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Recovery Voices Count 2010
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What is the 2010 Recovery Voices Count campaign?
Faces & Voices launched the Recovery Voices Count campaign in 2008 to expand ongoing efforts to help state recovery community organizations build a permanent advocacy and voter engagement infrastructure. Building local expertise around nonpartisan civic engagement is one way to increase awareness of the recovery community as a political constituency and to help people who still need help with addiction.
Recovery Voices Count engages people in long term recovery, their family members, and their allies in volunteer activities that help build community strength and organizational capacity to ensure that the voice and values of the recovery community is heard in the local, state, and national elections. The campaign supports and encourages several activities including voter registration, voter education, and voter turnout. Over the course of the Recovery Voices Count campaign, volunteers organize efforts such as registering voters at Rally for Recovery! and producing voter guides on candidates’ positions. One of the most important activities is getting public officials on record about the issues that are important to the recovery community and then making sure people show up to vote on Election Day.
This year, the 2010 elections have the potential to determine the political landscape for the next decade. For those who accept the challenge, the goal is simple…to build a constituency of consequence one voter at a time. In addition to our national effort, Faces & Voices is working intensively in 12 states on the Recovery Voices Count campaign. Click here for a list of the states and the lead organization in each state.
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!
Meet Naomi Long
Naomi comes to the Recovery Voices Count Campaign from a diverse background in community organizing, issue advocacy, and training. After finishing college in Memphis, TN, she trained with the Gamaliel Foundation and was hired as a community organizer for the Racine Interfaith Coalition. In many regards it was a baptism by fire, where she learned quickly how complex it can be to organize winning campaigns on issues such as immigrant rights, education funding, and criminal justice reform.
In 2003 Naomi moved to Washington, D.C. and worked in a variety of roles including campaign coordinator, lobbyist, and youth leadership development coach. She served for five years as a project director at the Drug Policy Alliance where she helped organize the DC Recovery Community Alliance, a recovery community organization focused on advocacy and outreach in the Washington, D.C. metro area. She also served as the first national coordinator for the Campaign to End AIDS, a diverse coalition of people living with HIV and AIDS and their allies.
Recently, Long decided to bridge her passions for community organizing and leadership development with her sense of humor by becoming an independent consultant. Through her company, En C. Elle Consulting, she trains and organizes with Wellstone Action!, the Center for Progressive Leadership,the DC Jail Advocacy Project of University Legal Services, and Faces & Voices of Recovery.