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Community and media events are the cornerstone of National Recovery Month (Recovery Month); holding an event can be an exciting and important way to make a difference in your community. The impact your organization can have by spreading a lasting message of recovery throughout your community can be beyond measure.

Recovery Month events, no matter how large or small, can go a long way in promoting the benefits of recovery. Search for Events in your area below for examples of events of all sizes that resulted in the dissemination of positive and personal messages of recovery in communities across the country.

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• Pass It Forward Video Challenge...Say What? MD

  04/25/2013 2:00PM - 3:00PM
  Webinar that introduces the Pass It Forward Video Challenge, the SAMHSA-funded competition that invites young people, aged 18-25 to create a 2-minute video that uses social media to imaginatively promote use of selected prevention and recovery resources. Videos should answer the question, " What creative strategies can help ensure that selected web-based tools land in, and are used by college campuses (including healthcare professional students) and communities across the country?"
  http://www.recoverymonth.gov/Community-Events/2013/Pass-It-Forward-Video-ChallengeSay-What%3f-5483.aspx

• Pass It Forward Video Challenge Webinar 2-Take One! Creating Your Pass It Forward Video MD

  05/09/2013 2:00PM - 3:00PM
  During this 1-hour session, attendees will: -PARTICIPATE in a quick Webinar One recap. -GAIN a better understanding of how drug prevention and intervention-related messages can be effectively harnessed through video. -LISTEN to our Resident Videographer as she describes her production process, and learn how to translate the Pass It Forward Video Challenge requirements into a video. -REVIEW a few examples of powerful videos. -DISCOVER how they can connect the dots between the content of the selected online resources, video and social media. -GET the answers to production and content questions through our open mike.
  http://www.recoverymonth.gov/Community-Events/2013/Pass-It-Forward-Video-Challenge-Webinar-2-Take-One!-Creating-Your-Pass-It-Forward-Video-5490.aspx

• National Recovery Month: See HIV Clinical Guidelines MD

  09/01/2013 9:00AM - 09/30/2013 11:30PM
  The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute HIV Clinical Guidelines Program wants to take the opportunity of National Recovery Month to remind you of the many great resources that we have available online at www.hivguidelines.org for the treatment of HIV Infected Substance Users. The following clinical guidelines are available at www.hivguidelines.org:
  • •Substance Use Screening: A Quick Reference Guide for HIV Primary Care Clinicians
  • •What Are These Drugs?
  • •Screening and Ongoing Assessment for Substance Use
  • •Working With the Active User
  • •Substance Use Treatment Modalities for HIV-Infected Substance Users
  • •Clinical Management of Alcohol Use and Abuse in HIV-Infected Patients
  • •Smoking Cessation in HIV-Infected Patients
  • •Aspects of Primary Care for the HIV-Infected Substance User
  • •Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Substance Users
  • •Drug-Drug Interactions Between ARV Agents, Medications Used in Substance Use Treatment, and Recreational Drugs
  • •Pain in the HIV-Infected Substance User
  • •Mental Health Disorders Among Substance-Using HIV-Infected Patients
    http://www.recoverymonth.gov/Community-Events/2013/National-Recovery-Month-See-HIV-Clinical-Guidelines-5434.aspx

  • Recovery Festival MD

    09/14/2013 10:00AM - 2:00PM
    Recovery Festival 10am - 2pm. Activities for all ages. Opening ceremony with proclamation; music; art display; face painting; balloons; children's message; demonstrations and information; food
    http://www.recoverymonth.gov/Community-Events/2013/Recovery-Festival-5478.aspx
  
  
  
  

  Recovery Month promotes the societal benefits of prevention, treatment, and recovery for substance use and mental disorders, celebrates people in recovery, lauds the contributions of treatment and service providers, and promotes the message that recovery in all its forms is possible. Recovery Month spreads the positive message that behavioral health is essential to overall health, that prevention works, treatment is effective and people can and do recover.

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