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 - May 18, 2009
PRO-ACT Receives 2009 Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award
Faces & Voices of Recovery honors Pennsylvania Recovery Organization – Achieving Community Together (PRO-ACT) in 2009 because it embodies the power of the organized recovery community. Learn more...
Rally for Recovery
- May 22 is the extended deadline for people interested in applying to represent their state as a recovery delegate at the 2nd Brooklyn Bridge Recovery Rally. Click here to apply.
- Join our organizing network to plan your Rally for Recovery! The first call will be on May 28. Email us if you’d like to participate!
- The federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is hosting a series of webcasts as part of the 20th anniversary of Recovery Month. Learn more…
- US Representatives Mary Bono Mack and Patrick Kennedy introduced a Congressional Resolution about Recovery Month. Learn more…
Wellstone/Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
The federal government is seeking public comment, called a Request for Information, as it develops regulations for implementation of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. Learn more…
President Obama's FY 2010 budget plan
The President has released his budget plan for FY 2010, calling for an overall increase in funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The proposed budget calls for $5.236 million in funding for the Recovery Community Services Program, which would provide funding for a new round of grants. Learn more…
Resources
“HOW-TO” RECOVERY RESOURCE MAPPING: What resources are there in your community to support long-term recovery? What resources are needed? A new article by by Rhonda Johnson, Nelson Martin, Timothy Sheahan, Fred Way, and William White, Recovery Resource Mapping: Results of a Philadelphia Recovery Home Survey, is a great resource for mapping, understanding and planning recovery-friendly communities.
People Advocating Recovery, Kentucky’s statewide recovery community organization, is collaborating with other organizations to host a series of “Know Your Rights” trainings. For more information on the trainings and background materials from the Legal Action Center, go here.
The American Association for the Treatment of Opiod Dependence (AATOD)’s April 2009 conference’s focus on recovery using medications included plenary remarks from Bill White, “The Recovery Paradigm and the Future of Medication-assisted Treatment,” many individuals using medication in their recovery; and well-attended workshops by medication-assisted recovery advocates. Faces & Voices board member Walter Ginter received the Richard Lane Advocacy Award.
Your Story Matters in New York State: Governor David A. Paterson proclaimed May 4 as Your Story Matters Day, encouraging people in recovery, their families, friends and loved ones to share their addiction recovery stories to raise public awareness and understanding about the reality of recovery. Learn more…
Recovery stories on TheSecond Road: During April, Alcohol Awareness Month, the Second Road featured daily recovery stories from people in recovery. A wide variety of voices were represented in this month long salon: women, men, teenagers, spouses, professional clinicians, and the newly detoxed. The month-long showcase offers hope and inspiration to those seeking or newly in recovery.
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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