CCAR Vision Statement
The Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) envisions a world where the power, hope and healing of recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction is thoroughly understood and embraced.
CCAR Mission Statement
The Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) organizes the recovery community (people in recovery, family members, friends and allies) to: 1) Put a face on recovery and, 2) Provide recovery support services.
By promoting recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction through advocacy, education and service, CCAR strives to end discrimination surrounding addiction and recovery, open new doors and remove barriers to recovery, maintain and sustain recovery regardless of the pathway, all the while ensuring that all people in recovery, and people seeking recovery, are treated with dignity and respect.
Bill White: Articles and Video Trailer
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VIDEO: "Towards a Recovery-Oriented System of Care": a 7 minute video trailer of the one-hour conference given in Washington, DC. This video is available on DVD in our recovery store.
William L. White is a senior research consultant at Chestnut Health Systems/Lighthouse Institute and past board chair of Recovery Communities United. He has a Master's degree in Addiction Studies and 35 years of experience in the addictions field. He has authored or coauthored more than 275 articles and monographs and thirteen books. In 2003, he received the 2003 National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers’ Michael Q. Ford Journalism Award.
Articles by Bill White
The following documents are .pdf files.
The Language of Recovery Advocacy: An Essay on the Power
of Language
All in the Family: Addiction, Recovery, Advocacy
Recovery Rising: Radical Recovery in America
The Recovery Community Organization 2007
Bill White Interviews Phil Valentine CCAR Executive Director
For more articles by Bill White, please visit Faces and Voices of Recovery.
Hartford Recovery
Community Center
Capitol Voices of Recovery
198 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114
Phone 860-244-3343 • Fax 860-244-3363
Laurie Fresher, Manager •
Email laurie@ccar.us
Bridgeport Recovery
Community Center
Recovery on the Sound
49 Cannon St. (rear),
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: 203-332-3303
Fax: 203-332-3306
Michael Askew, Manager •
Email michael@ccar.us
Windham Recovery
Community Center
713 Main St (rear)
Willimantic, CT 06226
Phone: 860-423-7088 •
Fax: 860-423-8768
Diane Potvin, Manager • Email: diane@ccar.us