eNewsletter
June 14, 2010
America Honors Recovery awards announced; Rally for Recovery!; resources, 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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2010 Recovery Advocacy Teleconferences underway
Sign up today for the June 3, 2010 teleconference on the Recovery Voices Count campaign. Hear about successful 2008 campaigns and how to incorporate voter registration, education and get-out-the vote in your 2010 activities. Learn more…
ONDCP 2010 Drug Strategy Released
Faces & Voices applauds the release of the Obama Administration’s 2010 National Drug Control Strategy. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) director R. Gil Kerlikowske signaled a new direction in federal drug policy, that includes first-ever attention to addiction recovery and wellness. The strategy calls for support for and partnership with the over 20 million Americans in recovery from addiction. Faces & Voices looks forward to working with ONDCP’s recovery team to support opportunities for people in recovery and their families to press for consideration of recovery-oriented policies in communities and across all federal agencies. Learn more…
Faces & Voices staff
Faces & Voices is pleased to welcome Tom Hill and Whitney O’Neil to our staff. Find out more about them here. We also have an opening for a Program Assistant.
Rally for Recovery! and Recovery Month
Check out SPORTS-LINK: Recovery Community Activities with Baseball Teams and Other Sporting Events, our 2010 Organizing Tip No. 2. Sports-Link will be one topic for our May 27 Rally for Recovery! organizing call. Email us for more information.
The May 2010 Recovery Month web cast Maintaing Resiliency and Sustaining Recovery: Ensuring That Recovery Lasts a Lifetime features A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., Deputy Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; Pamela S. Hyde, J.D., Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Alexandre B. Laudet, Ph.D., Addiction and Recovery Scientist; and James Smallwood, Founder/CEO, The Choice Is Yours, Inc.
Run for Recovery/Run for the Children
We’re partnering with the National Association for Children of Alcoholics for the second year as charity partners in the Marine Corps Marathon and Marine Corps 10K on October 31, 2010 in Washington, DC. We’re excited to be partnering with the DC Recovery Community Alliance, Washington, DC’s recovery community organization. Find out more here.
Resources:
Minnesota Recovery Connection and Faces It! Sioux Falls have launched new web sites. Check them out!
Addiction and Art, edited by Patricia B. Santora, Margaret L. Dowell and Jack E. Henningfield, is a new book featuring the work of 61 artists selected from more than 1,000 submissions. They developed Guidelines for organizing addiction and recovery art exhibitions in a wide range of places like community centers, high schools and colleges, treatment and prevention programs.
The 4th National Conference on Women, Addiction & Recovery: Thriving in Changing Times will be on July 26-28, 2010 in Chicago. To find out about more about speakers, workshops, CEUs, and pay the reduced registration fees before June 1, go to their web site.
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