Recovery Rally, NYC, 09/12/09

What is the Recovery Rally?

A FREE public event to celebrate people in recovery and pay tribute to those who support them.

The rally features a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge to reinforce the message that anyone can cross their own bridge to recovery.

The celebration begins in Foley Square with live entertainment, guest speakers and celebrity appearances!

For more information, click here.

Overlap of Recovery volunteers and substance abuse professionals - What's the story?

In early February, 2009, Social Work Student, Deirdre Drohan Forbes went to the board meeting of Friends Of Recovery - NY in Albany, NY and she writes of her experience on her blog Midlife Musings and My Second Career. It is interesting reading that raises many interesting questions about the relationship between the growing recovery movement and the professional substance abuse field.

I recommend her article to you and you can access it by clicking here.

Benefits of recovery

Video lasts 3:13

Gratitude in recovery

We have such talented people on our staff at GCASA and I was able to interview one of them today, Jim Morasco.

Jim currently is the substance abuse counselor with the Co-location project in Genesee County. In the past, Jim has been the director of prevention, and he also is currently an ordained minister of the American Baptist Church having received his M.Div degree from Colgate in Rochester, NY in May of 2007.

Jim met with me and we talked for about 10 minutes about gratitude in recovery. The videos are in two parts.

Here is part one which lasts about 8:54.



Part two lasts 2:24