Recovery is the Message

Date: August 30, 2018

Time: 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.

Location: Susquehanna Workforce Center, 1275 West Pulaski Hughway, Elkton, Maryland 21921

Purpose : This workshop is based on the very successful Faces and Voices of Recovery workshop, "Our Story Have Power". Learn how to use messaging to tell your recovery story in any setting, an intimate setting or in a public forum. This training is invaluable and provides a powerful tool for any recovery peer in any behavioral setting. It provides a means to talk about recovery in a clear effective way and to provide understanding to others outside the recovery community to understand what recovery is and that it works.

Objectives: Participant will:

-Learn effective language and communication techniques and will be able to practice and be able demonstrate improved skills in telling their recovery stories by this interactive training.

Instructors: Brendan Welsh, CPRS, Director - Office of Consumer Affairs, Behavioral Health Adminsitration, Maryland Department of Health (MDH) and Chelsea Duett, Business Development Manager, Bowling Green Brandywine Treatment Facility

CEUs: This training provides 6 hours in the advocacy domain