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...
Training: Recovery Advocacy Teleconference Series
Faces & Voices of Recovery will be holding a series of four teleconferences to hone your advocacy skills. These one-hour interactive teleconferences will give you expert information and a chance to ask questions of our experts. Participants will receive a toll-free number to call in and listen to the teleconference and will receive a PowerPoint presentation and background materials prior to the teleconference.
Organizing Network
March 26th: "Recovery Community Centers Part 2"
February 27th: "Recovery Community Centers Part 1"
January 30th: "Recovery Voices Count"
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Faces and Voices of Recovery Organizing Network
Faces & Voices of Recovery hosts monthly conference calls where advocates learn from one another about how to organize rallies, gain media exposure to their work, conduct voter registration drives, and other activities. For more information about the Organizing Network, click here. If you’d like to be part of the organizing network teleconferences, please email us.
April 23, 2008: "Voter Registration"
If you missed the April 23rd Organizing Network teleconference, click here to listen to the audio portion. Supplemental materials will be available soon.
Speakers
- Aaron Kucharski, Field Organizer, Faces & Voices of Recovery
- Antonio Ruberto, Gay & Lesbian Center, New York City
- Mellisa Herren, Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery, Boston
- Tayna Fogle, People Advocating Recovery, Kentucky
Supplemental Materials
March 27, 2008: "Organizing Rallies"
If you missed the March 27th Organizing Network teleconference, click here to listen to the audio portion and click here to view the notes. Supplemental materials can be found below.
Speakers
- Tom Coderre, moderator , Faces and Voices of Recovery
- Phil Valentine, Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
- Ken Jones, California Association of Addiction Recovery Resources (CAARR)
- Jeanette Grimes, Friends of Recovery New Jersey
Supplemental Materials
- Organizing Your Recovery Walk: Everything You Want to Know
- Rising! Fall 2007: Rally for Recovery
- Notes from the call
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"Recovery Community Centers: Anchored in the Recovery Community, Part 2: Their Operation"
March 26, 2008
If you missed the January 30th teleconference, click here to listen to the audio portion and download the PowerPoint presentation along with other materials.
About the training
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) and the Vermont Recovery Center Network have been pioneers in developing Recovery Community Centers. These recovery-oriented sanctuaries are anchored in the heart of the community and put a face on recovery, build recovery capital and serve as a physical location where the local recovery community's ability to care is organized. While Recovery Community Centers are not treatment agencies, 12 Step clubs, or drop-in centers, aspects of all of these are apparent. In the second of our Recovery Community Center teleconferences, learn more about the day-to-day, nuts and bolts of how they’re run and operated. Explore life in a Recovery Community Center.
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"Recovery Community Centers: Anchored in the Recovery Community, Part 1 "
February 27, 2008
If you missed the February 27th teleconference, click here to listen to the audio portion and download the PowerPoint presentation along with other materials.
About the Training
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), Vermont, and The Recover Project in Western Massachusetts have pioneered the development of Recovery Community Centers. These recovery-oriented sanctuaries are anchored in the heart of the community and put a face on recovery, build recovery capital and serve as a physical location where the local recovery community's ability to care is organized. While Recovery Community Centers are not treatment agencies, 12 Step clubs, or drop-in centers, aspects of all of these are apparent. In the first of our two-part teleconferences on Recovery Community Centers, learn more about what they are and how they’re organized. In the second part, we’ll explore how they are operating on a day-to-day basis.
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"Recovery Voices Count"
January 30, 2008
If you missed the January 30th teleconference, click here to listen to the audio portion and download the PowerPoint presentation along with other materials.
About the Training
The topic of the 1st teleconference in the 2008 series was "Recovery Voices Count." Growing numbers of recovery community organizations and recovery advocates across the country are getting involved in nonpartisan civic engagement 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. During this teleconference, you will learn from experts in the field about how to get involved in this exciting campaign.
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Thank you to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, US Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and our members for their support of this Teleconference Series.