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eNewsletter - December 21, 2006
Mark your calendar for our audio/web conferences in 2007
Faces & Voices will be hosting a series of one-hour recovery advocacy audio/web conferences in 2007. All audio conferences will be held on Saturdays at 1:00 pm Eastern. Details to follow. Here are the topics for the series:
- February 3: Editorial Boards – Media Outreach Nuts and Bolts
- February 24: Restoring Rights for People with Drug Convictions
- March 24: Peer Recovery Support Services
- April 21: Recovery as Prevention
The audio conferences will be available live, with call-in opportunities for participants from around the country and then available online afterwards so that recovery advocates can access them for downloading or listening.
Rising! Recovery in Action
Our latest issue of Rising! Recovery in Action takes a look at the messenger, the message and the media – Bill White’s article, “Language and the Recovery Advocate: Why We Worry about Words” sets the stage for an interview with Rhode Island CAREs coordinator Carrie Blake; Greg Maloney of Advocates for Recovery describes his experiences at our message and media training and Faces & Voices chair Merlyn Karst talks about advocacy with anonymity and building membership in Faces & Voices. One benefit of joining Faces & Voices is receiving your copy of Rising! Recovery in Action in the mail.
Faces & Voices update
We are very grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for providing two more years of funding to Faces & Voices of Recovery to continue building our recovery advocacy movement in 2007-2008. We would also like to thank the federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Hanley Family Foundation and many individuals and organizations for their support in 2006. Faces & Voices has been fortunate to receive funding from these private foundations and government agencies over the past few years, but our future sustainability and growth and our ability to advocate will ultimately come from our members – both as a source of funds and as a constantly growing, organized and mobilized group of faces and voices for recovery.
Welcome to Tom Coderre who is joining Faces & Voices as our National Field Director! Tom will be working with recovery community organizations around the country on a number of Faces & Voices projects and initiatives. Tom attended our 2005 Summit in Washington, DC, served as the board chair of Rhode Island CAREs, serving as the chairman of their Advocacy Committee and helping to put together Legislative Day for the past three years. Tom is a former State Senator from Rhode Island and has worked extensively in non-profit management and development as well as community organizing.
Thanks to our intern, Maria Braeckel, who just completed a six-month internship and will be graduating from American University. She’s moved on to an internship with the new House Majority Leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer.
Chris Kelly from Advocates for Recovery through Medicine is helping out until our new intern, Holly Robertson, starts work in the middle of January.
Our very best wishes in the coming New Year!
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