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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America Honors Recovery Award Recipients Announced!
The America Honors Recovery selection committee has announced the recipients of the Joel Hernandez and Vernon Johnson awards, recognizing 2010's most influential recovery community leaders and organizations. This year's Joel Hernandez Award recipient is the Association of Persons Affected by Addiction (APAA) in Dallas, Texas. The Vernon Johnson awardees are Earl Hightower (Hightower Intervention Services, Studio City, California), Art Zwerling (Anesthetists in Recovery, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) and Joe Powell of APAA. Read more...
Find out more about Recovery Voices Count!
Check out Getting Started on your 2010 Recovery Voices Count campaign teleconference, now available for listening online. Thank you to speakers Fred Martin of PRO-ACT and Aaron Kucharski of NCADD-New Jersey for sharing their experiences from 2008. Find out about this year’s Questions for Candidates, materials and strategies for making Recovery Voices Count.
Rally for Recovery! and Recovery Month
The next monthly Rally for Recovery! Organizing Network call will be on June 24th. Sign up to learn about developing sponsors and learn from other event organizers. Check out Minnesota Recovery Connection’s Rally (Caps) for Recovery Baseball game materials. For more information on doing a baseball event, you can use SPORTS-LINK: Recovery Community Activities with Baseball Teams and Other Sporting Events,
June 23 National Criminal Justice Commission Act Call-in Day
Mark your calendar for Wednesday, June 23 rd for a National Call-in Day to support the passage of the National Criminal Justice Commission Act this year! Learn more…
Resources
William White’s writings are now all available online at a newly-launched web site. We’ll continue to keep you posted about new resources.
Recovery researcher Bill White and Faces & Voices Executive Director Pat Taylor have recent posts on Of Substance BLOG, at the Office of National Drug Control Strategy.
Faces & Voices has been working with National Family Dialogue to develop teleconferences on national health reform, telling your story and other topics. The teleconferences are now available on line for listening and viewing the PowerPoint presentations.
Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Gene Green (D-TX) have introduced legislation to reauthorize the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
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