eNewsletter: May 31, 2007

Denver, Colorado Message and Media Training Register today for Faces & Voices' training on June 22nd and 23rd sponsored with Advocates for Recovery. Scholarships available. 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. Would you like to share your recovery story for the 2008 observances? Email us. Participate in Memorial Day Insurance Equity Action! There are still a few more days left in the Memorial Day Congressional recess. Take one of four actions in our Memorial Day Insurance Equity Action campaign and bring fairness and equality to insurance coverage for addiction. Learn more… Resources The Summer 2007 issue of Recovery Solutions Magazine includes our interview with Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Executive Director Phillip Valentine and Faces & Voices’ messaging about long-term recovery. The Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center has released interviews on how states and cities are developing recovery-oriented systems of care in their jurisdictions. Read interviews with Tom Kirk and Arthur Evans. Bill White conducted these interviews that will be published as part of a monograph in June 2007. The Drug Policy Alliance has announced a $1.2 million Promoting Policy Change grant program, with a June 18, 2007 deadline for organizations working to educate the public and policymakers about the negative consequences of current local, state or national drug policies and promoting better awareness and understanding of alternatives to current drug policies. _________________________________________________________________________________________