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 23, 2009
Rally for Recovery
Join recovery advocates across the country on September 12th to Rally for Recovery! as part of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. May 15th is the deadline for people interested in applying to represent their state as a recovery delegate at the 2nd Brooklyn Bridge Recovery Rally in New York City on September 12. Click here to apply. Faces & Voices organizing network - to help you plan your September 12 rally and recovery advocay - will start up in May. Email us if you’d like to participate!
Science of Addiction & Recovery
There’s still space for the May 9, 2009 San Diego, CA Science of Addiction & Recovery train the trainer. Find out more here. And you can order our new DVD featuring trainer Flo Hilliard and the Science of Addiction and Recovery training and background materials here.
IntheRooms
Faces & Voices is very excited to be partnering with a great new online resource that we are using to stay in touch with the recovery community. It’s a social network called InTheRooms.com for people in recovery, their families, friends and allies as well as people seeking help. We have a group on the site where you can take an active role in promoting recovery advocacy. We’ll be posting information about Rally for Recovery events across the country on September 12 and other actions that you can take to support recovery. When you join InTheRooms, you will automatically be part of our group. See you there!
Run for Recovery, Run for the Children®
Faces & Voices is excited to partner with the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) on this year’s Marine Corps Marathon. We hope that you can join us in Washington, DC as a runner or volunteer this October. Register with us today!
College students in recovery put a new face on 4/20
Students at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT are changing the culture on campus, holding a WestConn Recovery Film Festival on April 20, advocating for sober housing and honoring the peer-to-peer support that has helped them sustain their recovery. The event, organized by Connecticut Turning to Youth and Families and other organizations, was covered in the local media. Learn more…
Resources
Legal Action Center and Partners for Recovery offer a series of five webinars Know Your Rights: Protecting People with Alcohol and Drug Problems and Criminal Records. The first on April 29 from 1:30-2:30 pm will be on Employment Discrimination Against People with Alcohol/Drug Histories. Learn more…
A Vision for a World without Stigma: Policy Goals for Addiction Recovery Advocates by Dr. Donald Kurth, president-elect of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a person in long-term recovery, calls for an end to discrimination facing people in or seeking recovery and the creation of a public health environment where every American is welcomed into treatment and care.
Wellstone Action's Camp Wellstone weekend training program with hands-on, skill building in grassroots politics for citizen activists are coming up in Green Bay, WI, Durham, NC and Chicago, IL. Learn more...
Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research Based Guide (Second Edition) has been updated and revised by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, as part of the release of a new screening initiative called NIDAMED
Mutual Support Resources Guide. Check out our comprehensive guide to mutual aid or support resources that is managed and updated on a monthly basis by Lora Pasetti and Bill White. Many of the groups in this comprehensive guide offer face-to-face meetings and some form of online participation.
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