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NEWS & EVENTS
NEWS & EVENTS
- The 2012 Annual Silver Tea, Celebrating Women in Recovery. CLICK HERE for information. Thursday, May 17, 2012 from 12:30pm to 3:00pm at the Hall of Flags, The Maine State Capital Building CLICK HERE for additional information.
- “WHAT MAKES RECOVERY WORK”
Including the 2NDAnnual Lisa Mojer-Torres Recovery Advocacy Award luncheon. April 10, 2012 from 9:30 - 3:30 pm. Maple Hill Farm Conference Center, Hallowell, ME, Click here for program brochure
What makes recovery work? Research is underway to study people who are sustaining long-term recovery from alcohol and drug addictions. Come learn about Maine-based studies being done with recovering people as well as national perspectives about recovery research. This conference will explore some of the common background experiences of recovering people before and during recovery.
The Keynote Speaker, Anne Jennings, PhD, will present The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: The Role of Chronic Childhood Stress and Implications for Addiction and Recovery. The Adverse Childhood Study (ACE) is the largest study ever done to look at health, behavioral health and social effects of adverse childhood experiences over the lifespan. Findings are shifting traditional paradigms for understanding troubled children and adults and the difficulties they experience. When unaddressed, adverse childhood experiences have a significant graded relationship to the development of the most troublesome health, mental health, substance abuse, and social problems of today.
The morning session, Using Media to Promote Recovery, will feature a panel make up of members of the media and people in long-term recovery. Discussion will focus on how the media and the recovery movement can develop a partnership so that the media can get accurate information and view people in recovery as resources and people in long-term recovery can use the media to effectively promote and explain the recovery process.
We are pleased to host the presentation of the second annual Lisa Mojer-Torres Recovery Advocacy Award to a Maine advocate. This award highlights the efforts underway to reduce the stigma related to alcohol and drug addiction, and to support creation of a statewide recovery movement that includes all recovery pathways. Through this award, we celebrate the Maine pioneers who inspire hope by promoting that recovery is a reality in the lives of thousands in our state. It also honors the role of recovery advocacy as the catalytic ingredient needed to spark ROSC system development.
For detailed information about these sessions, visit http://www.neias.org/SATAdcal#Recovery2012