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eNewsletter - January 6, 2009
Nominations Open for Voice of the Recovery Community Award
Faces & Voices' board of directors is pleased to call for nominations for the second annual Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award. The award recognizes one local, state or regional recovery community organization for mobilizing resources within and outside the recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Find out more about the award, Joel Hernandez and how to nominate an outstanding recovery community organization to be the honoree here.
Faces & Voices of Recovery's Online Book Club
Our third book club selection is Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s new book, Moments of Clarity, Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery. Online discussion for this book will begin on February 1st. Christopher Kennedy Lawford will join us online to answer your questions and participate in the discussion throughout the month of February!
Let President-elect Obama know about Recovery
An American Moment is an opportunity to share your story, your concerns and hopes and the policies that you would like to see carried out over the next four years with President-elect Obama’s transition team. Go here to share your vision.
Resources
America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life is a powerful and inspiring new book by Benoit Denizet-Lewis. He weaves his own story and observations about cultures of addiction and recovery into the stories of eight men and women and their recovery journeys. America Anonymous will be featured in an upcoming Book Club. Find out if he will be speaking in a community near you here.
Finding Hope in Recovery: Families Living With Addiction was produced by Mennonite Media and will air January 4 – February 22 on local ABC-TV stations. Find out here if the show will be airing in your community.
Mutual Support Resources Guide. Check out our comprehensive guide to mutual aid or support resources that is managed and updated on a monthly basis by Lora Pasetti and Bill White. Many of the groups in this comprehensive guide offer face-to-face meetings and some form of online participation.