Recovery Voices Count Just in time for your Rally for Recovery! and other Recovery Month observances, we are pleased to bring you our new, 2007-2008 Non-partisan Civic Engagement Guide, Recovery Voices Count. Use the Guide to raise recovery issues and participate in our electoral process. There’s information on registering voters at your Rally for Recovery! event. We’ll have more information about ways to use the Guide to build civic participation and engagement in your organization and community over the coming months. Rally for Recovery! and Recovery Month 2007 Over 60 organizations are participating in this year’s Rally for Recovery! to speak out about the power and proof of long-term recovery and call for policies to support recovery. Advocates in New Jersey and New York are coming together on September 15th in a “hub event” to bring national attention to Rally for Recovery! In Maine, the Alliance for Addiction Recovery (MAAR) has arranged for three advocates to be featured on a radio 'public affairs' talk show on Citadel Broadcast stations that will run on Sunday mornings. Use our sample media advisory and press release to publicize your events and activities. Learn more… Profiles of Recovery Advocacy in Action The sixth in our series of interviews with recovery advocates from across the country by Bill White and Pat Taylor features Bev Haberle, Executive Director of the Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (BCADD). PRO-ACT, a grassroots recovery support initiative in Southeastern Pennsylvania, is a project of BCADD. Learn more… Resources In Search of the Neurobiology of Addiction Recovery: A Brief Commentary on Science and Stigma by William White, calls for a comprehensive recovery research agenda with a focus on the neurobiology of addiction recovery. Gender-specific Recovery Support Services: Evolution of the Women’s Community Recovery Center to the Women’s Recovery Community Center by Beverly Haberle and William White, describes the attempt of the Pennsylvania Recovery Organization-Achieving Community Together (PRO-ACT) to operate a gender-specific recovery home and a recovery support center within the same facility in New Britain, Pennsylvania. Recovery Solutions magazine features interviews with two Faces & Voices board members – Joe Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Persons Affected by Addiction and William Moyers, Vice President of Hazelden Foundation and author of Broken. The Substance Abuse Policy Research Program has called for proposals due by November 7, 2007 for research projects that address issues related to substance use, one of the most pressing public health problems facing our nation. Become a Founding Member! Dear Recovery Advocate, Thanks to your commitment and support, Faces & Voices of Recovery and our recovery advocacy movement continue to grow and make a difference in the lives of our families, friends and neighbors. In September 2006, we launched our founding member campaign, which runs through September 2007, Recovery Month. If you haven’t done so already, I urge you to become a founding member of Faces & Voices of Recovery Learn more…