eNewsletter
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 - February 25, 2009
Congressional Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus
Ask your Representative to join today! The 111th Congress’ Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus is up and running and Faces & Voices is working with allied organizations to enlist one-third of House members join and focus attention on federal policies to support recovery. Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and John Sullivan (R-OK) are the Caucus co-chairs, joined by Representatives Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) who will be serving as Vice co-chairs. Find out more!
FY 2009 Funding bill advances-RCSP funding restored
The US House of Representatives will be voting later this week on the Omnibus Spending bill for FY 2009. The proposal restores $5.236 million in funding for the Recovery Community Serivces Program at SAMHSA/CSAT. Recovery advocates across the country worked hard to restore funding for this critical program, learn more…
InTheRooms.com
Faces & Voices is pleased to be partnering with the social networking site In the Rooms, where we’ll be bringing recovery advocacy online and building new opportunties for people in recovery, their families, friends and allies to speak out so. To join us onIn the Rooms, you can log on from the Faces & Voices website.
Recovery-based Care and the Organized Recovery Community
Faces & Voices has a new annotated powerpoint, Recovery-based Care and the Organized Recovery Community. We hope that you will use it in your public education and advocacy work and look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments.
Online book club
There are just a few more days to join the discussion on Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s Moments of Clarity. On March 1, our new book will be Benoit Denizet-Lewis’ book America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life.
Science of Addiction and Recovery
Click on one of the links below to register online for one of our Science of Addiction Recovery Trainings. Learn more about the Science of Addiction and Recovery train the trainer series here. Thanks to all of our sponsors!
Resources
The Foundation for Recovery hosted a Town Hall meeting in November to discuss the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. You can watch the event here. Learn more…
Treatment & Recovery: People & Outcomesis the theme of this year’s American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) conference that will feature Bill White and many speakers in long-term recovery using medications. The pre-registration deadline is March 13, 2009. Learn more here.
Recovering from Addiction: The Kids' Perspective is a February 26, 2009 hour-long broadcast from the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA) that will include teen panelists discussing their recovery.
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery’s second Recovery Coach Academy is scheduled for March 30 - April 3, 2009. Read the Recovery Coach Academy newsletter to find out more.
Remembrance
The recovery community lost a great friend, champion and guiding light with the recent death of Ken Schonlau. He helped found the Sober Living Network and the CLARE Foundation, was a leader in the Association of Halfway House Addiction Programs, helping countless people find long-term recovery from addiction. Learn more...
Check out Faces & Voices Guide to Mutual Support featuring Upcoming Conferences and Conventions