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June 14, 2010
America Honors Recovery awards announced; Rally for Recovery!; resources, Learn more...
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 - November 18, 2008
Recovery Voices Count
We’ve been collecting exciting reports from the many organizations that were involved in this year’s Recovery Voices Count campaign. Here’s a story and picture about Kentucky’s Tayna Fogle, who was featured in Disenfranchisement Times as a first-time voter. Tayna, who is a leader with People Advocating Recovery and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, voted for the first time this year after KY revoked her voting rights in 2004. She was joined at the polls by her 26-year old son who registered this year and was the 11th person in line to vote at 6:00 am. Read more about Tayna’s activities here.
Rally for Recovery! follow up
Thanks to A New PATH and the many organizations who’ve sent in pictures and reports on their 2008 Rally for Recovery events. This year marked the fourth annual “Strut for Sobriety!” featuring a silent auction, awards ceremony and theatrical fashion show, attended by over 350 people who gathered to celebrate recovery. If you haven’t told us about your event, it’s not too late! The Road to Recovery 2008: A Showcase of Events is the “wrap-up” show from National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month.
Wellstone/Domenici Mental Health and Addiction Equity Celebration
Members of Congress joined advocates and supporters from around the country in Washington, DC to celebrate enactment of the Wellstone/Domenici Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act on November 17th. Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter joined Representatives Jim Ramstad (R-MN) and Patrick Kennedy (D-RI); Senator Domenici (R-NM), Enzi (R-WY) and other members of Congress in celebrating passage of the new law. We’ll keep you posted on the next steps on implementing it!
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...
Recovery Month 2009 - Share your Recovery Story
Join other recovery advocates in telling your story as part of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. Please email us for more information. Thanks to everyone who told their stories in the 2008 Recovery Month Toolkit!
Resources
“Managing Post-Surgical Pain for Those in Addiction Recovery” is a new brochure from the Hanley Center and The Recovery Church featuring the story of Faces & Voices board member Jo Campe, who describes his experiences with opiate withdrawl after knee surgery in this useful publication for people in recovery preparing for surgery. For more information call (561) 841-1000, 1-800-444-7008.
Wellbriety for Prisons is providing a network of supportive programs for individuals within the prison system, in treatment centers, half-way houses, pre-release centers and in the community. There’s emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual support for Native Americans who are looking for a traditional alternative to recovery support and relapse prevention and transition back to the community and now a new training for correction institutions and re-entry centers. Learn more...
“An Introduction to Mutual Support Groups for Alcohol and Drug Abuse,” is a new resource from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. The six-page fact sheet has information on the effects of mutual support groups on helping people sustain their recovery as well the different types of mutual support groups.
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