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Recovery Advocacy Toolkit: Making Our Voices Count
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eNewsletter - August 21, 2009
Help us raise the national profile of recovery and publicize our growing recovery movement during the 20th annual National Recovery Month.
We’re looking forward to an incredible 2009 Rally for Recovery! on September 12th. PRO-ACT’s billboard on Interstate-95 promoting its Recovery Walks!; recovery music and concerts – Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), holding its 10th annual walk, will be featuring Rick Derringer and Selfish Steam; FAVOR-SC Greenville will be hosting Livingston Taylor in Greenville; McShin Foundation is bringing former Monkee Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues to Richmond, VA; and IntheRooms is featuring Eric Burdon and the Animals in Miami. And recovery advocates in England and Scotland are also joining in with their first-ever rallies.
There will be over 90 events this year thanks to all of your work and the organizing of recovery advocates and recovery community organizations and allies across the country.
As we come together as people in recovery, families, friends and allies to demonstrate the reality of recovery, we are also promoting policies that will end discrimination facing people in or seeking recovery and building our recovery advocacy movement. Mayors, state and federal legislators and other public officials will be attending events – it’s not too late to invite elected officials and allies to your event!
Advocacy Action Areas
There will be specific places where recovery advocates can take action to support recovery. At the 2008 “hub event” in St. Louis, MO and at the 2007 Liberty State Park, NJ rally hub, participants registered and pledged to vote, emailed their elected officials, endorsed the Recovery Bill of Rights and signed up to give back and support recovery in their communities. These advocacy activities motivate people to get involved in recovery advocacy activities all year long.
This year we are building on those efforts to encourage recovery advocates across the country to take action as they Rally for Recovery! Faces & Voices will be setting up computers at the national hub event at A&E's Brooklyn Bridge Rally so that participants can email their members of Congress about health reform. Here are some ideas for other advocacy activities that you can do. Let’s make Recovery Voices Count!
Rally for Recovery! resources on the Faces & Voices web site
Find out about events, organizing resources and more online. Download our logos for t-shirts, flyers and other Rally for Recovery! materials and purchase t-shirts, lapel stickers, buttons and more.
We will be collecting and distributing photographs and materials from many of these incredible events. Please send us photographs, flyers and other materials.
Joel Hernandez/Vernon Johnson America Honors Recovery event
Faces & Voices of Recovery is pleased to announce that in summer 2010 we will be partnering with Hazelden’s Center for Public Advocacy to honor an outstanding recovery community organization and individuals who are giving back to their communities so that future generations know the power and reality of long-term recovery from addiction. We look forward to this collaboration and carrying on the work of Vernon Johnson and the Johnson Institute and continuing to honor Joel Hernandez as we recognize the incredible contributions of individuals and organizations to our growing recovery advocacy movement. Stay tuned for details!
US Recovery Delegates
Faces & Voices is excited about a new partnership with the US Recovery Delegates. These individuals came together in 2008 as people in long-term recovery from addiction to participate as Delegates at A&E’s Brooklyn Bridge Recovery Rally in New York City. They have organized as the US Recovery Delegates to continue to work together as a group and individually to support recovery. Find out more!
2009 Recovery Advocacy Teleconference Series now online
Thanks to all of the speakers who made this year’s Recovery Advocacy Teleconference Series so successful. You can now listen online to the Building Bridges to Long-Term Recovery; National Health Care Reform; Recovery Bill of Rights; and Young People in Recovery teleconferences and download all of the materials that our speakers provided.
Wellstone-Domenici Act regulations
Thanks to everyone who contacted their US Senators asking them to sign on to a letter to the heads of the three federal agencies that are responsible for writing the regulations for the Act – the US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury. Learn more…
Thomas McLellan New Deputy Director of ONDCP
Tom McLellan is the Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), where he will assist in...learn more...
Walk or Run a 10K with Run for Recovery, Run for the Children
You don’t need to be an endurance runner to participate! Anyone can walk or run in the 10K and there’s more than enough time to prepare for 6.2 miles! Grab a buddy, create your own team – we’ll see you on October 25 and broaden public understanding of how addiction and recovery affect children, families and our communities. Register for the 10K between now and September 5! Your fee is only $55 and the amount you need to raise is only $500! Learn more...
Resources
Financing Mental Health and Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) launched a new website that features up-to-date information on the financing of mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services and delivery systems. Learn more…
Recovery Month press conference: Recovery advocates Chris Kelly and
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