eNewsletter - March 28, 2007 ANNOUNCEMENT
Faces & Voices of Recovery Board of Directors Call for Nominations: Deadline for nominations March 31! Faces & Voices board’s nominating committee is calling for nominations for seven board openings: four regional representatives and three At-Large members. The board will elect new members at its May 10, 2007 meeting. More…
Addiction Recovery Insurance Equity Campaign
The first Congressional hearing in eight years on a bill to address insurance discrimination faced by people seeking help with addiction and mental illness was held on March 27th by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. Take action today by sending an email to your member of Congress and asking them to support H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007! More…
Take Action! Critical FY 2008 Budget Deliberations Underway
The US House and Senate have started to work on the spending bills for fiscal year 2008, which begins on October 1, 2007. Ask your US Senators and Representative to increase funding for critical alcohol and other drug research, prevention, treatment and recovery programs, including the Recovery Community Services program and Recovery Month. More…
Addiction and Recovery: Communities Take Action! update
Over 15,000 people attended over 500 house parties around the country on March 17th as part of the recovery community’s effort to bring the power and reality of long-term recovery to HBO’s Addiction! Thanks to recovery advocates around the country and a special thanks to the many residents of Oxford Houses who invited family and community members to come, watch the show and discuss it. We’re going to post pictures and reports from events, but wanted to let you know about a few of the highlights. Email us with reports and highlights from your events!
Incredible organizing drew 1,100 people to a premiere at the Byrd Theatre in Richmond, VA organized by the McShin Foundation and successful premieres featuring people in long-term recovery and their families on panels with elected officials, addiction treatment providers and researchers were held in Seattle, WA (Alliance for Recovery); Portland, OR (Recovery Association Project); Denver, CO (Advocates for Recovery); Columbus, OH (Ohio Citizen Advocates); Pittsburgh, PA (Message Carriers) among many others! Stay tuned for advocacy updates following up on HBO’s Addiction. More…
Sign up for Faces & Voices’ Recovery Advocacy Webinar Series
Peer Recovery Support is the third in our four-part series of “webinars” where you will have the opportunity to listen and participate in exciting online, hour long recovery advocacy trainings. Tune in to find out what they are, how they work, why they’re important to long term recovery on Saturday, April 21st More…
Second Chance Act advances
The House Judiciary Committee passed out H.R. 1593, “The Second Chance Act of 2007,” advancing this important bill to the next stage – a vote before the full House. A companion Senate bill is expected to be introduced shortly. H.R. 1593, which almost made it through in the final week of the last Congress, would reauthorize and revise an existing program within the Department of Justice, providing money to states for reentry programs, creating a federal interagency task force to study and coordinate policy, commission a number of research projects including a study of barriers in federal policy to successful reentry, and authorize grants from the Justice Department directly to nonprofits for reentry program.
RESOURCES
“Legal Barriers to Offender Reentry” is the American Bar Association Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions’ national conference to discuss ways in which the legal system hinders successful reintegration of individuals with conviction records. April 30-May 1, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.
“Spirituality Increases as Alcoholics Recover” is a new study from the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center which documents how spirituality changes during recovery from addiction to alcohol. More...
“A Voice for Change: The Tayna Fogle Story” brings recovery advocate and People Advocating Recovery leader Tayna Fogle to YouTube.
Bill W. and Dr. Bob, A New Play. In 1929, famous New York stockbroker Bill Wilson crashes with the stock market and becomes a hopeless drunk. Dr. Bob Smith, a surgeon from Ohio, has also been an alcoholic for thirty years, often going into the operating room with a hangover. Through an astonishing series of events, Bill W. and Dr. Bob meet and form a relationship, each helping to keep the other sober. This is the amazing and often humorous story of the two men who pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the story of their wives, who founded Al Anon. More...
