The Recovery Bill of Rights
is a statement of the principle that all Americans have a right to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Learn more…
Recovery Voices Count 2010 Wrap Up
Please see the resources below to learn more about our 2010 campaign.
Home 
About Organizing Tools Resources In Action!
Thanks to all of the organizations and individuals that participated in this year’s successful Recovery Voices Count campaign! A special thanks to Campaign Coordinator Naomi Long, who worked intensively with recovery community organizations in Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia on their campaigns.
Recovery Voices Count activities focused on three areas: voter registration, voter and candidate education, and Election Day participation. Organizations around the nation built the campaign into existing events and programs as well as organizing specific activities.
View highlight’s from Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR) Recovery Voices Count campaign and a video of MOAR’s Motorcycle Ride for Recovery including civic engagement activities.
Voter Registration: Over 2,000 voters were registered at recovery rallies, recovery community centers, picnics and other activities. In Ohio, a treatment center began registering voters and will continue to do so throughout the year.
Minnesota Recovery Connection registered voters
FAVOR Greenville, SC’s Recovery Festival 2010 included voter registration activities.
In Richmond, VA, the McShin Foundation registered voters at this year’s Barbeque Cook-Off
Voter and Candidate Education and Engagement: Events ranged from Recovery Walks to pool parties and Candidate Forums. Vermont’s Gubernatorial Town Hall meeting at the Burlington, VT Turning Point Recovery Community Center was covered live by Vermont Public Radio and next day in local newspapers. In Kentucky, Singing for Democracy gospel concerts organized by Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and supported by People Advocating Recovery, mobilized voters to go to the polls.
Former Felon Voter Mobilization Phonebank
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth leader Tayna Fogle organized a voter mobilization phone bank in Lexington staffed by an incredible 35 former felons who came from Lexington, Georgetown, and Nicholasville. Together, they called over 700 people who have signed postcards to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society. Learn more...
Ohio Citizen Advocates produced the 2010 Ohio Voter Guide and NCADD- New Jersey produced the 2010 New Jersey General Election Guide informing about the positions that candidates for office were taking on issues of importance to the recovery community.
Election Day Participation: Registered voters were encouraged to exercise their rights at the polls through newsletter blasts, mass emails to coalition listservs and other online communications. These Get-out-the-Vote activities were directed to newly registered voters and the larger membership.
Recovery Voices Count 2010 helped build new relationships between the recovery community and other organizations and constituencies. Some of the partnerships included the League of Women Voters; Medical University of South Carolina (FAVOR South Carolina); Temple University and Drexel students (PRO-ACT); and (Shelbyville, KY) Christians United Against Drugs.
