Community Listening Forum Toolkit: Make Your Voice Heard!
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Profiles of Recovery Advocacy in Action
Faces & Voices is pleased to launch a regular series of interviews with recovery advocates from across the country who will be interviewed by Bill White and Pat Taylor.
Recovery Support Services in Ohio: An Interview with Anita Bertrand
Interview with Anita Bertrand by Bill White
One of the unique aspects of the extension of addiction treatment from an acute care model of intervention to a model of sustained recovery management is the latter's emphasis on the role of peer-based recovery support services in recovery initiation and long-term recovery maintenance. In the interview below with Anita Bertrand, we will explore the development of such services within one particular organizational setting - the Northern Ohio Recovery Association. Learn more...
Recovery on Campus: An Interview with Jennifer Cervi, Collegiate Recovery Program, University of Michigan
Interview with Jennifer Cervi by Bill White
To explore this early developmental process, Jennifer Cervi was invited to discuss the development of the Collegiate Recovery Program at the University of Michigan. Learn more...
Survivors of Straight, Inc.: An Interview with Marcus Chatfield
Interview with Marcus Chatfield by Bill White
There are those in the mental health recovery advocacy movement who refer to themselves as “survivors”—not just because they have survived mental illness but because they have survived harmful treatments. The series of recovery advocacy interviews posted on the Faces and Voices of Recovery website would be incomplete without providing a venue to discuss such potential harm in the addictions treatment arena with those who experienced it. Toward that end, I invited Marcus Chatfield to talk about the history and practices of Straight, Inc. and the work of Survivors of Straight, Inc. Please join me in this engaging and, at times, chilling conversation. Learn more...
Recovery Mobilization within Predominately African American Communities
Interview with David Whiters by Bill White
In the early 2000s, I was invited to speak at a meeting of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP) grantees. It was at that meeting that I first met David Whiters. I was captivated by his passion for recovery advocacy and his early vision of mobilizing Black churches as resources for addiction recovery support. Learn more...
Recovery Advocacy with Faces and Voices of Recovery
Interview with Pat Taylor by Bill White
Social movements, particularly those rising from historically stigmatized groups, are by their very nature turbulent. Leadership roles in such movements offer a rich menu of risks as well as opportunities. Learn More
Advocacy for Medication-Assisted Recovery
Interview with Walter Ginter by Bill White
In June of 2009, I interviewed Walter Ginter about the work he and others have done in advocating the legitimacy and effectiveness of medication-assisted recovery. Walter is one of the most skilled recovery advocates in the United States. Learn more...
Recovery Advocacy in Washington, DC
Interview with Johnny Allem by Bill White
Too often, someone of importance passes in the world of addiction treatment and recovery, and we realize that we never took the opportunity personally or as a community to acknowledge our respect and affection to them. Learn More...
Recovery Advocacy in Colorado
Interview with Merlyn Karst by Bill White
There are many people who have played and are playing a critical role in the New Recovery Advocacy Movement in America. One such person is Merlyn Karst. Learn More...
Recovery Advocacy in Colorado
Interview with Don Coyhis by Bill White
Don Coyhis represents the soul and the heart of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement in America. No one has given more of themselves to that movement. No one has exerted a greater influence on that movement. Learn More...
Recovery Advocacy in Michigan
Interview with Andre Johnson by Bill White
One of the most engaging figures in the New Recovery Advocacy Movement is Andre Johnson of the Detroit Recovery Project. Andre is noteworthy for his striking physical presence and warmth as well as his great passion for recovery advocacy. Learn More...
Recovery Advocacy in Pennsylvania
Interview with Bev Haberle by Bill White
Women have played important leadership roles in the New Recovery Advocacy Movement, and one of our most effective leaders is Bev Haberle, Executive Director of the Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. Learn More...
Recovery Advocacy in Kentucky
Interview with Mike Barry by Pat Taylor
Across the state of Kentucky, recovery advocates are coming together as part of People Advocating Recovery or PAR, a state-wide recovery advocacy organization. Learn more...
Recovery Advocacy in Richmond, VA
Interview with John Shinholser By Pat Taylor
In 2003, John Shinholser left a successful career to co-found the McShin Foundation with his wife, Carol McDaid. In a few short years, McShin, a Faces & Voices member and NCADD affiliate, has put recovery on the political and social map of Richmond, VA and surrounding communities. Learn more...
Recovery in a Time of Crisis: Responding to Katrina
Interview with Joe Powell by Bill White
The New Recovery Advocacy Movement in America has spawned grassroots organizations across the country whose volunteers are bestowing the fruits of their recovery upon local communities. Learn more...
Advocacy and Medication-assisted Recovery
Interview with Lisa Mojer Torres By Bill White
Inclusiveness is one of the distinctive core values of the new recovery advocacy movement. That value is predicated on the belief that there are multiple pathways and styles of long-term recovery and that the shared elements of those pathways and styles are more important than what distinguishes them. Learn more...
Recovery Advocacy in Connecticut
Interview with Phillip Valentine by William White
One of the bright organizational stars of the New Recovery Advocacy Movement is Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR). Learn more...