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2004 LOUISIANA Recovery Day!
September 18--Mark your Calendar!
Celebrate National Recovery Month-

WeRecover Louisiana ( www.werecover.org) announces the opening of our New Orleans Planning office for SoberJam 2004! 

Louisiana RECOVERY Day For Information specific to this all day friends and family event go to www.SoberJam.com updates on performers, sponsors, and details for September 18, will continue to be posted.  

Also, make sure you are signed up for recovery advocacy at www.werecover.org

Recovery Town Hall Meetings- check for your area's meeting mark the date
Last year, people were amazed that members of the recovering community put together a 5,000 person event in Baton Rouge Louisiana. It was a one of a kind celebration. Our steering committee made all the difference- and it was an incredible experience for all attending!

This year, we are planning for over 10,000 people in New Orleans!  We are already hearing from people from around the country who will be visiting with us this year.  Let's get organized and do something amazing...again!   If you are close to New Orleans and want to pull up your sleeves and get involved and join our "steering committee" that is organizing and planning then please  contact us!


Last week we reviewed plans with New Orleans groups working in collaboration see their professional organization, their Executive Director will be working with us on our steering committee Welcome to SASA! http://www.sasagno.org/

Rep Broome Speaker Pro Tempe of the House of Representatives has filed a joint Resolution with the legislature declaring September Louisiana Recovery Month, and Recognizing SoberJam as the statewide event celebrating and recognizing recovery across the state!
Thank you Representative Broome!  Please take a moment and write her, larep029@legis.state.la.us thanking her strong support for recovery in Louisiana.

Any person or organization who wants to get involved we need you!
Sign up online for Booths, as a Volunteer, or as a partner GET INVOLVED  Recovering Community Town Hall Meetings and Professional Community Service meetings to be held this year in each region of the state.  We are going to work harder this year to bring ease to this event by scheduling the Recovering Community, meetings separate from those in the professional field, after "work hours"


 

Sign the Lisa Laws Petition

What are the Lisa Laws?  more here


ARTICLE on the Innovative work we are all doing in Louisiana-



Samantha-Hope Atkins  (Recovery) and Sharon Ayers (Prevention)

Marin Institute Article on Recovery and Prevention making real progress, with very real problems in Louisiana.

The Marin Institute is focused on on very real information for those working to reduce the harms of alcohol in their communities.  The environmental policy work they support, took interest in the work and direction that "traditional" prevention brings to the new frontiers in the Recovering Community!

We thank Laurie Lieber, and the staff at the Marin Institute for her time and effort in traveling down to Louisiana and assisting with our efforts to push for real change that impacts real people in their daily lives.  We look forward to working with them on our National policy work!



NEW!!!! Recovery Rally 2004 Video!

NEED In Louisiana
Only 8% of Louisiana adult residents finding recovery support (Treatment) even less for youth, where

4.5% of Juveniles who need treatment for alcohol and other drugs find available services.

A mere 32 medical detox beds are available for 4.4 million residents,

 Clean up costs for the lack of treatment and prevention costs Louisiana more than $8 Billion annually in direct and indirect costs according to CASA.

Poverty, Illiteracy, Incarceration, Social Ills, directly impacting our communities, with unbelievable costs, both in the lives lost, and dollars spent. 

At the root of this plague, is America's number one public health problem, Addiction.  This brain disease impacts  1 in 4 Americans.  Substance Abuse and the crisis we face often don't appear as "addiction"-masked in community cycles of poverty, joblessness, foster care,  in need for treatment and prevention services must be realized, and addressed.  We must stop the cycle, and reach to those suffering with hope. 

Louisiana Recovery Rally April 23, 2004-
Action Supporting Recovery!
(May take up to 5 minutes to download-make sure your speakers are turned on!)