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 20, 2010
Call for Nominations for Board of Directors
Faces & Voices Board of Directors’ nominating committee is calling for nominations for service on its board. The deadline for applications is Saturday, May 15, 2010. Application materials are now available. Learn more…
Rally for Recovery! 2010
We’ve heard from many groups around the country who have exciting plans for September 25, 2010 Rally for Recovery! and Recovery Month events. Email us to join our monthly organizing calls and learn about ideas for building your event this year!
A&E Recovery Project Delegate Nominations
May 28, 2010 is the deadline for the 2010 Recovery Delegate selection process to identify Recovery Delegate from each of the 50 states and Washington, DC. Learn more…
US Recovery Delegates
2008 and 2009 Recovery Delegates came together to form the US Recovery Delegates as a project of Faces & Voices. They welcome opportunities to serve as a resource and state contact for expanding opportunities for recovery, including speaking opportunities. If you’re looking for speakers or have any questions about the US Recovery Delegates, please contact them individually or as a group.
Science of Addiction & Recovery Training
Faces & Voices is partnering with recovery community organizations around the country to hold our Science of Addiction and Recovery trainings this spring and summer. Register today! for the Aurora, CO training, St. Louis, MO, Austin, TX and Las Vegas, NV trainings. The Lorain, OH training is closed. A DVD of the training is also available.
Practicing Physicians Can Combat Addiction and Promote Lifelong Recovery
Practicing Physicians Can Combat Addiction and Promote Lifelong Recovery by Robert DuPont, M.D. and William L. White, M.A. offers seven prescriptions on how physicians can help their patients resolve alcohol, and other drug-related problems. Jane Pressly of FAVOR SC is working with her local medical society to get this article published in their medical society newsletter. Dr. Dupont and William White have left the article in the public domain so that you can ask your local medical society to publish it as well.
Resources
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Recovery Coach Academy May 10-14, 2010.
White Bison’s Wellbriety Training Institute in Colorado Springs, CO has May and June Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps for Recovery Coaches coming up.
Families USA’s Health Reform Central is a new website with detailed information on implementation of health reform with state-specific information and resources.
What resiliency research teaches us: The larger recovering community plays a critical role in supporting individuals' recovery, is by Bruce A. Campbell, who helped organize and is the current Chair of the Bangor (ME) Area Recovering Community Coalition.
Lapse and Relapse: Is it time for new language? by William L. White & Sadé Ali, discusses two words — lapse and relapse — that the authors argue are rooted in moral and religious conceptions and should be replaced with terms that are morally neutral and precise and that more aptly depict the processes involved in the experiences of people with alchol and other drug problems who resume use following voluntary periods of sobriety.
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