National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
(Recovery Month) is celebrating its 20th year of observance this September, (our 3rd year). This year’s theme, “Join the Voices for Recovery: Together We Learn, Together We Heal” emphasizes the need to use all available resources, both in our communities and on the internet, to educate people about the dangers of addiction, seek help, and heal. It also celebrates those who have worked to advance the treatment and recovery landscape, Recovery Month is designed to help people understand there is hope and that help for alcohol and drug use disorders is effective and available.
This year’s event will be on Saturday. September 12, 2009 at Veterans Park (corner of Henderson and Newcomb) in Porterville, CA. Our goal is to plan and implement a coordinated public/private effort to bring awareness of the dangers of driving under the influence to the communities in Tulare County.
In order to raise funds to coordinate this event FADD will be selling tickets with a $5.00 pledge per lap around the park. We will also be distributing educational and awareness materials from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), our partner. To see our event posted please visit www.recoverymonth.gov, our event ID number is 165.
FADD will also be seeking sponsors to partner with to print T-shirts for this event. We will also be accepting donations and seek a few volunteers to help us with this effort. For those who would like to get involved please contact Robert Ybarra at the phone number above or you may email me at fadd@att.net. Thank you very much for supporting our 2009 “ARRIVE ALIVE’ campaign.
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