Community Listening Forum Toolkit: Make Your Voice Heard!
This step-by-step guide includes everthing you need to host a succesful Community Listening Forum. 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 - September 10, 2009
Faces & Voices is pleased to partner with A&E's The Recovery Project, the recovery community and allied organizations for this year’s Rally for Recovery! We will be raising the national profile of recovery and our growing recovery movement as over 70,000 Americans come together at events all across the country on Saturday, September 12th.
To mark the 20th anniversary of National Recovery Month we will be letting the public and policymakers know that over 20 million Americans are in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Learn more...
This year, recovery advocates in South Carolina are getting the word out about their Rally for Recovery! activities in very public ways. FAVOR SC has put up a billboard and have what may be the first ever shopping center marquee sign flashing information about their event, inviting the public to join them on September 12th!
Niki Miller wrote recently about her experiences being the NH Recovery Delegate at the 2008 A&E Brooklyn Bridge Rally. Read Niki’s thoughts and find out more about the US Recovery Delegates. This year’s Recovery Delegates will be leading the walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn on September 12th!
There will be over 90 Rally for Recovery! events and even more throughout Recovery Month thanks to all of your work and the organizing of recovery advocates and recovery community organizations and allies across the country.
Advocacy Action Areas
Advocacy activities are an important part of Rally for Recovery! They motivate people to get involved in recovery advocacy activities all year long. Louisville, KY ‘s September 5 Rally for Recovery! featured allied groups coming together to promote the restoration of voting rights for disenfranchised Kentuckians. Learn more…
Sharing your recovery story
is one of the activities that we suggested in August for this year’s Rally for Recovery! One of these stories comes from Bob Dunn who recently joined the board of Aaron’s House in Madison, WI. Bob has decided to share his story, to open up a dialogue about addiction recovery and celebrate the one-year anniversary of someone who is very close to him. Learn more…
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.
Resources
Lost in Woonsocket tour planning underway: Want to bring Lost in Woonsocket to your community? Check out a new flyer and information here.
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)’s Fall 2009 Recovery Coach Academy next session is scheduled from October 19 – 24, 2009.
All Rise! is a new campaign and web site from the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Check out the public service announcements here.
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...