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Supporting Recovery pamphlet is a guide for the friends and loved ones of a person suffering from addiction. It explains their role and provides suggestions for dealing with the recovery process and relapses.
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Upcoming Events
April 23-24, 2012
Vermont Council on Problem Gambling - Annual Spring Conference
Double Tree Hotel Burlington, VT Co-Sponsored by:
Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery,
Friends of Recovery-Vermont, Camp Daybreak Vermont Alcohol and Drug Information Clearinghouse, Vermont Recovery Network Coalition on Substance Abuse and Older Vermonters _____________
Friday May 4, 2012
from
7:30 AM to 4:00 PM at the Capital Plaza in Montpelier, VT
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT Presents Lisa M. Najavits, PhD, ABPP
Seeking Safety, Creating Change: Trauma, Substance Abuse, and Corrections ________________ Robert Whitaker to present at
Springfield College
in
St. Johnsbury Anatomy of an Epidemic: Rethinking Mental Illness and the Long Term Effects of Psychiatric Drugs Tuesday May 8, 2012
3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Registration Fee: $35.00
Fee for students with valid I.D. is $20.00
Space is limited. Registrations will be accepted & confirmed on a first-come, first-serve basis. Click here for Registration and Additional Information |
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Director's News
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Friends of Recovery - Vermont Receives BRSS-TACS Award for Health Care Reform
FOR-VT was among the eight winners of a BRSS-TACS Peer Run Organization/Recovery Community Organization Award.
Through SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy, the Center for Social Innovation has announced awards of $25,000 each to eight peer-run/recovery community organizations. These eight organizations will work within their states to increase public awareness about behavioral health services available through the Affordable Care Act.
FOR-VT, a program of the Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery, in collaboration with Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, has planned the following activities:
1) Create a statewide learning network: an online learning community that will link peer-run organizations and recovery community organizations with Vermont Health Care Reform resources and information that is relevant and accessible to people with co-occurring conditions (webinar, blog, interactive television, public access television, website page, peer-run newspaper, print publication)
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2) provide a recovery leadership skills training opportunity followed by a Community Listening Forum for recovery community members to have a meaningful role in discussions with key leaders about the Health Exchange Navigator Program.
Click Here for an exerpt of Friends of Recovery - Vermont's application
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Would you like recovery support services included in your health benefits package?
Share your Ideas at the Essential Health Benefits Listening Sessions and Public Hearing
This spring the Agency of Administration and the Green Mountain Care Board are seeking input from the public on the benefits to be included in design of a single payer system for Vermont. To that end, there will be a public hearing and a series of listening sessions held over the next few months.
Each individual wishing to speak will be given a set amount of time depending on attendance.
Please e-mail
SOV.HCR@state.vt.us
or call
Marisa Melamed at 802-828-2316
to sign up in advance.
For more information, Click Here
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Spotlight on Recovery
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The University of Vermont's Collegiate Recovery Community
In 2010 the University of Vermont's Collegiate Recovery Community was founded to address the unique needs of students in recovery from alcohol
 and other drug addiction. At that time, the resources for recovering college students were extremely limited. An interdisciplinary group of UVM staff
worked to develop a program they believed would support students in recovery; it was based on the importance of providing the following:
- A supportive environment/community within the campus culture that reinforces the decision to disengage from addictive behaviors;
- Educational opportunity alongside recovery support to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other;
- Accountability for recovering students that comes from self, peers, and higher education staff;
- A normative college experience for individuals in recovery apart from the culture of drinking/use that is present on today's campuses
 The CRC has evolved to include a one credit course, a minimum sobriety requirement, weekly community meals, attendance in recovery support meetings, participation in CRC activities, a CRC Facebook Community, optional recovery-based housing, and available recovery-based counseling.
For More Information about
UVM's Collegiate Recovery Community
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Innovative Programs
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Facetime
Centerpoint Adolescent Treatment Services and Turning Point Center of Chittenden County present Facetime.
If you work with (or are parents to)...
teens who like to find themselves in downtown Burlington...
who are struggling with substance abuse issues of their own...
or who are struggling with substance abuse or addiction within their families...
Check out this new resource. 
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Second Growth brings
Making Change training to Burlington
When: Friday, May 18th, 9-4pm
Where: Vermont Department of Health, 108 Cherry Street, room 2B, Burlington, Vermont (parking at garage across the street)
This training is for professional and volunteer staff interested in effectively working with youth on their substance abuse. The six hour training will explore the "Making Change" substance abuse support group model created and implemented by Second Growth. This model engages young substance abusers and their friends in a critical and user friendly dialogue about choices and the first stages of change. The workshop will provide practical framework for the sixty-minute, open ended weekly groups that deliver information, motivation, and peer support addressing some of the most critical issues of early recovery for young people. Specific scripts and other tools for engaging and retaining the most resistant young clients will be explored using "real world, right now" case studies.
Contact:
Barbara Farnsworth
802-295-9800
barbarafarnsworth@secondgrowth.org
www.secondgrowth.org
or Click Here for course and registration information
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