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 - January 25, 2008
Recovery Voices Count
Join us on January 30 at 3:00 pm Eastern for a Recovery Advocacy teleconferences with Gwen Henderson, Women in New Recovery; Lori McDaniel, NCADD-New Jersey; Jeff Blodgett, Wellstone Action; and Tom Coderre, Faces & Voices of Recovery. Registration deadline January 28 Learn more...
See FAVOR SC Board member Bob Rice asking Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), representing the Senator John McCain Presidential campaign, about insurance discrimination and read Senator Barack Obama's response to a question about the discriminatory barriers facing people in recovery.
Watch our New Hampshire Presidential Town Hall meeting online.
Nominations Open for Voice of the Recovery Community Award
Faces & Voices' board of directors is excited to announce the Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award. This award will recognize one local, state or regional recovery community organization for mobilizing resources within and outside the recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Find out more about the award, Joel Hernandez and how to nominate an outstanding recovery community organization to be the first honoree here.
Recovery Community Organization Executive Director Support Group Launched
Faces & Voices is pleased to announce a support group for the executive directors of recovery community organizations. Helping build and strengthen recovery community organizations ... Learn more
Profiles of Recovery Advocacy in Action
The ninth in our series of interviews with recovery advocates from across the country by Bill White and Pat Taylor features Merlyn Karst, chair, Faces & Voices of Recovery board of directors and co-founder, Advocates for Recovery – Colorado. Learn more…
Transitions
Faces & Voices of Recovery's board of directors welcomes Patty McCarthy, Executive Director of Friends of Recovery VT, to the board as New England regional representative. Patty will be filling out the term of Hugh Tudor-Foley, who has moved to Arizona. Welcome!
The Johnson Institute has announced that Johnny Allem will retire from the active role of President and CEO by the end of 2008 to assume the role of President Emeritus and is searching for a successor. Learn more...
Resources
Recovery Radio: "Reach for Recovery" is a radio show about addiction and recovery hosted by Dr. Elinor Robin on WBZT-1230AM in South Florida on Fridays from 7-8:00 pm. Listeners can call-in and be a part of the conversation 800-889-0267 nationwide or hear the show live on the internet at www.wbzt.com.
Peer-based Recovery Support Services: The Connecticut Experience is an interview with Phillip Valentine, Executive Director of Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) by William White, part of Perspectives on Systems Transformation: How Visionary Leaders are Shifting Addiction Treatment Toward a Recovery-Oriented System of Care, the second in a series of monographs on recovery management published by the Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC).
The Institute for Addiction and Recovery at Rhode Island College was established to strengthen the state’s capacity to assist individuals and communities with addiction recovery efforts. Learn more…