Faces & Voices of Recovery: Making Recovery Voices Count in 2012!

Addiction recovery is more than "just not using." As active citizens, we connect or reconnect with our communities. In our active addiction, many of us neglected our responsibilities, including participating in community life. At Faces & Voices of Recovery we are working to organize and mobilize the recovery community because by our silence we let others define us. We must hold elected officials and policy makers accountable, by informing them about the laws, rules and regulations that will benefit recovery and asking them to take a position on the issues that we care about.
- Steve Gumbley, Faces & Voices board chair

With the 2012 national elections approaching, recovery community organizations are getting ready to conduct voter registration and Get-Out-The-Vote activities, sponsoring candidate forums and getting candidates for political office on record about critical policies that will make recovery a reality for even more Americans. They are making RECOVERY VOICES COUNT as part of our 2012 Non-Partisan Civic Engagement campaign.

Use Faces & Voices of Recovery's new Guide and tools, including Questions for Candidates to educate candidates for public office about key issues and turn out voters in growing numbers so that we can have an even greater impact on the lives of people who still need help to recover and our communities.