Safeguarding Lived and Living Experience in Public Discourse
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The Lived Experience Safeguard Guide and Scale, were created to address the need to better protect individuals with lived experience in public disclosure. In a world where personal stories of recovery and substance use disorder can provide invaluable authenticity and depth to projects, campaigns, and articles, it's essential that we handle these narratives with care. When shared appropriately, these stories can build empathy, heal wounds and bridge the gap between knowledge and action. Yet, when stewarded inappropriately in the digital age, these narratives of lived and living experience can intensify stigma, misrepresentation and harm, commodifying and tokenizing the very individuals that these stories are about.
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The guide and corresponding scale provide a practical approach for better protecting individuals with substance use disorder in public disclosures. They prioritize equitable decision-making and stress the importance of respectful treatment, empowerment, and genuine representation. This ensures an accurate portrayal of individuals' addiction journeys. The guide advocates for an affirmative orientation, promoting strengths-based content that focuses on change actions, treatment, and recovery. It also emphasizes the need for a continued focus on recovery, rather than sensationalizing disease progression to foster unity and highlight the human capacity for growth and positive change.
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Increasing Recovery Consciousness
Grounding Systems in Recovery
This publication offers strategies for government agencies to build recovery-rich communities, using lived experience as the frame. The brief includes solutions that can be implemented over the short and long-term to maximize existing resources. The goal is to rapidly improve access to recovery support services at a time of rising demand and promote strategies that will have long-term, enduring impact.
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APRIL 17
Peer Recovery Support Specialists:
Re-Examining Urgency and the Desire to Save, Fix, and Help
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Peer Supervisors
Centering Peer Values in Supervisory Practices
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Collegiate Recovery Week!
The Association of Recovery in Higher Education (ARHE) was founded on April 15, 2010 and has since recognized April 15th as Collegiate Recovery Day. ARHE will kick-off the week with a special webinar and exciting announcements from the ARHE community.
Join on Zoom @ 2pm ET, April 15, 2024
(Zoom ID: 881 7927 8498 • Password: 046114)
Collegiate Recovery Week is an opportunity to host events on campus, celebrate the joys of recovery, share stories, and uplift one another through community!
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Recovery Talk Podcast:
Organizational Stakeholders of the Month, Vol. 16
This month, we are bringing you another episode filled with conversations with some of our organizational stakeholders. I had the privilege of talking with Chrystal Cantrell of Take Action Today, Dana Smith of New Life II, and Darrell Keim of Latah Recovery Community Center. Get ready to hear from some incredible people doing incredible things. And without further ado, let’s get talking!
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The Peer Recovery CoE, along with our Steering Committee member, Michael King, are pleased to announce our latest Organizational Stakeholders of the Month! Each month, we will select a few of our stakeholders in order to highlight their incredible work at our monthly stakeholder calls, in the newsletter, and our podcast. Learn more about our featured stakeholders below.
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The Colorado Drug Policy Coalition (CODPC) advocates for drug policy based on science, guided by public health best practices, and rooted in the principles of harm reduction. As a Policy Advocate for the CODPC, I use my living and lived experience to advocate for anti-carceral drug policy and also use my training as a Colorado Peer and Family Specialist to promote equity, diversity and inclusion principles within behavioral health and criminal legal community-engaged research.
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A special thank you to Betsy Craft for sharing her story: "Five years ago many people would not have thought I was worth saving, I was unhoused, in and out of jail and sober living, and had overdosed over 12 times in 10 months. If it was not for the HRAC and my MOUD Doctor at the Stout Street Health Center LITERALLY keeping me alive and loving me at my worst and treating me like a valued human being; I would not be alive, nor would I have the opportunity to become the woman, fierce advocate, and community leader I am today. I was just as lovable then, as I am now! I am a non-abstinent, lovable human who is on a self-discovery journey. I don't define my existence using harmful terms like "recovery" "addict" "rock-bottom" etc." Congrats Betsy, we love having you on board!
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Congratulations to Denver County Court and Wendy Sachs for presenting on our monthly stakeholders call. Wendy shared that Denver County Court is expanding their reach to clients who are in the court system by offering support services via video conferencing. Ms. Sachs believes they are doing groundbreaking work with this peer model imbedded in the court system as peers are now actual Officers of the Court, she hopes to make others award of this model. Wendy shares that being a peer in a larger system can be lonely and frustrating, but it is one of the most effective avenues for change. Thanks so much Wendy!
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Recovery Related News, Events & Resources
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April is Minority Health Month. (click on image for resources)
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Funding for this initiative was made possible by grant no. 1H79TI083022 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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