2008 CFC# 12486 
eNewsletter
November 18, 2008
Recovery Voices Count; Online Book Club; Insurance Equity Celebration, learn more...
Recovery Advocacy Toolkit: Making Our Voices Count
includes media outreach templates, event organizing “how-to” materials and many other resources. Lean more…
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eNewsletter - August 28, 2008
Rally for Recovery 2008
On September 20, as part of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, recovery community organizations around the country will participate in Rally for Recovery! at over 80 events. At this year's hub event, Hands Across the Bridge at Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri, we will be releasing The Recovery Bill of Rights.
This statement of the principle that all Americans have a right to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs was developed and adopted by Faces & Voices of Recovery's board of directors and has been endorsed by allied national organizations. We call on all Americans and our elected officials to take action to build communities of recovery that will support the more than 22 million Americans and their families still needing help and to end discrimination facing millions in long-term recovery. Find out more about The Recovery Bill of Rights.
Recovery Advocacy Toolkit - check out our new Recovery Advocacy Toolkit for tips and tools for using The Recovery Bill of Rights and participating in the 2008 Recovery Voices Count campaign. For example, Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego Counties, New York's strategy for publicizing their Rally for Recovery and Recovery Month activities is to send four letters to the editor over the next month. The first was just published. Learn more...
Recovery at national conventions
Faces & Voices of Recovery is spearheading an effort to raise the profile of recovery at the Democratic and Republican national party conventions. Working with recovery advocates in Denver, CO and St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN; convention delegates and guests who are part of the recovery community; and allied organizations in the Whole Health Campaign, there's a Recovery Wellness Room in Denver. Check out video footage of the Recovery Wellness Room and an interview with Faces & Voices' National Field Director, Tom Coderre. Learn more...
Insurance Equity Update
Mark your calendars! September 10 will be the final call-in day to end insurance discrimination facing people with addiction and mental illness and on September 17 there will be a rally on Capitol Hill as part of our final push for insurance equity. When Congress returns from its recess on September 8, there will just be a few short days for final action on the compromise bill that has been negotiated between the House and the Senate.
Faces & Voices of Recovery's Book Club
There are just a few more days to join our online discussion of Let's Go Make Some History! Let us know your ideas for books that you'd like to read and discuss!
Resources
Recovery Management and Recovery-oriented Systems of Care: Scientific Rationale and Promising Practices by William L. White is a new monograph that lays out the empirical support for moving to recovery-oriented systems of care.
"Accessing Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Online" is the August 2008 Recovery Month web cast. The show highlights the state of recovery in the 21st century and examines how the internet and new technologies are helping more Americans find and support their recovery.
The Recovery Institute (RI) Training Program is a new series of trainings from PRO-A in Harrisburgh, PA. The trainings were developed to support the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB) Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS) credential that will be rolled out to on September 16, 2008 at the PRO-A Annual Conference.
It's All in the Journey latest issue includes an interview with Faces & Voices Executive Director Pat Taylor.
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