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 - October 2, 2008
Addiction Equity Advances!
Last night, the US Senate passed The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act as part of The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act on a vote of 74 to 25.
Tuesday’s New York Times called for speedy Congressional action. On Monday, soon to retire Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN) held out hope for Congressional action this year. That hope will be realized on Friday if the US House passess the financial bailout bill, the last step on this long and twisting legislative journey. If the bill passes, the President has said that he will sign it into law. Congressional leaders including Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Dave Wellstone, the son of the late Senator Paul Wellstone, did not give up, nor did the countless advocates around the country who kept calling and emailing their elected officials in Washington, DC and speaking out at Town Hall meetings and writing letters-to-the-editor to keep ending insurnace discrimination facing people with addiction and mental illness on the agenda. We'll keep you posted!
Recovery Month 2008
The Recovery Project: Rounding out a month of the most public display of recovery in our nation’s history, on September 27 The Recovery Project was launched in New York, with thousands of people led by Recovery Delegates from each of the states taking off from Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn, heading across the Brooklyn Bridge to rally at City Hall Park. Drug court participants and graduates; people newly in...learn more...
Recovery Month Survey: Faces & Voices and other members of the Recovery Month Planning Partners have created a short online survey about Recovery Month to help inform activities in 2009. Would you please take a minute to fill out the survey to let the Planning Partners know about your ideas, thoughts and experiences? Thanks! And if you haven't done so already, please go to the Recovery Month web site and post your event today.
New National Public Opinion Survey: The federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released the results of a new national survey of the American public on their attitudes toward substance abuse, and the effectiveness of prevention, treatment and recovery programs. One of the findings is that a large majority of Americans believe that people in recovery from substance addictions can live productive lives and contribute to their community. Learn more...
Town Hall Meeting in Meriden, CT
Recovery Voices Count: Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) held the first of four town hall meetings on September 29, bringing together people in long-term recovery, family members and friends to educate and question policy makers about critical issues for the recovery community. Learn more...
Faces & Voices of Recovery's Online Book Club
Our second book club selection is "Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse (2008)," by Leonard A Jason, Bradley D. Olson, and Karen Foli. Learn more...
Resources
Thinking Beyond the Press Release, Talking With the Media: An Unnatural Conversation and Taking Control of Media Interviews is a series of excellent audio seminars to help build your organization and your personal ability to communicate about the reality of recovery. The series was developed by the Laufer Green Isaac communications firm for the Robert Wood Johnson. You can listen or download transcripts.
Sustaining Grassroots Community-based Programs: A Toolkit for Community and Faith-based Service Providers is a new publication from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). It is designed to help organizations plan for long-term survival. Learn more...
A Contest for Innovative Community-Based Media Projects from the The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will award as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news and information exchange. The deadline for applications is Nov. 1, 2008. Learn more...
Simple Information on Recovery Can Change Attitudes. New research supports all of the work that recovery advocates have been doing to put a face and a voice on recovery. According to a study published in the September 2008 issue of the Psychiatric Bulletin, a simple, illustrated leaflet can be effective in reducing negative attitudes towards people with mental illness and addiction. Learn more...
God as we understand Him: A film about faith and the 12 Step movement is a one-hour documentary film that explores the spiritual underpinnings of A.A. focusing on how people of different faiths and creeds work the 12 steps and support one another in fellowship.
Become a member of Faces & Voices of Recovery today!