Community Listening Forum Toolkit: Make Your Voice Heard!
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eNewsletter - February 18, 2010
Rally for Recovery!
Mark your calendars for 2010 Rally for Recovery! and Recovery Month activities. September 25, 2010 will be this year’s national day and we will be working with recovery advocates across the country to turn out over 100,000 people! We’re putting together a series of organizing tools featuring some of the successful strategies and tools that recovery community organizations used last year. Thanks to PRO-ACT for telling about about how they secured a billboard on busy I-95 to promote their event in our 2010 Organizing Tip No. 1. We’ll be featuring other tools over the coming months. If you’d like to be part of our 2010 organizing network to plan your event, email us.
FY 2011 Budget
The Obama Administration has released its proposed FY 2011 budget. Faces & Voices has joined with allied organizations to offer its proposals for Congress to consider as it looks at funding priorities on this chart. Stay tuned as we keep you updated on next steps to ensure funding to support recovery.
Briefing on Wellstone-Domenici regulations Friday, February 19
The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will be holding a briefing on the interim final rule for the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act on Friday, February 19 at 9:00 am Eastern that can be viewed online. Learn more...
Recovery Community Organization News
Check out some recent publications, activities and organizing updates from recovery community organizations around the country. People Advocating Recovery’s (KY) campaign to restore voting rights to people with drug convictions is picking up steam with a March 4 Voting Rights Lobby Day to come on the heals of a February 27 Singing for Democracy celebration combining music and activism. Friends of Recovery Vermont’s new web site has information on Video Discussion Groups; Addiction Recovery Training Series; and a March 19 Recovery Day at the State House.
Faces & Voices Board chair honored
Carol McDaid, co-founder of the Richmond, VA-based McShin Foundation, Principal of Washington, DC-based Capitol Decisions and Faces & Voices board chair will receive the 2010 Award of Excellence from the National Council on Community Behavioral Healthcare to refine public policy addressing alcohol and other drug addiction and for her leadership in the enactment of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. Congratulations!
Resources
White Bison’s Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps Training on February 25 – 27 in Colorado Springs, CO. Upcoming trainings are Daughters of Tradition on March 2 – 4; Fathers of Tradition on March 24 – 26; Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps for Youth on March 29 – 31; and Sons of Tradition on April 6 – 8 as part of the Wellbriety Training Institute in Colorado Springs. To find out more and to register, go here.
Alcohol/Drug/Substance “Abuse”: The History and (Hopeful) Demise of a Pernicious Label is a commentary by William L. White, M.A. and John F. Kelly, Ph.D. who join a growing list of addiction professionals who have advocated the immediate and permanent removal of the abuse/abuser terminology.
Children of Alcoholics Week is being celebrated this week, February 14-20 internationally. The National Association for Children of Alcoholics has put together resources to use during this week and throughout the year.
“When Love Is Not Enough” tells the dramatic story of Lois and Bill Wilson which led to the founding of Al-Anon and AA and will be showing on Hallmark Hall of Fame on CBS on April 25 at 9:00 pm Eastern. Mark your calendar for viewing parties and other activities Learn More...
Recovery-Oriented System of Care: A Recovery Community Perspective White Paper was developed by the Recovery-based Issues Committee of the Pennsylvania Drug and Alcohol Coalition.
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