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 - April 8, 2009
Members of Congress home until April 20th
Take time to set up a meeting with your elected officials and staff while your Senators and Representative are back home for the April "recess". Momentum is building for action in Washington on health care and other issues crucial to the recovery community. Use this opportunity to educate your elected officials about these issues so that they can make decisions informed by you when they return to Washington. Learn more…
Online book club
Our new book selection is Gary Stromberg’s Second Chances. Join Gary online to answer your questions and participate in the discussion throughout the month of April!
Call for nominations
Monday, April 13, 2009 is the deadline for Faces & Voices Board of Directors’ call for nominations for service on the Faces & Voices board. Learn more…
Congressional Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus
Ask your Representative to join the Caucus today! The Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus is up and running and Faces & Voices is working with allied organizations to enlist one-third of House members join. Help focus attention on federal policies to support recovery. Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and John Sullivan (R-OK) are the Caucus co-chairs, joined by Vice co-chairs Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH). Find out more!
Science of Addiction and Recovery DVD
Faces & Voices has a new DVD featuring trainer Flo Hilliard and the Science of Addiction and Recovery training and background materials. For information on ordering, click here. And there’s still space in San Diego, CA for the May 9, 2009 training. Find out more here.
National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009, S. 174
Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have introduced a bill to create a blue-ribbon panel with an eye to dramatically overhauling the US criminal justice system. Senator Webb has repeatedly pointed to the need to overhaul drug criminalization in hearings leading up to introduction of the bill. Find out more here.
The Recovery Bill of Rights in Scotland!
Faces & Voices Recovery’s Bill of Rights was featured in Scotland in March. Bill White and Pat Taylor presented a Master Class at STRADA, a partnership between the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Drug Misuse Research and Department of Adult and Continuing Education and DrugScope to provide drug and alcohol training across Scotland. Attendees autographed the Bill of Rights. A day earlier there was a presentation before Scotland's Futures Forum with Keith Humprheys. Thanks to Fraser Ross of SMART Recovery UK pictured on the left, for his help in bringing Faces & Voices to Scotland. Find out more about the Recovery Bill of Rights here.
Resources
Approaches to Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care is a new CD from the Southern Coast ATTC. The CD has a compilation of the latest publications on developing recovery-oriented systems of care. Find out more here.
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