5 Good Reasons to Attend the 2015 Recovery Rally | By Lael Ewy

2015 Recovery Rally:  September 25, 1:00-4:00 p.m. at the State Capitol, South Lawn in Topeka

1. It’s a great place to meet other recovery-minded people. We may not all have the same story, but sharing experiences of recovery and hope creates mutually-supporting networks that help make recovery possible for everyone!
2. It’ll be a star-studded event featuring Kansas’ own actor/producer/screenwriter David Dastmalchian, who has a recovery story of his own. In 2014, Animals the feature film he wrote and starred in, received a Special Jury Price for Courage in Storytelling at the South by Southwest Festival.      
3. It’s a great place to celebrate Recovery Month. Recovery Month (September) is a nationally-recognized time to come together and celebrate the victories of those living lives of recovery and their supporters.
4. All the cool kids will be there. The Recovery Rally brings together individuals and organizations who promote peer support and recovery-based work across the spectrum from small Consumer-Run Organizations to big Managed Care Organizations.
5. Your presence will make a difference. There’s no better way to express that we are the evidence that recovery is possible than to make our presence known. The national motto of this year’s Recovery Month is “visible, vocal, valuable,” and the Recovery Rally gives us a chance to tell the world.

And a special bonus reason for CROs. The Center for Community Support and Research will pay mileage for one vehicle per CRO to and from the Recovery Rally—yeah, we think it’s that important. Just RSVP me at lael.ewy@wichita.edu or Sam Demel at samuel.demel@wichita.edu at least a week before the rally (so, by Sept. 18) so we can file all the paperwork and stuff.