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eNewsletter - February 16, 2012
Join us in recognizing 2012's most influential recovery community leaders and organizations by submitting your nominations for the Joel Hernandez and Vernon Johnson awards. Nominations are due by March 30, 2012. Recipients will receive their awards at a June 27, 2012 reception in Washington, DC.
Community Listening Forum
Faces & Voices is partnering with Beth Israel Medical Center, Exponents, Inc., Friends of Recovery - New York and the National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery for a Community Listening Forum on issues facing people in or seeking recovery from addiction who are living with HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C & other chronic health conditions. If you're in the New York City area on February 25, 2012, please join us from 9:30 am - 12:30. To register, go here.
Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center (BRSS TACS)
There are three separate funding opportunities in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) BRSS TACS initiative.
Recovery community organizations can apply for the BRSS TACS State Peer Awards for Health Care Reform Education Awards; applications are due February 24, 2012. Click here for information about the awards.
Recovery community organizations can apply for the BRSS TACS Peer Run Organization/Recovery Community Organization Awards; applications are due March 9, 2012. Click here for information about the awards. To join an email list for BRSS TACS updates, email BRSSTACS@center4si.com.
Recovery Advocacy in Action interviews
Recovery historian Bill White talked with Faces & Voices Director of Programs Tom Hill in Reflections on Two Decades of Recovery Advocacy and the State of Recovery Support Services: An Interview with Tom Hill.
Peer Recovery Support Services Webinar
Faces & Voices partnered with NAADAC - The Association of Addiction Professionals on a webinar called Peer Recovery Supports Services: Initiating, Stabilizing and Sustaining Long-term Recovery. You can listen to the webinar, featuring Tom Hill and Andre Johnson, Founder and President/CEO of the Detroit Recovery Project and a Faces & Voices board member here.
Resources
Breaking the Poverty Cycle: Creating Social and Economic Opportunities webinar looks at ways to help people with mental and substance use disorders exit poverty.
5th National Conference on Behavioral Health for Women and Girls: Health, Empowerment, Resilience and Recovery is a July 17-19, 2012 SAMHSA-sponsored conference for anyone interested in learning more and participating in a dialog about mental health and substance abuse prevention, treatment and recovery for women and girls.
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