Community Listening Forum Toolkit: Make Your Voice Heard!
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Recovery Advocacy Toolkit: Making Our Voices Count
includes media outreach templates, event organizing “how-to” materials and many other resources. Learn more…
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eNewsletter - December 4, 2007
Recovery Voices Count launched
Successful NH Presidential Town Hall
Representatives from nine US Presidential campaigns appeared at the December 2, 2007 Plaistow, NH Presidential Town Hall, where they spoke and responded to questions about candidates’ positions on key addiction prevention, treatment and recovery issues, including ending insurance discrimination. Thanks to moderator Lisa Peakes, NH Public Radio’s Morning Edition host, and all of the sponsoring organizations. Here are a few pictures. Stay tuned for video footage and a full report on the event along with tools that you can use to raise recovery issues in the 2008 election cycle as part of our bi-partisan Recovery Community Civic Engagement campaign.
Profiles of Recovery Advocacy in Action
The seventh in our series of interviews with recovery advocates from across the country by Bill White and Pat Taylor features Andre Johnson, President/CEO of the Detroit Recovery Project. Learn more…
Recovery Advocacy Teleconferences in 2008
January 30: Recovery Voices Count; February 27: Recovery Community Centers Part 1; March 26: Recovery Community Centers Part 2. All at 3:00 pm Eastern. Mark your calendar, details to follow.
Resources
The Second Road has launched an online support community for the recovery community that includes documentary-style recovery-story videos, a unique ‘Sharing Wall’, cultural and newsworthy features, and research-backed support components.
The Saved Sista Project: A Faith-Based HIV Prevention Program for Black Women in Addiction Recovery, authored by Cassandra Collins, David Whiters and Ronald Braithwaite describes a peer-led HIV prevention project in Atlanta.
The Lost in Woonsocket campaign offers showings of an inspiring film and sales of a Special Edition DVD as fund raisers for recovery, homeless, and faith based organizations. Learn more…
Combined Federal Campaign (CFC):
If you are a member of the military or a federal employee, please support our recovery advocacy movement by designating Faces & Voices of Recovery through the CFC. Please enter our CFC code #12486 on your pledge card during this fall’s fund drive.