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Training: Recovery Advocacy Teleconference Series
Faces & Voices of Recovery will be holding a series of four teleconferences to hone your advocacy skills. These one-hour interactive teleconferences will give you expert information and a chance to ask questions of our experts. Participants will receive a toll-free number to call in and listen to the teleconference and will receive a PowerPoint presentation and background materials prior to the teleconference.
Listen and watch Faces & Voices' previous teleconferences:
- March 26, 2008: "Recovery Community Centers, Part 2"
- February 27, 2008: "Recovery Community Centers, Part1"
- January 30, 2008: "Recovery Voices Count"
- April 21, 2007: "Peer Recovery Support Services."
- March 24, 2007: "Rights for People with Drug Convictions."
- February 3, 2007: “Editorial Boards – Media Outreach Nuts and Bolts.”
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"Recovery Community Centers: Anchored in the Recovery Community, Part 2: Their Operation"
March 26, 2008
Listen to an audio recording and follow along with the PowerPoint presentation by downloading it here.
About the training
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) and the Vermont Recovery Center Network have been pioneers in developing Recovery Community Centers. These recovery-oriented sanctuaries are anchored in the heart of the community and put a face on recovery, build recovery capital and serve as a physical location where the local recovery community's ability to care is organized. While Recovery Community Centers are not treatment agencies, 12 Step clubs, or drop-in centers, aspects of all of these are apparent. In the second of our Recovery Community Center teleconferences, learn more about the day-to-day, nuts and bolts of how they’re run and operated. Explore life in a Recovery Community Center.
Supplemental Materials
- Audio recording of the teleconference
- PowerPoint presentation: Recovery Community Centers: Anchored in the Recovery Community, Part 2
- Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
- Vermont Recovery Center Network
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"Recovery Community Centers: Anchored in the Recovery Community, Part 1"
- February 27, 2008
Click here to download the PowerPoint from the teleconference that includes the audio portion of the call. (Make sure the volume is turned up on your computer)
If you have trouble viewing the teleconference, you can download the audio file and follow along with the PowerPoint.
About the Training
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), Vermont, and The Recover Project in Western Massachusetts have pioneered the development of Recovery Community Centers. These recovery-oriented sanctuaries are anchored in the heart of the community and put a face on recovery, build recovery capital and serve as a physical location where the local recovery community's ability to care is organized. While Recovery Community Centers are not treatment agencies, 12 Step clubs, or drop-in centers, aspects of all of these are apparent. In the first of our two-part teleconferences on Recovery Community Centers, learn more about what they are and how they’re organized. In the second part, we’ll explore how they are operating on a day-to-day basis.
Supplemental Materials
- Audio recording of the teleconference
- PowerPoint presentation: Recovery Community Centers: Anchored in the Recovery Community, Part 1
- RECOVER Project workbook: How to Build a Recovery Center
- Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
- The RECOVER Project
- The RECOVER Project's brochure
- Vermont Recovery Center Network
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"Recovery Voices Count"
January 30, 2008
Listen to an audio recording and follow along with the PowerPoint presentation by downloading it here.
About the Training
The topic of the 1st teleconference in the 2008 series was "Recovery Voices Count." Growing numbers of recovery community organizations and recovery advocates across the country are getting involved in nonpartisan civic engagement activities so that their voices can be heard in the local, state and national arenas. They are conducting voter registration and Get-Out-the-Vote activities, sponsoring candidate forums and getting candidates for political office on record about critical policies that will make recovery a reality for even more Americans. During this teleconference, you will learn from experts in the field about how to get involved in this exciting campaign.
Supplemental Materials
- Audio recording of the teleconference
- PowerPoint presentation: "Recovery Voices Count " teleconference
- Candidate Pledge and Questions – Call to Action
- 2008 Recovery Voices Count: A Guide to Non-Partisan Civic Engagement
- Wellstone Action's Non-partisan Voter Engagement Manual
- NCADD-New Jersey's Decision 2007 General Election Guide
- Purchase Recovery Voices Count T-Shirts
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"Peer Recovery Support Services."
April 21, 2007
Listen to an audio recording and follow along with the PowerPoint presentation by downloading it here.
Supplemental Materials
- RCSP Conference Report: Emerging Peer Recovery Support Services and Indicators of Quality
- RCSP Informational Sheet
- White Bison Wellbriety Milestones and Resources
- Rising! Recovery In Action
- CSAT meeting presentation on Recovery Support Services
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"Rights for People with Drug Convictions."
March 24, 2007
Listen to an audio recording and follow along with the PowerPoint presentation by downloading it here.
Supplemental Materials
- Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States
- After Prison: Roadblock to Reentry
- A Report on State Legal Barriers Facing People with Criminal Records
- Promoting the Hallmark of Democracy: Voting
- Newspaper Op-Ed about restoring voting rights in Kentucky
- Newspaper Letter to the Editor about restoring voting rights in Kentucky
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“Editorial Boards – Media Outreach Nuts and Bolts.”
February 3, 2007
Watch and listen. You can also just look at or download the powerpoint presentation.
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Thank you to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, US Department of Health and Human Services’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and our members for their support of this Teleconference Series.