| NASADAD presentation on recovery community organizations
Thanks to the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors for the opportunity to speak at their recent conference about Faces & Voices of Recovery and recovery community organizations. Special thanks to Friends of Recovery VT Executive Director Patty McCarthy and Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Executive Director Phil Valentine for a terrific presentation. Profiles of Recovery Advocacy in Action
The fifth in our series of interviews with recovery advocates from across the country by Bill White and Pat Taylor features the President of People Advocating Recovery (PAR), Mike Barry. Learn more… Tom Coderre featured in Addiction Professional magazine
Faces & Voices of Recovery’s National Field Director, Tom Coderre, was interviewed in the May-June 2007 issue of Addiction Professional magazine. Learn more... Bill to rename NIDA and NIAAA moves forward
On June 27, 2007 the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee voted to approve S. 1011, a bill to change the name of the National Institute on Drug Abuse to the National Institute on Diseases of Addiction and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the National Institute on Alcohol Disorders and Health (“NIADH”). The next step will be consideration by the full Senate. Senate Appropriations Committee moves critical funding bills
The Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee marked up its version of the FY 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education bill on June 19, 2007. Its action was followed closely by full Appropriations Committee action on June 21, 2007. The bill includes the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Learn more… Organizing Rally for Recovery! and Recovery Month 2007
Faces & Voices is working with recovery community organizations across the country organizing September 15th Rally for Recovery! events during National Recovery Month observances. New tools including How to Organize a Recovery Walk; How to Organize a Town Hall meeting; How to Organize a Sports Event and How to Organize a State Level Civic Engagement Campaign are available on our web site. Resources
“Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care Environment “Toxic” for Persons in Recovery and Those Working in the Field” is the headline reporting on the findings of a report from the Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce, commissioned by federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Learn more…
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Outreach Partners Program invites applicants to submit proposals from organizations in: New York City, North Dakota, Puerto Rico, Southern California, Texas Border Region, and Virginia. Charitable non-profit organizations that conduct statewide or regional outreach that focuses on mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders interested in becoming Outreach Partners are invited to participate in this competitive process. Learn more…
Sentencing and Incarceration Alternatives Project funding opportunity from the Open Society Institute (OSI). Funds are available for grassroots/community-led advocacy, constituency-building and mobilization; coalition building; public education; impact litigation; policy-driven research and analysis; and leadership development. Learn more… | 
