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TLAP Volunteers

TLAP’s success in reaching the impaired attorney is, of course, not possible without the dedication and commitment of the TLAP volunteers and the participation of members of various lawyer support groups, which continue to thrive and hold meetings in cities across the state.   TLAP volunteers give their time, energy, empathy, hope, and compassion to reach out to lawyers in need. TLAP supports its volunteers by providing training individually throughout the year and during the Texas Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers Convention held every year in early June.  

Additional Resources for TLAP Volunteers

Advocacy with Anonymity , Voices of Recovery

Are You in Recovery from Alcohol or Drug Problems? Know Your Rights , U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Terence Gorski’s 37 Signs of Relapse

Bibliography – Interventions

Most Recent TLAP Volunteer E-Newsletter

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The next TLCL Convention is in Dallas from June 1-3, 2007 at the Radisson Hotel-Central Dallas.

Want to Volunteer with TLAP?

Are you a lawyer, judge or law student who has:

• Personal recovery from alcohol and drug use, or
• Personal recovery from depression or other mood disorders, or
• Training, education and/or experience with substance use disorders or mental health issues, suicide prevention or survivor issues, or crisis counseling and debriefing?
• A sincere interest in helping other lawyers, judges or law students?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, we invite you to join our team of volunteers.

Why volunteer?

In addition to drug and alcohol dependency, depression and other mental health issues are more prevalent than ever among lawyers.  Imagine how much easier your own road to recovery could have been if a lawyer of the same gender, practice experience and similar personal struggles as your own had reached out to you.  Or, maybe you had a friend who was able to share his/her own experience and listened to yours and served as evidence that there was a light at the end of the tunnel.  Why not pay something forward or give something back?  There is no greater gift than to be the voice of hope for someone else.

TLAP volunteers are dedicated men and women who are willing to be peer support for lawyers, judges or law students in crisis from alcohol or drug use ­or mental health issues such as clinical depression and bi-polar, anxiety and panic disorders.  As a TLAP volunteer, you may be asked to share your personal experience, strength and hope with another who is challenged by these same issues that you once faced.  You may also be helpful in a variety of other ways to act as peer support for another lawyer and help in getting him/her to professional resources available in your local community.

If you would like to be a TLAP volunteer, please call us at 800-343-8527!