𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣𝗢𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗗𝗔 – 𝗬𝗢U’𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗩𝗘𝗗.

Are you hosting a Recovery Event in September? During Recovery Month? Please submit your event so we can promote it as we near September Submit Your Event Listing

Over 30,000 Canadians have died from overdoses since January 2016, and thousands more from alcoholism. As a nation, we need to raise awareness that recovery is possible, sustainable, and attainable.

We are looking for people across Canada to organize festivals, picnics, walks/runs, dances, speaker meetings anything you can to be creative and to start somewhere.

Recovery Month Canada MOTION 10 WINS in the House of Commons.

After almost a decade of petitions, motions and multiple attempts by various MP’s and community leaders the Canadian House of Commons adopted a motion to designate the month of September as National Recovery Awareness Month.

On September 28^th,  2022 Member of Parliament for New Westminster-Burnaby Peter Julian tabled Motion-10 to recognize and support Canadians recovering from addiction and demonstrate that recovery from addiction is possible, attainable and sustainable. The motion had joint seconders of MP Mike Morrice, and MP Gord Johns showing support from multiple parties. This declaration follows years of petitioning the Canadian government, with the first motion M551 being put forth in the House of Commons in 2014. Since then, there have been multiple petitions with thousands of signatures of support including over 2500 signatures this year alone. The United States has recognized September as National Recovery Month since 1989, providing a platform and support to their Recovery Communities and showcasing that recovery is real and that it works.

What is “National Addiction Recovery Awareness Month” and the Petition to the House of Commons

Whereas:

• Connecting people to the community is key to successful long-term addiction recovery;
• A sociocultural approach to recovery involves both the individual and their social and physical environment;
• Supporting the community plays a significant role in helping the community at large to learn about recovery, save lives with inspiration and educate people on how to access the healthcare system;
• Community inspires recovery when it is founded on the principles of compassion, trust, faith, integrity, diversity, fun, and unity to provide therapeutic environments in which individuals and families are assisted in developing skills necessary to live freely in recovery;
• Recovery Service Providers across Canada are working together to overcome addiction;
• Recovery Day events held across Canada in September are open for all to attend, people in recovery, those who support recovery, and those who are still in active addiction and looking for solutions are invited to participate, and
• Many local and provincial governments support the initiative to have the month of September declared “National Addiction Recovery Awareness Month”.

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to support Motion M-10, which calls on Canada to designate the month of September, every year, as National Recovery Awareness Month to recognize and support Canadians recovering from addiction and to demonstrate that recovery from addiction is possible, attainable and sustainable. See the Petition click here

Who We Are

The M-10 Movement has been created by a group of people in recovery and their allies who wish to make Recovery Month Canada officially recognized by the Federal Government to help stop overdoses, save lives and share the message of hope that recovery from addiction is possible.

About Recovery Month Canada

In 2017 the Canadian Centre on Substance Use published the Life in Recovery from Addiction in Canada (Technical Report) with its key findings showing Over half of the respondents had been in recovery for 10 years or longer at the time of the survey. Survey findings document the many heavy costs of addiction to the individual and to the nation in terms of finances, physical and mental health, family functioning, employment, and legal involvement.   Results from the Life in Recovery survey suggest that recovery from addiction among the survey respondents is associated with improvements in many of these areas.

Thousands of Canadians are supporting this, there is a national network of recovery facilities, recovery people, recovery-oriented healthcare service providers, and Recovery Day events taking place in cities across Canada with tens of thousands of participants, all while addiction continues to see hundreds of Canadians die each month from addiction.

We are asking you to support Motion M-10, National Recovery Awareness Month which calls on Canada to designate the month of September, every year, as National Recovery Awareness Month to recognize and support Canadians recovering from addiction and to demonstrate that recovery from addiction is possible, attainable, and sustainable.

Your support would demonstrate your commitment to raising the awareness that recovery from addiction is possible, and your goal to foster healthy people and communities.    

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