Community Listening Forum Toolkit: Make Your Voice Heard!
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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 - July 2, 2009
Welcome to our New Board members!
Faces & Voices of Recovery welcomes our new Board members and thanks all of the recovery advocates who put themselves forth as nominees. On June 24-26 the board held its annual retreat in Washington, DC. We also held the second annual Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Awards reception on the 25th where we honored PRO-ACT as the outstanding recovery community organization of the year and gave meritorious recognition to the El Paso Alliance (TX), Alabama Voices for Recovery and People Advocating Recovery (KY). Here are some pictures and we’ll be posting a video of the event soon. Thank you to everyone who participated for making this an outstanding evening!
Fourth of July and health care reform
Thanks to the thousands of people who participated in the National Call-in Day on June 17th! We need your continued help to expand opportunities for people to get the help that they need to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Members of Congress are back home for the July 4th recess, a great time to be in touch with your Representative and Senators about the need to expand opportunities for recovery as part of health care reform. Learn more…
2009 Recovery Advocacy Teleconferences underway!
Sign up today for our upcoming teleconferences on health care reform; The Recovery Bill of Rights and Young People in Recovery. If you missed it, you can listen to the June 30 teleconference featuring historian Bill White, PRO-ACT Executive Director Bev Haberle and CCAR Executive Director Phil Valentine here. You can also download Bill White's new publication, "Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support: History, Theory, Practice and Scientific Evaluation" from our web site. Just go here and click on Publications.
Rally for Recovery! September 12, 2009
Recovery Month is just around the corner and recovery community organizations and allies around the country are gearing up for the biggest public display of the reality of recovery ever! This year, the Brooklyn Bridge Recovery Rally will be the “hub” event for Rally for Recovery! The recovery delegates from all 50 states will be announced later this month. Thanks to everyone who applied to be a delegate! Some of the other Rally for Recovery! events include: South Florida Rally for Recovery!, the Ohio/Kentucky Purple People Bridge Rally for Recovery, and Rally for Recovery at The Woods at Parkside in Columbus, OH . To find out more about Rally for Recovery! and to register your event, click here.
Run for Recovery, Run for the Children
Faces & Voices is excited to partner with the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) on this year’s Marine Corps Marathon. We hope that you can join us in Washington, DC as a runner or volunteer this October. Register with us today!
Resources
United We Serve is a new summer service initiative launched by President Obama that runs through September 11, 2009, the new National Day of Service and Remembrance. Find out how you and your organization can connect with others giving back in your community. Learn more…
State-specific tools on the restoration of voting rights are now available from the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. The agency's Web site includes a comprehensive guide for individuals across the country to learn how to regain their voting rights if they are eligible. The site has links for each state that point directly to the state's disenfranchisement laws and restoration procedures.
It’s All in the Journey’s latest issue is available online.
National Art of Recovery Show 2009 Call for Entries: SAARA of Central Virginia is organizing its annual Art of Recovery Show in conjunction with National Recovery Month. The theme for this year’s show is “Renewal” and there are prizes for award-winning artists. Learn more…
Recovery and the Health Care/Insurance Systems: Improving Treatment and Increasing Access June 2009 Road to Recovery Webcast. Learn more…
A new survey from Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap (CATG) initiative found that over three-quarters of Americans, regardless of age, race, income or residence, know someone who has been addicted to alcohol or drugs, and that three-quarters of Americans support including alcohol and other drug treatment in national healthcare reform to make it more affordable.
Have a wonderful and safe July 4th.
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