America Honors Recovery Awards
Nominations now being accepted for the 2010 America Honors Recovery Awards! Learn more...
The Recovery Bill of Rights
is a statement of the principle that all Americans have a right to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Learn more…
The Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award
The Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award was established in 2008 to recognize one local, state or regional recovery community organization for its success in assessing the specific needs of their community and carrying out a vision and mission of mobilizing resources within and outside the recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.
The recovery community organization chosen will be recognized with a $2000 award and honored at The Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award reception in early summer in Washington, DC.
The name of the honored organization will be announced publicly two months before the reception and a representative from the organization will attend the award reception in Washington, DC, at Faces & Voices of Recovery’s expense. Faces & Voices of Recovery will work within the community of the honored organization to garner press attention and focus on the organization, its mission and accomplishments.
Read about Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), recipient of the first-everVoice of the Recovery Community Award.
Check out video footage from 2008's Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award reception. (coming soon)
Who should be nominated
Organizations that 1) are led and governed by representatives of local communities of recovery – people in long-term recovery from addiction, their families, friends and allies; 2) support all pathways to recovery and lifestyles of recovery, and; 3) work to promote and remove barriers to long-term recovery through recovery-focused policy advocacy and public education activities, and providing peer-based recovery support services.
Recovery community organizations nominated for the award are not required to be independent entities or 501 (c) 3 organizations.
Please email or call Dannie Greenberg at 202-737-0690 with any questions.