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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 work to build a powerful advocacy movement of people in recovery, their family members, friends, and allies by supporting nonpartisan civic engagement in local, state, and national elections.
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. In 2010 twelve recovery community organizations from across the country participated in the Recovery Voices Count campaign. Read more about their work and accomplishments here.
Why Nonpartisan Civic Engagement?
The goal is simple: to support recovery community organizations and their communities in developing and sustaining a constituency of consequence—an organized voice of people in recovery who are educated on key issues, vote on Election Day, and hold elected officials accountable long after the polls close. Our work is nonpartisan, meaning not associated with any one particular political party, because our mission is to build a movement of people in recovery based on the issues that matter to the community, regardless of which party supports them.
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.
You can join us in reaching out and organizing the recovery community to participate in our electoral process throughout the year. 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!”