Recovery Day 2021 - Recovery Vermont

Recovery Day 2021!

VERMONT IS RECOVERY STRONG

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Vermont Recovery Day on February 17, 2021. We are so grateful to the recovery community for coming together strong this year – virtually on Zoom! We want to thank Vermont’s Recovery Centers and all of the recovery resources throughout the state for coming together to make this day so powerful.

Our morning started by hearing remarks from Governor Scott who declared February 17 as Recovery Day in Vermont. We then heard from Kelly Morrill (ADAP), Attorney General TJ Donovan, Lt. Governor Molly Gray, Speaker of the House Jill Krowinski, and Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, who spoke about the power of recovery and their support of the work Vermonters are doing.

Later in the morning, we watched a creative rendition of the Governor’s Proclamation from the Turning Point Center of Springfield, and heard from recovery resources throughout the state, including those in housing, employment, corrections, and Project CARE. Four writers from Writers for Recovery shared powerful pieces, and we presented awards for the Lifetime Achievement to Bill Keithcart, the Legislative Champion to Rep. John Killacky, and the Jack Barry Award for Communication to Ed Baker.

We are so inspired by the work the recovery community continues to do, day in and day out. Your stories, your strength, and your dedication to helping others – to lift others up – is truly inspirational. Thank you, thank you, thank you. The gratitude is boundless.

– Your friends at Recovery Vermont

Watch Recovery Day 2021 Below!!

Click to download the chat messages during Recovery Day

Thank you to our Legislators!

We want to thank our Vermont State legislators for attending Recovery Day 2021! We’d like to thank Governor Scott for declaring February 17, 2021 as Recovery Day.

Senator Rebecca Balint

Speaker of the House Jill Krowinski

Attorney General TJ Donovan

Lt. Governor Molly Gray

Click to watch Governor Scott’s address

Thank you to ADAP & SAMHSA!

We are so grateful to have heard from Kelly Morill, from the Vermont Department of Health. We want to thank our partners Lori Uerz, Kelly Dougherty, and Cynthia Seivwright. We want to thank Enid Osborne and Tom Coderre from SAMHSA.

Writers for Recovery!

Gary Miller (left) and Bess O’Brien (right) from Writers for Recovery introduced the 4 fantastic writers who read at Recovery Day 2021. You can read all of their work here.

Ashlee Loyer

Johny Widell

Peter Fried

Nelly W

Congratulations to the 2021 Jack Barry Award winner!

Ed Baker accepting the Jack Barry Award on February 17, 2021 on Zoom.

2021 Award Winner: Ed Baker

Every year the Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery gives out the Jack Barry Communications Award during Recovery Day to an individual or group who has done a powerful job in communicating recovery. In 2021, the award was given to Ed Baker, a champion and advocate in recovery for over the past 36 years.

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Montpelier, VT 05602
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