of substance use and addiction.

Guest authors from the “front lines” of the fight provide information about prevention, treatment, and recovery supports.

Those with first-hand experience with substance use and addiction share their engaging, emotionally- compelling testimonies. 

Please consider a donation to Voice and Vision, Inc. as you download a copy of Help and Hope: From Families who have Walked the Walk. All donations help us offset the cost of the development of the book series. Click here to donate.

Please contact Karen Plummer at 215-442-1599 with any questions.

Voice and Vision has distributed 5000 copies of our first book!

Being a family with a loved one who has challenges is difficult. We have heard many times: “if only I knew then what I know now.” This book—written by families for families— shares what we ‘know now’ in the hope that we can help you navigate services, identify resources, and establish the right supports for you and your family. In Help and Hope, you will find information, helpful suggestions, and accounts from families reflecting upon their own journeys. Help and Hope puts the wisdom of decades of family experiences into your hands.  

New copies of this book are no longer available, but you might find copies in the community.

“The Voice & Vision Resource book is a masterpiece…and I don’t use that term lightly! The format, attention to detail, variety of subjects, careful organization, personal accounts, and thoroughness of topics, etc., etc., are so well coordinated and completed! In a way, it reads like a novel, but in so many distinctive ways, it is an essential resource, which, I predict, will outlive many previous (and future) attempts at such a gathering. Well done! Best of future experiences going forward.”

“First –let me say I LOVE the book. I have been reading it & learning things I didn’t know after 12 years at the job!!! So thank you for doing this.”

“I wanted to let you know that the books we purchased are really helping our staff in connecting families to needed services as well as helping families”

“Thank you for putting this entire book together–it is FABULOUS, and I cannot stop talking about it”.

“ I received a copy of Help and Hope at a teen brain injury support group last night. I haven’t been able to put it down! What a great resource.”