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 20, 2009
Rally for Recovery! - September 12, 2009
Congratulations to the 2009 Recovery Delegates from each of the 50 states and Washington, DC selected to represent their states at the A&E Recovery Rally in New York City. Learn more…
To find out more about Rally for Recovery! sign up for our organizing network calls and to register your event, click here.
Recovery in the United Kingdom
The First Annual Highland Walk for Recovery and Recovery Walk in Liverpool on September 26, 2009 are just a few of the recovery-related activities underway in the UK. TheWired In online recovery community has come together to empower people to tackle substance use problems and give hope that recovery is possible. Recovery Rising features stories from people in recovery and in interview with Bill White.
Resources
Recovery Support Services for Methamphetamine-Using Clients webinar from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s Access to Recovery (ATR) Program features Karla Lomiglio, Welcome Home Ministries; Faces & Voices board member Carla Ayres, Roots in Recovery; and Lisa Valenzuela, Second Chance. The webinar describes Recovery Support Services and the ways in which they have been implemented in three communities.
The next National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month Webcast will premiere on August 5, 2009 on The Social Services System: Supporting Treatment and Recovery for Individuals and Families. Past Webcasts on DVD and videocassette are available for free, and can be ordered online.
Deadline extended to July 31: National Art of Recovery Show 2009 SAARA of Central Virginia’s annual Art of Recovery Show in conjunction with National Recovery Month. The theme is “Renewal” and there are prizes for award-winning artists. Learn more…
A Commentary on “Consumer” Language, Stigma, and Recovery Representation by William White.
Unforeseen Benefits: Addiction Treatment Reduces Health Care Costs is a White Paper from the Open Society Institute’s Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap describing the relationship between other health care costs and addiction; it cites studies showing that addiction treatment will contribute to containing health care costs by reducing emergency room visits, hospital stays and overall health care costs.
Faces & Voices Science of Addiction and Recovery DVD highlights now on YouTube.
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