Voice of the Recovery Community Award
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) is the recipient of The Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award!
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Rally for Recovery! 2008
Start planning your 2008 Rally for Recovery! event. This year's Rally for Recovery will take place on September 20, 2008! Learn more...
Campaigns: Recovery Voices Count
- Download a pdf version of the full Recovery Voices Count Guide
- Candidate Pledge and Questions – Call to Action
- PowerPoint presentation on Recovery Voices Count
- Videos from New Hampshire Presidential Townhall Meeting
- Accounts of advocates taking action!
- December 2nd New Hampshire Presidential Town Hall Meeting
- Order lapel stickers for your Recovery Voices Count event!
- Other resources
Recovery Voices Count
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Growing numbers of recovery community organizations and recovery advocates across the country are getting involved in nonpartisan voting activities so that their voices can be heard in the local, state and national arenas. They are conducting voter registration and Get-Out-the-Vote activities, sponsoring candidate forums and getting candidates for political office on record about critical policies that will make recovery a reality for even more Americans.
Recovery Voices Count is one part of our national movement to make it possible for even more of our friends, neighbors and family members to experience long-term recovery from addiction by building recognition of the recovery community as a constituency of consequence. As recovery community organizations and recovery advocates register voters, educate candidates for public office about key issues and turn out voters in growing numbers, we will have an even greater impact on the lives of people who still need help with their addiction, people in long-term recovery, their family members and communities.
With less than half of eligible Americans voting, Recovery Voices Count is a great way to help people take the first step in civic participation and build your recovery community organization. Every individual eligible to vote needs to be encouraged to register to vote and, if already registered, encouraged to vote.
One policy issue that is very important to the recovery community is restoring the right of people with criminal convictions to vote. More than five million Americans are barred from the polls because of these restrictions. Many of these disenfranchised people have experience with addiction and face lifetime bans on participating in our civic life as voters. Recovery community organizations around the country are working in coalition with allied organizations to right this wrong. To find out more about this issue and how you can get involved in these efforts, take a look at our Webinar on Restoring Voting Rights to People with Drug Convictions.
Join us in reaching out and organizing the recovery community to participate in our electoral process. To assist in your Recovery Community Civic Engagement Campaign, Faces & Voices has buttons that say “We Recover and We Vote,” “I’m in Recovery and I Vote” and a bumper sticker that says “Another Voter for Recovery!”
Join us in making Recovery Voices Count!
2008 Recovery Voices Count: A Guide to Non-Partisan Civic Engagement
Call to Action
Sample Sign to Promote Event (A-4)
Sample Registration Table Sign (A-6)
Voter Registration Sign-Up (A-7)
Sample Questions to Ask Candidates (B)
Sample Get-Out-the-Vote Telephone Script (C)
Recovery Voices Count - Other Resources
health08.org. To learn more information about healthcare and the 2008 presidential campaign visit www.health08.org, which features analysis of health policy issues, regular public opinion surveys, and news and video coverage from the campaign trail.
The Sentencing Project's 2008 Presidential Candidates’ Platforms on Criminal Justice, published in March 2008, provides information on a range of key criminal justice issues, including sentencing policy, reentry, felony disenfranchisement, and the death penalty.
Recovery Voices Count is made possible with the support of an unrestricted grant from Reckitt Benckiser and the members of Faces & Voices of Recovery.