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 - June 23, 2010
Online Guide to Mutual Aid Resources launched
Check out our new and updated Guide to Mutual Aid Resources featuring over 50 mutual aid groups. Find out about the many varieties of online and in-person mutual aid groups. A special thanks to the committee that has worked so hard to develop and maintain this resource.
Wednesday, June 23 National Call-in Day
Today is the National Call-in Day to Support Senate Passage of S. 714, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act. Join us in calling the US Senate leadership to encourage Senate passage of this important legislation. Learn more...
Wellstone-Domenici law victory!
A legal victory in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia moves us one step further in implementing the Wellstone-Domenici law. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has dismissed the lawsuit brought by some managed behavioral health care organizations who unsuccessfully argued that the regulations issued in February violated the original intent of the law. The regulations are scheduled to go into effect for plan years beginning July 1, 2010.
Recovery Community Organization News
People Advocating Recovery (PAR) in KY was part of a successful broad-based alliance of over 60 organizations supporting the rights of a woman who had been arrested and prosecuted for “wanton endangerment of a child” for becoming a mother while addicted to drugs. The victory came in a ruling by The Kentucky Supreme Court, dismissing charges brought against the mother. Learn more…
What’s your vision for recovery-oriented care for women?
Please take a minute to fill out this survey to inform a session organized by Niki Miller, Sherri Green and Stephanie Covington at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s Fourth National Conference on Women, Addiction and Recovery: Thriving in Changing Times. You can respond until July 6, 2010. Thank you!
Recovery Voices Count
Upcoming events: The Turning Point Center of Chittenden County, VT will be hosting a Candidates for Governor Forum on June 23, 2010. The Town Hall Meeting will begin with comments from each of the candidates for Governor and will be moderated by Bob Kinzel of Vermont Public Radio or Mark Ames of the Vermont Recovery Network. Find out more about Recovery Voices Count here.
Resources
Addiction, Families and Recovery: Strategies and Tools for Faith Leaders and Other Pastoral Ministers is a free webinar sponsored by The Clergy Education and Training Project® of The National Association for Children of Alcoholics. Register and mark your calendar for June 29, 2010 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern to hear from Rev. Dr. Fred Douglas Smith, Jr. , Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC, Rev. Doug Ronsheim, D.Min., American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Ivette A. Torres, SAMHSA/CSAT.
New England Alliance for Addiction Recovery’s Second Annual conference, Celebrating Our Wellness, Recovery for a Lifetime, will be on August 7 and 8, 2010 in Nashua, New Hampshire.
“On the Trail to Freedom,” the 9th annual Association of Recovery Schools Conference will be held at Northeastern University in Boston July 21-23, 2010. Find out more and register online.
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