Engage

Advance your recovery. Move to the next level. Engagement within our recovery community is easy, takes many forms, and offers purposeful ways to advocate, educate, act, and learn more about how to make recovery support services more accessible, understood, and funded.

Annual Signature Event

Recovery Leadership Summit (RLS)

Bringing people together moves us all forward. With your support, we connect recovery community organizations around the world to help grow the ways all recovery is understood and promoted through advocacy, education, action, and leadership.

Every June, Faces & Voices of Recovery hosts its flagship leadership conference. RLS is sponsored by major national recovery and wellness-centered organizations and attended by addiction field experts, peer support professionals, and industry giants like SAMHSA. The location alternates every year between Washington, D.C. and other major cities across the U.S.

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Annual Signature Event

America Honors Recovery (AHR) Gala Dinner

The AHR Gala Dinner is an annual event hosted during Recovery Month. The gala is an opportunity for recovery professionals to network and dine with change-makers and celebrate the broader progress we’ve made as a community. AHR recognizes individual trailblazers who make it their mission to de-stigmatize addiction and normalize recovery.

National

Recovery Month | SamHSA

Recovery Month celebrates the gains made by those in recovery from substance use and mental health, just as we celebrate improvements made by those who are managing other health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease.

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Annual Signature Event

Recovery Month luncheon

The Recovery Month luncheon is held every September in honor of National Recovery Month, an annual observance dedicated to people with lived experience around substance use and mental health disorders. The luncheon is held in Washington, D.C., in the presence of leaders in the recovery field and advocates pushing for policy change and legislative inclusion on Capitol Hill.

Annual Signature Event

Rally for Recovery

The Rally for Recovery is an annual event organized by people in long term recovery from a substance use disorder, their families, and friends. It is primarily a community building effort; we seek to strengthen the bonds between people in recovery, their families and friends and our community.

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Annual Signature Event

International Recovery Day

International Recovery Day connects the dots between all folks in recovery – from all recovery pathways – all around the globe – all in one day: September 30th.

Get Involved

Events

Get into the action. Access a calendar full of in-person and virtual events aimed at moving recovery support services and organizations forward through advocacy, education, and action.

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Memberships

Just as different paths lead us to recovery, different paths lead us to Faces & Voices of Recovery membership. Choose one that suits you and add your voice to the movement.

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Latest News

Learn what’s happening at the forefront of substance use and recovery initiatives and hear about research from leading voices in your recovery community and around the world.

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Support our Effors

Help us promote the reality of recovery. Your generous gift will help make long-term recovery accessible to everyone and sustain our ongoing recovery initiatives.

Seek Local assistance

Recovery Groups

Find out about the growing number and scope of volunteer recovery mutual aid groups.

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Resources

Recovery Resource Library

Find what you need to help move recovery initiatives forward in your community. Access, support, and contribute to our vast collective experience, expertise, and education.