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eNewsletter - February 12, 2009
Tom Coderre - A face and a voice of recovery
Faces & Voices board and staff joined with friends and allies in Washington, DC in January to honor Tom Coderre and thank him for his incredible work as our first National Field Director. Board chair Carol McDaid presented Tom with a resolution of thanks from the board as well as photographs from some of the incredible activities and events that he worked with recovery community organizations to organize – HBO’s Addiction Town Hall learn more…
Ramstad-Kennedy Annual Award nominations due
The Recovery Month Planning Partners have called for nominations for the second annual Ramstad-Kennedy Award for Outstanding Leadership by a Single State Authority Leader. Last year’s winner was Michael Botticelli, Director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Nominations due March 31, 2009.
Science of Addiction and Recovery
Click on one of the links below to register online for one of 4 Science of Addiction Recovery Trainings this spring! Learn more about the Science of Addiction and Recovery train the trainer series here. Thanks to all of our sponsors!
Discuss Moments of Clarity online
Join Christopher Kennedy Lawford online to discuss his new book, Moments of Clarity during February. March’s book will be America Anonymous. Faces & Voices Online Book Club features a new book each month.
February 28th deadline for Voice of the Recovery Community Award Nominations
Faces & Voices' board of directors is pleased to call for nominations for the second annual J oel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award. The award recognizes 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. The deadline is February 28, 2009. Find out more here.
National Children of Alcoholics Week: February 8-14, 2009
This annual observance’s 2009 theme is “A Celebration of Hope and Healing.” To find out more about activities around the country as well as to download educational materials, go to the The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) web site.
Resources
Building the Science of Recovery is a research brief by Dr. Alexandre Laudet that was developed as part of the May 2008 “Aligning Concepts, Practices and Contexts to Support Long-Term Recovery: An Action Plan Symposium in Philadelphia, PA. You can read other presentations and view the program online.
Public Attitudes Toward Addiction is a new public opinion survey from Hazelden that found strong public support for addressing addiction as a public-health, not a criminal justice issue. More than three-quarters (79 percent) of the 1,000 adults polled called the War on Drugs a failure, and 83 percent said that first-time drug offenders should be sent to addiction-treatment programs, not prison.
State-level information from the federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) about alcohol and drug problems and other data now available. The “States in Brief” reports are drawn from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), a SAMHSA-sponsored annual survey of approximately 67,500 people. The 2010 NSDUH will include questions about recovery for the first time thanks to advocacy by Faces & Voices of Recovery and others.