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eNewsletter - June 20, 2008
Know Your Rights : The Legal Rights of People with Alcohol and Drug Histories and/or Criminal Records
The Legal Action Center’s Know Your Rights: The Legal Rights of People with Alcohol and Drug Histories and/or Criminal Records training is now available as a PowerPoint presentation that can be used to educate people about the rights of people in recovery. It can be tailored for your own presentation.
The comprehensive Powerpoint presentation grew out of a successful Legal Action Center training series that is part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Partners for Recovery initiative. The trainings were aimed to inspire key stakeholders in all 50 states to develop and implement Know Your Rights trainings and resources in their own states and to provide individuals with the tools to do it.
Use this PowerPoint presentation to educate people about the rights of individuals in recovery. As explained more fully in the Users Guide for PowerPoint Presentation, it covers the federal laws that prohibit employers, landlords, government agencies, and others from discriminating based on a persons alcoholism, drug addiction, or criminal record. It also provides suggestions on how people can gather evidence of rehabilitation and overcome obstacles created by their former addiction or criminal histories. There is an optional section on Medication Assisted Treatment. Though the presentation covers federal anti-discrimination laws only, it has markers where applicable state law can be inserted.
You can also use How to Exercise Your Rights Under Anti-Discrimination Laws as a hand-out for your training. It has contact information for the government agencies that enforce these laws.
Contact the Legal Action Center’s Legal Director, Sally Friedman at sfriedman@lac.org or 212.243.1313 x130 if you have any questions. Please let her know how you’ve used the presentation in your community, your thoughts and ideas about how it worked as well as ideas for how it can be improved.