How Can I Advocate For Recovery ?

Описание: In this incisive and eloquent short film, Stuart Smith founder member of the Foundation For Recovery (FFR), describes how people in recovery can participate in advocating for recovery. He believes that in 2018, to criminalise and stigmatise those suffering from health conditions such as addiction and mental health is deeply misguided. Neither condition is a moral deficiency or a choice. The time has come for a profound change in how we view and treat both phenomena. The time has come for the recovery community to make its voice heard.

One of the challenges that stops some people in recovery joining the advocacy movement is their fear that they will be seen as breaking the anonymity of their recovery path. But by finding our voices as people in recovery, we can maintain a discrete silence on just what path or tradition has been our way, and speak out on the desperate need to reduce the stigma around addiction and mental health issues.

On a national level, Faces And Voices Of Recovery offers excellent training tools and tips for those seeking to advocate for recovery. Reporters tend to want to hear our war stories about the horrors of addiction. By sharing about the positives that blossom in our lives in recovery, we change the tone of the discourse. Alongside this are a number of local Recovery Community Organisations which can usually be found via an internet search. They offer a great path in into recovery advocacy, often with training and fellow advocates. And if there isn’t an RCO in your locality, why not try and start one?

Many recovery organisations will also engage with political candidates at presentations and in a variety of forums to question them on the candidate’s commitment to supporting recovery. This offers an effective way to raise the profile of treating addicting and mental health and engaging with the recovery community.

If your primary area is mental health, an excellent national organisation is the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). NIMH is an organisation dedicated to research and education focused o the understanding, treatment and advocacy for those suffering from mental health issues.

September in the USA is recovery month, and looking at recoverymonth.gov will clue you up on the schedules and rallies happening, and offer tips on how to start your own event.

Support for recovery saves lives. Let’s make our voices heard.

Stuart Smith is a founding board member for the FFR (Foundation For Recovery), and CEO of the parent company of LVRC (Las Vegas Recovery Center) and CRP (Central Recovery Press). He is a passionate recovery advocate and a respected treatment professional. He is also a long-term, and engaged, member of the recovery organisation that has been his recovery pathway since 1983. For more on the work of these organisations, please see the links below.

For information on FFR, please see https://www.forrecovery.org

For information on LVRC, and their family and inpatient programs, please see https://lasvegasrecovery.com


For information about the work of CRP, please see: https://www.centralrecoverypress.com


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