CELEBRATION OF RECOVERY!

September has been designated as national recovery month, yet we are not aware of any significant events or activities in the Louisville area to commemorate or celebrate the miracle of our recovery.

We are hoping to start now and create a large community celebration to commemorate and celebrate recovery month for September 2007.

Planning and organizing a large community festival on this scale takes a lot of planning, and to make it happen we need several people to help us plan and organize a large festival like celebration of recovery to be held next September.

Anyone interested in helping should attend the meeting of the Louisville recovery advocacy group which meets the 2nd Thursday of every month at 5:15 at the Healing Place administrative offices at 1030 West Market Street. (The Healing Place)

 

Treat addiction as a mental disorder and not a crime:

There is a grassroots effort underway that is advocating for treating addiction as a mental disorder and not a crime.

If grassroots support exists, we will raise awareness and advocate for changes to laws in Kentucky, for example: drug and alcohol felons should be given a chance for treatment before prison as is the case in California.

Also we will explore changes to Kentucky law that would create a process that would allow drug and alcohol felony convictions to be dropped from a person's record after some period of time in recovery.

Anyone who has a passion for helping to reform corrections and enforcement practices needs to show their support for this initiative to survive.

Anyone interested and especially those of us who have drug or alcohol felonies is asked to show their support by attending organizational meetings that are currently being held the 2nd Thursday of every month at 5:15 at the Healing Place administrative offices at 1030 West Market Street. (The Healing Place)