1. www.silenttreatment.info debuts 2. Get your promotional materials 3. What if my newspaper is not a Knight Ridder/Tribune affiliate? 4. Silent Treatment reporters in the spotlight
1. www.silenttreatment.info debuts For information about the series, a wealth of links to and resources on prevention, treatment and recovery, tips and action ideas, visit the Silent Treatment Web site at www.silenttreatment.info, your one-stop source. There you’ll find easy-to-download sections of Breaking the Silence, the companion media guide to the series, as well as Recovery Radio broadcasts and our own “Living It” blog, which— starting May 1— will feature a rotating crop of writers candidly chronicling their recoveries. First up is 21-year-old Carrick Forbes, whose heroin addiction is documented by her father, Thom, on his website, “The Elephant on Main Street,” and was the subject of a 2005 “Dateline” segment. Look for other contributors later this year. Also available are web buttons and banners so that you can feature the Silent Treatment project on your website. To download, click here.
2. Get your promotional materials Make sure to get and use the promotional materials available to help plan your media strategy and link up with all Silent Treatment resources. We’ve mailed out informational Outreach Brochures and the Breaking the Silence media guide, and Silent Treatment logos, web buttons and banners for your Web site are now available. If you need more brochures and media guides, send an email to sroff@pajournalism.com with “material request” in the subject line. Please include a list of the materials you would like, your mailing address and a brief description of how you plan to use the materials. Or go to http://www.silenttreatment.info/downloads.htm for downloads.
3. What if my newspaper is not a Knight Ridder/Tribune affiliate?
4. Silent Treatment reporters in the spotlight Each month we’ll feature a reporter for the Silent Treatment series. The first story will be written by Thom Forbes. Thom, a fourth-generation journalist, began his career as a copyboy at the New York Daily News and later became a reporter and deskman there. He moved to Adweek in 1983, where he became editorial director of several magazines before turning to freelancing. Through the 1990s, Thom covered marketing issues, with an emphasis on writing about and for emerging new media. He also wrote What Were They Thinking? with new products expert Bob McMath, and authored WebWorks: Advertising. In recent years, he has been focused on health and social issues. He developed The Elephant on Main Street: An Interactive Memoir of Addictions and Recoveries chronicling his family’s first-hand experiences with addiction, and is writing Conversations With Dizzy with Dr. Harris B. Stratyner, a specialist in co-occurring disorders of addiction and mental illness. Thom lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., with his wife, Deirdre, a photojournalist turned addictions counselor, daughter, Carrick, 21, and son Duncan, 17.
http://www.silenttreatment.info features a "Share Ideas" section for outreach partners to share their outreach experiences, some of which will be chosen to appear on the Web site. Please visit http://www.silenttreatment.info and follow the Organizations/Share Ideas link. We are interested in hearing about the events you are planning and the ways you are using Silent Treatment to promote your work as well as track your success in engaging local newspapers.
Nearly 1,200 town hall meetings were convened on March 28 around the nation as part of a campaign to prevent underage drinking. The meetings were spearheaded by the Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking, chaired by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in partnership with state and local agencies and organizations. Meetings were held in all 50 states, four territories and the District of Columbia. To read the media release from SAMHSA, click here.
Coordination of substance abuse treatment in the juvenile justice system has improved significantly in 10 Reclaiming Futures communities, according to new research released by the Urban Institute and the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall Center for Children. Reclaiming Futures, an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a new approach to help teenagers caught in the cycle of drugs, alcohol and crime by promoting new opportunities and standards of care in juvenile justice. It is housed in the Regional Research Institute for Human Services of the Graduate School of Social Work at Portland State University. Reclaiming Futures combines system reform, treatment improvement and community engagement to help teens in the justice system get off drugs and alcohol. For additional information, visit http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/.
Check out our comprehensive calendar of treatment- and recovery-related events across the country at http://calendar.silenttreatment.info. Click any of the events to get more information and confirm dates and times. To have upcoming events included in our calendar, please send an email to sroff@pajournalism.com.
The American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence National Conference 2006 will be held April 22-26 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga. For more information, visit http://www.aatod.org/aatodnational.html.
April 5-8, the National African American Drug Policy Coalition (NAADPC) hosts its National Drug Policy Summit in Washington DC. For more information, visit http://www.naadpc.org/.
If you are in the New York City area April 4-9, plan to see “Visions,” at The Hudson Guild Theatre.
This play about addiction and recovery, which has reached more than
20,000 people in the hearts of treatment centers, shelters and prisons,
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