Recovery Month Celebration on September 28th

In its 25th year, National Recovery Month promotes prevention, treatment, and recovery for mental and substance use disorders. This year’s theme, “Join the Voices for Recovery: Speak Up, Reach Out,” encourages people to speak up about mental and substance use disorders and promotes ways to recognize behavioral health issues and get help. Recovery Month spreads the positive messages that behavioral health is essential to overall health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people can and do recover.

Sonoma County has held Recovery Month celebrations for more than 20 years, often attended by more than 500 people. The 2014 event, hosted by the Department of Health Services’ substance use disorder programs in collaboration with local treatment providers, will take place Sunday, September 28, 2014 in Franklin Park, 2095 Franklin Drive, Santa Rosa. The event will host a BBQ/picnic as well as a softball tournament with the treatment providers. In addition to the picnic, local theaters may air “THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE,” a feature documentary film about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.

Find screening information at the ManyFaces1Voice website.