April 4, 2001

h MOAR will Apply with NEAAR for CSAT RCSP Grant

h MOAR’s Diane Kurtz and Tanyss Martula to Present at CSAT RCSP Forum

h CSAT National Recovery Month Planning – www.health.org/recoverymonth/2001

i NEIAS Summer School- Recovery Community Track- June 10-15

i CORI Public Health Council April 24^th Deliberation- to be rescheduled

i Springfield ~ Plan: Addiction Recovery Seminar for The Medical Community, Focus:

Adolescents, April 26, 5:30 to 7:15 PM, Phoenix House, 5 Madison Ave.

i Lowell ~ Planning Meeting for Addiction Awareness Roundtable Discussion,

April 27, 10:30 AM to Noon, Mercier Center, Lowell

i Boston ~ CSAT Grant planning and Recovery Month

May 2nd, 3:30 PM to 5:15 PM, Atrium II, Faulkner

h Boston- Board Meeting- April 23, 1:30 to 3:00PM, Atrium II, Faulkner

i New Bedford ~ A Little MOAR introduction during Task Force meeting

Wednesday, April 25, 3:15, Prevention Partners,360 Coggeshall St

Planning for a MOAR Kickoff Mtg- May 9, 6:00 PM, Reflections House

i Worcester ~Meeting with plans for action– Refreshments sponsored by

by AdCare Hospital. Tuesday, May 15, 6:45 PM to 8:10 PM, 107 Lincoln St.

h Counselor Positions , Boston Medical Public Health Center, call: 617-534-4325

h Boston Consortium for Families in Recovery Grant Participant Interviewers-

You will be paid Call: New England Research Institute, 617-923-7747, extension 347.

h Counselor Positions, Brandon Treatment Center, Call Marilyn Feldman, 508-655-6400

The next Public Health Council meeting might be May 22^nd. Please know that it is The Executive Office of Health and Human Services that makes the final ruling. Collaborations to address the CORI and its implications are forming.

March 29th, Springfield – Focus – Educating Communities, Making Change Diane Teta, Donna Rivest, Bill Sciturro, Diane Kurtz, Roberta Evans, Elaine Clark, Maryanne Frangules and Jack Russell followed up on plans to do outreach to the medical community. The Holyoke Hospital Grand Rounds Presentation will probably take place in the fall. The Interagency Youth Task Force facilitated by BSAS Regional Director Ruth Jacobsen Hardy. Treatment gaps, Insurance Coverage, Crisis Team deficits were highlighted-and next step – steps to address the concerns. One step might be in our CSAT grant proposal to develop recovery community assessment tools, social marketing, and

public forums to address youth and family services, needs, policies. Everyone wanted to include policymaker education training. Next meeting – Recovery Month Plans.

Kattie Portis, , Mayor Menino’s SA Policy Advisor. shared MOAR’s interest in developing a citywide meeting on addiction recovery, to unite the neighborhoods. Kattie noted all have the same concerns and are taking steps to support addiction recovery. Attendees, Ray Hoitt, Julia Sheehan, Kim Holt, Jennifer Tripp, Connie Peters, Natalie Zaremba, Ellen Radis, Carol Carey, Greg Arsenault, John Frazier, Harvey Fleishman, Joe kelleher, Susan DeColaines, Lisa Midwood validated a united recovery community action plan. This led to reviewing the CSAT grant application with NEAAR, and MOAR’s goal of improving family/youth services and policies. This connects with

National Alcohol Screening Month partnering with MBHP to do recovery community advocacy outreach to parents of adolescents, who are in MBHP contracted services. MBHP’s goal is to promote alcohol and drug screening, as an intervention measure- as well as client advocacy. Diane Kurtz wrote the outreach promotional.

Attendees focused on their current energetic list of activities, and ways MOAR would be valuable. MOAR is on the agenda- April 25th, 3:15. MOAR has, also, met with Reflections, PAACA, and Treatment on Demand. Plans are in the works to formalize MOAR in New Bedford. Please come May 9^th, 6 PM, Reflections, 497 Belleville Ave.

Patrice Muchowski, AdCare Hospital, Clinical Services Vice President, Rich Harris,

AdCare Community Relations, Ray Kosinski BSAS Regional Director, Leroy Kelly MOAR President, MOAR members Diane Kurtz and Louis Caplan spearheaded

lively discussion. Attendees shared need to address prison transition, CORI, housing, adolescent, family, and women services plus respect for cultural differences. All emphasized a goal of becoming visibly strong as advocates –and would like to do a Recovery Walk! We thank AdCare Hospital for their support. .

MOAR Sincerely, Maryanne Frangules, MOAR Project Coordinator, 617-423-6627