eNEWSLETTER 2 November 2007

Call for nominations We wish Faces & Voices board member and New England regional representative Rev. Hugh-Tudor Foley best wishes on his new assignment to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Yuma, Arizona. His move creates an opening on the Faces & Voices board of directors to serve out his term through July, 2009. The deadline for applications is December 5. Recovery Voices Count Our Recovery Voices Count campaign is underway. The 2007-2008 Recovery Voices Count Guide to Non-Partisan Civic Engagement lays out the non-partisan voter registration, voter education and Get-out-the Vote strategies that we will be working on over the next year to raise issues of importance to the recovery community in the 2007-2008 election cycle. We have a PowerPoint presentation that has everything that you’ll need to know to make Recovery Voices Count. Come join us and recovery advocates and allies on December 2nd in Plaistow, NH for a Presidential Town Hall meeting, “A Healthier and Safer New Hampshire: Solving our Alcohol and Drug Problem.” NCADD-New Jersey has released its excellent seventh annual voter education campaign, Decision 2007, which includes an election guide and candidate survey. The guide highlights important issues and encourages voters to educate themselves about issues and share their views with candidates for public office. Check it out! Insurance Discrimination Update Thanks to Faces & Voices board member William Moyers and David Wellstone, co-founder of Wellstone Action, for authoring, “Mental Illness and Addiction Don’t Discriminate, but Insurance Policies Do,” which appeared in The Hill, a publication widely read on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. And thanks to Bill Johnson, President of the Central Illinois Recovery Coalition (CILRC) in Springfield, IL and other advocates for getting your letters published in your local newspaper. No date has yet been set for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007. Faces & Voices’ interns Thanks to Holly Robertson who just completed her internship at Faces & Voices and welcome to Jennifer Taber, a senior at American University. Resources/Opportunities: Job Opening at the Legal Action Center for a Policy Associate for its Washington, DC office whose responsibilities will include advocacy and federal relations. Learn more… A 2005 national survey of participants in mutual-aid support groups by The Walsh Group found that active involvement in these groups improved individuals’ chances of sustaining their recovery. Learn more… White Bison's Wellbriety! Online Magazine for 2007 is now available. Voices for Recovery is a popular feature on the Recovery Month web site, where people can post their recovery stories so that others can learn about what recovery means to individuals in long-term recovery and their families. To post Learn more… Rally for Recovery! photographs are still coming in, check out what we’ve received so far! _____________________________________________________________________________