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...
Staff
- Patricia (Pat) A. Taylor, Executive Director
- Tom Coderre, National Field Director
- Aaron Kucharski, Field Organizer
- Dannie Greenberg, Program and Development Officer
- Jared Hess, Program and Policy Associate
- Jennifer Taber, Intern
Patricia
(Pat) A. Taylor, Executive Director
Pat joined Faces & Voices of Recovery as campaign coordinator in 2003, building on many years of grassroots advocacy leadership. Most recently, Pat served as deputy director of Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems at George Washington University Medical Center; other work includes service as associate director of Neighborhood Funders Group, director of the Alcohol Policies Group at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and director of the Advocates Senior Alert Process at the health advocacy group Families USA. She has also worked as a U.S. Senate campaign staff member. A resident of the Washington suburb Takoma Park, MD, Pat and her husband, Bill Batko are the parents of one daughter, Abby Batko-Taylor.
Tom
Coderre, National Field Director
Tom joined Faces & Voices as National Field Director in 2006 to continue building grass roots recovery advocacy campaigns around the country. He heads up Faces & Voices 2008 Recovery Voices Count program, a nationwide nonpartisan civic engagement campaign. One of his first projects at Faces & Voices was organizing a successful grassroots campaign around the Emmy award winning HBO documentary, Addiction. He also led organizing efforts around Rally for Recovery! in September 2007, which brought together over 30,000 people at 60 events around the country. He is a nationally recognized organizer and speaker.
Tom has an extensive background in government and politics, serving in the Rhode Island State Senate from 1995-2003. He spent many years in non-profit management & development as a professional fundraiser and executive director. Tom is a person in long-term recovery which means he hasn't used drugs or alcohol since May of 2003. He first became active in recovery advocacy as a board member of Rhode Island CAREs (Communities for Addiction Recovery Efforts) and served as chairman of their advocacy committee. Tom continues to live in Rhode Island and travels extensively promoting Faces & Voices of Recovery advocacy efforts. He is a graduate of Rhode Island College.
Listen to Tom's essay, which aired on NPR's "This I Believe"
Aaron Kucharski, Field Organizer 
Aaron joined Faces and Voices of Recovery in March 2008 as the Field Organizer for our Recovery Voices Count project through the elections in November. Aaron has a long history of working on civic engagement and political campaigns especially with voter education and voter participation. He has spent many years in the non-profit sector building teams, educating voters, and organizing successful campaigns for many causes. He has a passion for helping people and has organized for workers rights, voter rights, and environmental justice. Aaron is a person in long-term recovery which means he hasn’t used alcohol or other drugs since September 6th, 2003. He is enthusiastic about sharing his political skills with the recovery community.
Dannie Greenberg, Program and Development Officer
Before joining Faces & Voices of Recovery in October 2005, Dannie went to school and worked at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. There, she became very interested and involved in alcohol and other drug problems and addiction issues. Some of her work at UW included collaborating on research studies investigating the effects of alcohol use on marriage, and teaching an alcohol education course to first year UW students. Dannie received her M.S. in Human Development and Family Studies in 2004 and moved to Washington, D.C. to pursue a career in the education, treatment, and recovery of addiction.
Jared Hess, Program and Policy Associate
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Jennifer is a senior studying psychology at American University in Washington, D.C. She first became interested in recovery and addiction upon hearing representatives from Faces and Voices speak to her Drugs and Behavior course. Upon graduating, Jennifer hopes to attend graduate school in the field of social or community psychology, focusing on creating change through a bottom-up process. She recently studied abroad in New Zealand, where she discovered her goal of performing action research and also learned how to rock climb. This year, she is focusing on completing her senior thesis, working in a research lab on campus, interning at Faces and Voices, and savoring her senior year.