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Advocacy Guides
HOW TO’s and best practices on a variety of topics to help you successfully organize your community.

Building your advocacy base
Defining an Advocacy Base An advocacy base is a local core group of dedicated supporters of the community organizing work you do. This can include

Create a recovery asset and resource map
Defining a Recovery Asset and Resource Map An asset map is an inventory of community (local, state, or virtual) strengths and resources that has the

Host a monthly recovery advocacy team meeting
Defining a Community Recovery Advocacy Team Meeting A community Recovery Advocacy Team meeting is a convening of dedicated individuals from all pathways, family members and

Organize a recovery town hall with decision makers
This step-by-step HOW TO will help you in your effort to organize a Town Hall to survey local issues, understand public opinion, enlist advocates, and

Effectively speak out as a recovery advocate
This HOW TO piece of the Advocacy Toolkit draws from expertise of advocates that have been researching recovery messaging and speaking out on the front

Give effective public testimony
It is our hope that this step-by-step guide will prepare and empower you to share your recovery story in public at a hearing. Index Defining

Advocate for a Bill to become State Law
Part of the goal of the Recovery Advocacy Project is to build an educated and outspoken constituency that work towards community and legislative solutions around

Organize a Virtual Recovery Town Hall Meeting
This step-by-step HOW TO provides a guide to organizing your own virtual event, tip sheets and a checklist. Recovery Advocacy Project would be more than

Write a Media Advisory and Press Release
The Recovery Advocacy Project (RAP) is committed to giving people of all pathways of recovery, family members, and supporters of recovery the grassroots organizing tools

Write a Letter to the Editor
The Recovery Advocacy Project (RAP) is committed to giving people of all pathways of recovery, family members, and supporters of recovery the grassroots organizing tools