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: Our Stories Have Power...A Media Workshop for Recovery Advocates
1,056 recovery advocates trained and counting....
Find out how to use Faces & Voices of Recovery’s new messaging to advance our recovery advocacy agenda!
Growing numbers of recovery advocates are in the media – sometimes to give “human interest” to a story or because of growing press attention and coverage to our recovery advocacy activities. The media help us reach policy and decision makers; educate the public and recruit new members to our growing movement.
Faces & Voices of Recovery is holding Recovery Advocacy Message and Media Trainings around the country so that recovery advocates can learn more about messaging and using our stories to advocate for our issues.
Media directly affects how people feel, think, and act. Sharpen your skills as a recovery communicator, strategize with other recovery leaders, then take home new tools that you can use in your community.
Here's what people are saying about our trainings...
- "Great format, great material, great facility and host." - Roger Maryatt
- "This training will be a powerful tool in expanding our advocacy potential and success." - Betty Currier
- "...this was a very informative training for media, especially the focus on the one voice message of "Long Term Recovery Works and I am a living example." - Carl Matthews
- "As intended, it will be useful with the media - but I believe it will be useful, as well in working with government groups, treatment providers, etc - techniques for conveying your message, staying on track, using bridging statements to steer conversation. Thanks." - Anonymous
Media Training Materials. Here are some of the materials handed out at the trainings:
Media Trainer Biographies
Our Media Trainers are strong recovery advocates from around the country who have years of experience with the media. Learn about each trainer:
- Gabrielle Antolovich
- Mike Barry
- Tom Coderre
- Betty Currier
- Anara Guard
- Carol McDaid
- Joe Powell
- Pat Taylor
- Catherine Rush
Pictures from past Media Trainings