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I SUPPORT  BARACK OBAMA AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN THE 2008 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!!! I BELIEVE HE WILL BRING AN END TO 'POLITICS AS USUAL' IN WASHINGTON!!! GO TO: WWW.BARACKOBAMA.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION... AND GO TO "KUDOS" BELOW...

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Leslie Miller

Advocate...Singer-Songwriter

Advocate...Singer-Songwriter

Welcome to my site...I hope you'll send your feedback ...I want to hear from you!

Greetings! I've been blessed with long-term recovery from the disease of drug addiction since April 13, 2004! This has motivated me to examine my priorities and focus on what's truly important:  family, friends, advocating for the rights of us all to have equal access to medical, counseling and educational services, and of course, music and the arts! This has led to some major changes in my life.  Two of these are going back to school to study politics and law and creating this web site. I am hoping to become more knowledgeable on what our legal rights really are, how to access them, and how to speak out and affect change in the areas of law that are not adequate to meet our needs. This site is a place to share information on these and related subjects with those of you who already are or are yet to come into my life. I've included links to web sites where you can learn more on these subjects.  I've color-coded them by category for convenience as follows:  Addictions Recovery, Teens and Parents, Mental Health, Co-Dependency, Health, Education, Government, Advocacy, Legal, Civil & Human Rights, Employment Services, and Arts and Community. Any links to fee-for-services are providers that offer considerations for lower-income individuals, families, and non-profits. I hope you will join me in putting a face and voice on recovery. Our disease is still discriminated against, as many of you experience on a daily basis. Addicts don't receive equal treatment from health insurance companies regarding coverage and availability of treatment (parity), and legally as long as addiction is treated like a crime instead of the brain disease it really is. It is understood that we need to recover anonymously in our treatment or fellowship programs of choice. However, once we have stabilized, I believe it is our duty to first educate ourselves on how our system of government works and then do our part in changing laws and policies that negatively affect our addictions recovery community and others. Please tell your stories to our representatives and get involved. Everyone needs to know that "once an addict, always an addict" is a lie and that thousands of us are in long-term recovery! I have been privileged to serve as a member of RI Cares, our local addictions recovery advocacy group since 2005. I've been blessed with being their Advocacy Committee Chair this year and we had a wonderful annual Legislative Day at the RI Statehouse on April 23rd. 100s of people who either support or are in long-term recovery attended and it put a powerful face and voice on the RI recovery community! Their newly updated website is www.ricares.org and you can contact RICAREs Coordinator Jim Gillen at 401-521-5759 or by e-mail at: jgillen@dataofri.org to get peer support services or get involved in assisting others.  They sent me to Washington D.C. in 2005 (see report below) and make ongoing opportunities available for all of us to learn how to advocate for ourselves and our community. No matter where you are at in your path of recovery, please know that outside the rooms of your fellowships, there is a community of support ready to assist you to do whatever you want to do with your new life. We have friends that want to see us succeed! Let's not complain about the problems if we are not trying to be part of solution! If you like this site, please tell others about it. I look forward to getting your feedback, which you can submit to me directly from the "feedback" link on this site.  Remember: 

"ALONE I CAN'T, TOGETHER WE CAN!"

As of April 2007 I've unfortunately become more disabled with my Multiple Sclerosis. I hope to be able to continue my education part-time when I've gotten some strength back and either re-enter the work force if my condition improves in the next couple of  years or perhaps be able to establish a non-profit advocacy service and work from home.  More will be revealed...

 

   
   

MEMBERS OF 12-STEP FELLOWSHIPS PLEASE TAKE NOTE: 

OUR CONGRESSMEN & SENATORS WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Congressman Patrick Kennedy spoke at the closing ceremony of The Faces & Voices of Recovery's "Recovery Rising!" Summit and praised the recovery going on anonymously in the rooms of the 12-step fellowships, as did our other legislatures with whom we met!  Congressman Kennedy said that the disease of addiction has touched his family personally, and he is aware of our spiritual principals and traditions of anonymity.  He encouraged members of our fellowships to continue in personal recovery in private, and then individually get involved in the community as each feels able.  This will show law makers, the insurance companies, and others that long-term recovery is possible and that many are productive members of society!  This can be done in private conversations with friends and family members, community service and advocacy work (as individuals in recovery, not mentioning our fellowships), or at the very least by contacting our Senators and Congressmen.  They need to know we care about the issues that affect our lives.  He said that if half of the people in recovery contacted their legislators as those have who have breast cancer, our RI Delegation would have no problem getting these important bills passed on our behalf!  Let's flood their mailboxes, voicemails, and e-mail boxes with our wants and concerns.  If they feel they won't get your vote if they don't support us, we can make such a difference!  

AND IF YOU'VE BEEN DENIED YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE BECAUSE OF PAST FELONY CONVICTIONS, TELL THEM YOU WANT YOUR VOTE BACK!

CLICK ON THEIR NAME BELOW TO GO TO THEIR WEB SITE

OR THEIR PICTURE TO SEE THEIR VOTING RECORD & OTHER INFORMATION:


Congressman
Jim Langevin

 
 

Senator
Jack Reed

 
 
Senator
Sheldon Whitehouse
 
 

Congressman
Patrick Kennedy

 

NEED HELP KNOWING WHAT TO SAY?    GO TO: A CALL TO ACTION

 

RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITIES FOR ADDICTIONS RECOVERY ADVOCACY COMMITTEE:

 

Our April 23rd Annual Legislative Day was a big success! We still need your stories to tell our legislators what our problems are getting the medical treatment for addiction we need as well as how existing laws impact our ability to become productive members of society as we recover from our initial manifestations of our addiction-disorders. We also need to hear from treatment providers about the barriers that insurance companies are putting in your way to provide the quality and quantity of treatment for your patients. Please contact me at leslie.miller@cox.net or Jim Gillen at jgillen@dataofri.org to help us to continue to advocate for our RI recovery community.

OUR COORDINATOR JIM GILLEN ASKED US THIS IMPORTANT QUESTION IN A RECENT E-MAIL TO US:

"Are you a registered voter? Why not? "

If you are do you know who your local and national lawmakers are? It's how things get done and nothing gets the attention like a registered voter!

GO TO "A CALL TO ACTION" BELOW TO EITHER REGISTER TO VOTE OR TO FIND YOU LOCAL & NATIONAL LAWMAKERS...

Watch for e-mails from Jim or I or from our national advocacy organization Faces & Voices of Recovery ( & their local Rep. and RICARES member Tom Coderre) to find out about events and/or ways you can make your voice heard to make a difference where it counts!

 

KUDOS TO YOU!  3 OF THEM!

 

 

FOR BECOMING THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!! (click on picture to go to his web site)

 

 

 

HILLARY CLINTON FOR ENDORSING OBAMA SO SINCERELY AND FOR SAYING "YES WE CAN"! (click on picture to see video of her speech)

And if you're still thinking about voting for McCain, I saw Ariana Huffington interviewed this week and she wrote a new book called Right is Wrong and said that if you read her book and still want to vote for McCain, she'll give you your money back! Everything she said went right along with what I'm studying in my Political Science coursework at Rhode Island College. Don't know who Ariana Huffington is: 

About the Author:
"Arianna Huffington is the cofounder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of twelve books. She is also cohost of Left, Right & Center, public radio’s popular political roundtable program. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time magazine’s list of the world’s one hundred most influential people. Originally from Greece, Huffington moved to England when she was sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. She lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters."

Click here to get more information about her book Right is Wrong.

 

 

    

KUDOS to
SENATOR CHAFEE!

FOR CREATING ONLINE COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO NETWORK & MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE 2 FORUMS ABOVE AND HERE ARE

MORE WEB SITES FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2008 ELECTION:

THE WASHINGTON  POST'S CAMPAIGN 2008 TOOLBOX

THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON NEWS ONLINE PAGE

"THE CAUCUS," THE NEW YORK TIMES POLITICS BLOG

 

 FAMILY HEADLINES

 

 

My 1st Two Semesters at RI College:

I finished my 1st 2 semesters working on my B.A. in Political Science with a Minor in Jazz Studies at R.I. College and loved it! I learned a lot about Nigeria and the effects of imperialism on 3rd World countries. My Professor Silas Obadiah was born in Nigeria the same year I was born and coincidentally the year that Nigeria gained its independence from Britain (1960) and he was a delightful person to learn from! We read famous Nigerian novelists like Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Wole Soyinka and John Pepper Clark. I highly recommend the 3 novels we read: Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe and Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta. Learning about Nigeria definitely confirmed my belief that the Bush administration's imperialistic policies are not the policies our Founding Fathers and the majority of our citizens envision for our great United States of America! This last semester I took a philosophy course on the topic of "Freedom" and we read and discussed 3 very important books on the subject, the last of which is by George Lakoff and called Whose Freedom? Mr. Lakoff reveals how Conservatives have been trying to reframe the progressive concept of freedom and how it has resulted in the present deterioration of our democracy in the very name of "freedom, liberty and democracy," but with a very different application that as resulted in illegal warrantless wiretapping of US citizens, a C.I.A. that is a government unto itself that justifies programs such as "Rendition: in which persons suspected of having ties with terrorists are ripped off the street and thrown in US sponsored prisons in other countries without the benefit of due process of law. The American Civil Liberties Union has much more information on these subjects which i hope will motivate anyone on the fence for the 2008 Election to vote for the Democratic nominee who hopefully will be Senator Barack Obama (the math seems to be working out that way!) to end the Bush Administration's 8-year long tyranny and give the American government back to the people where it belongs!

 

My Applied Jazz Vocals Professor was Shawnn Monteiro, who is internationally known and amazing! I am very impressed with the level of professionalism the RI College music faculty manifests. With talents like Shawnn, Greg Abate and others, music students at RI College have wonderful opportunities to learn from the "real deals" in music! I've been saying that about Shawnn all along and it seems the world agrees, here's a quote from "The Garlic Blog" on Google:

 

"If you never had the opportunity to catch Ella, Sarah, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, et all, than you should make all effort to indulge in their torch-carrier, vocalist Shawnn Monteiro."

 

Shawnn Monteiro is the real deal.

(picture on left is Shawnn with her godfather Clark Terry)

Let me restate that - Shawnn Monteiro is THE REAL DEAL!

Born of Jazz royalty (her father, bassist Jimmy Woode, played with Duke Ellington, among others; And her godfather is the legendary Clark Terry), Shawnn can hit it with the best of them. Be it scat, standards or knocking out a ballad, you will be enthralled listening to Shawnn Monteiro, instantly knowing you are listening to a future legend.

Visit Shawnn's website.

You can purchase Shawnn Monteiro CD's on Amazon or CD Universe--"The Garlic, All the Cloves Fit to Peel" (blog spot)

 

Shawnn helped me so much these first two semesters to begin to get my musical chops back...I lost some of my confidence since I've needed a wheelchair for my MS starting this past March...but Shawn said, "if you stumble, make it part of the dance!" I took her advise and worked hard to re-learn my book of standards. It's beginning to pay off! I sang in a show at RIC on May 18th, have sat in with the Al Wilson Trio a couple of times and hope to be booking my own gigs soon. I had the wonderful privilege and treat that Al asked Michael Renzi who had stopped in to accompany me on a song or two and I will never forget it! (Thanks Papa Al for helping me get my feet wet again!) (Michael is one of the best jazz pianists in the world and is the the genius behind the music of Sesame Street: link !)

I just finished making a demo of my singing from the DVD of the May 18th show mentioned above. I uploaded it to my myspace.com page. Here's the link:  (8.46 min. video)

My son Taylor joined a  al band called "Mourning the Dead." They are all awesome musicians (the drummer used to play jazz drums!) and Taylor is playing guitar and writing songs with them as well! Here's their "My Space" page: http://www.myspace.com/wearemourningthedead

Here's pictures of him at a recent gig at the Living Room in Providence, RI:

 

 

 

 

SOME HOMEPAGE FEATURES:

A CALL TO ACTION

FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY LAST NATIONAL RECOVERY SUMMIT REPORT (SEPTEMBER 2005)

FAVORITE LINKS

KUDOS TO YOU!

MS CORNER

MY TWO CENTS WORTH

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

ONGOING EVENTS

PEOPLE IN RECOVERY IN THE NEWS:  PATRICK KENNEDY, JIM RAMSTAD, TOM CODERRE, LESLIE MILLER, MUCH MORE

SHAWNN MONTEIRO (JAZZ PERFORMER EXTRAORDINAIRE & MY MUSIC PROFESSOR!)

TWO IMPORTANT RECOVERY ARTICLES:  BRAIN CHEMISTRY TRUMPS WILLPOWER; THE SCIENCE OF ADDICTION 

 

Favorite Links:

Upcoming Events & Notices

Some Sites that Focus on Information & Resources for Addictions Recovery, Teens and Parents, Mental Health, Co-Dependency, Health, Education, Government, Advocacy, Legal, Civil & Human Rights, Employment Services, and Arts and Community:

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Democrat, Republican and a Bond of Addiction

Representative Patrick J. Kennedy, center, leaving court in June with Representative Jim Ramstad after pleading guilty to impaired driving.

Published: September 19, 2006
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 — Scenes from an uncommon political marriage:

Representative Jim Ramstad, a Republican from Minnesota, and Patrick J. Kennedy, a Democrat from Rhode Island, are deep in conversation on the House floor, Mr. Ramstad’s hand draped over his colleague’s shoulder.

Later that day, Mr. Ramstad receives a note in the Republican cloakroom from Mr. Kennedy, who needs a ride to a support group they attend in Georgetown. “Patrick’s not driving currently, so I’m sort of his chauffeur,” Mr. Ramstad says.

After the meeting, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Ramstad sit with friends in their regular booth at Morton’s Steakhouse. The gathering resembles any Washington power table, except the men are sipping Diet Coke and mineral water, have just come from “group” and are occasionally crying. “We love each other for our imperfections and for our common humanity,” Mr. Kennedy says.

The dinner last Tuesday celebrated Mr. Kennedy’s fourth month of sobriety, a process jolted into motion by an early morning car accident on Capitol Hill in May and a subsequent rehabilitation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he was treated for an addiction to painkillers.

In the precarious course of his recovery, Mr. Kennedy, the 39-year-old son of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, has come to rely heavily on Mr. Ramstad, 60. He has served as Patrick Kennedy’s sponsor, his primary source of advice and support in what he calls “the daily fight for my life” against addiction.

The day after the accident, Mr. Kennedy received a phone call from Mr. Ramstad, a recovering alcoholic who has been an evangelist in Congress for addiction treatment and 12-step recovery programs. The men did not know each other well.

But in battling their addictions, the two built a fast kinship that flouts the partisan divisions of Congress, their own divergent politics and the conditional nature of so many friendships in Washington. They speak daily, often several times. Mr. Ramstad visited Mr. Kennedy during his 28-day rehabilitation, driving two hours each Saturday from his Minnetonka home. When the Rhode Island Republican Party chairman called for Mr. Kennedy’s resignation after his crash, Mr. Ramstad called it “a slap in the face” to all recovering addicts.

Former Senator Max Cleland, a Georgia Democrat who frequently attends the Tuesday dinners, said, “This is a story of a shared and common humanity and overcoming political differences in a town known for its inhumanity.” Mr. Cleland, who lost both legs and part of an arm in Vietnam, says he is in recovery from “the trauma of war.”

“It’s a great brotherhood we all share,” he said of the dinner group. “And it has nothing to do with politics except that we’re all in it.”

The political world could learn much from these gatherings, Mr. Ramstad says. “If we could turn Congress into one big A.A. meeting,” he said, referring to Alcoholics Anonymous, “where people would be required to say what they mean and mean what they say, it would be a lot better Congress.”

In a joint interview with Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Ramstad in Mr. Ramstad’s office, each man nods solemnly while the other speaks. Both are mindful of the confidentiality rules involving recovery groups. They say they agreed to be interviewed because their “sponsorship” relationship was revealed in court as a condition of Mr. Kennedy’s probation (he pleaded guilty to impaired driving).

Mr. Kennedy has big expressive eyes, a lanky frame and slightly hunched posture that lends the impression of an overgrown boy. Mr. Ramstad walks chest-out and speaks with the practiced certainty of a man who has counseled numerous addicts over 25 years.

The two men share a keen sense of the twin burdens that being an addict and congressman impose, Mr. Kennedy says. “To some degree, all politicians lead a double life, a public one and a private one,” he said. Mr. Ramstad has emphasized the importance of integrating what he calls “the political game face” with “the real person inside.”

Being a Kennedy carries its own weight, Mr. Kennedy says, given the legacy of drug and alcohol abuse in his family. His mother, Joan Kennedy, has endured a long battle with alcoholism, and his father was involved in a string of alcohol-related episodes earlier in his career. (Senator Kennedy says he will drink a glass of wine at home at night or in social settings. He describes himself as being “well” over the last 15 years, a recovery he attributes to his current wife, Victoria.)

In a phone interview, Senator Kennedy says he shares a meal with Patrick once a week. His son is doing well, he says, thanks in large part to “the incredible generosity of spirit” of Jim Ramstad.

Patrick Kennedy makes frequent references to the pressures and expectations inherent in his name. “When you grow up in my family, being somebody meant having power, having status,” he said. “The compensations you got were all material and superficial. I’ve come to realize, in the last few months, that that life made me feel all alone.”

Both Mr. Ramstad and Mr. Kennedy are active in a House caucus of about 60 representatives that promotes legislation for treatment of addiction and mental illness. Some of the members are addicts themselves, or recovering addicts, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Ramstad say, but neither would estimate how many.

Mr. Ramstad attended support group meetings with former Representative Phil Crane, Republican of Illinois, who battled alcoholism and says his own recovery was nurtured by the late Senator Harold Hughes, Democrat of Iowa, who spoke of his own struggle with drinking.

“There is a very powerful recovering community in this town,” said Capt. Ronald Smith, the former chairman of psychiatry at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and a regular at the Tuesday dinners. A recovering addict, he has treated many senators and congressmen and leads the support group attended by Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Ramstad and Mr. Cleland.

It is unclear, Captain Smith says, whether addiction is more common among politicians, but alcohol does tend to pervade political life, with its cocktail party fund-raisers, endless dinners and constant travel. Ann Richards, the former Texas governor who was buried Monday, used to visit prison inmates and say, “My name’s Ann, and I’m an alcoholic.”

Mr. Ramstad makes repeated mention of “July 31, 1981,” the day he awoke from an alcohol-induced blackout in a Sioux Falls, S.D., jail after creating a disturbance at a hotel coffee shop. He had just finished his first term as a Minnesota state senator. “If I had not wound up in that jail cell, I would not have sought treatment,” Mr. Ramstad said. “I would probably be dead today.”

Mr. Kennedy has endured several public battles with mental illness. He was treated for cocaine addiction as a teenager, suffered from depression as a young adult, was given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder after coming to Congress in 1994 and then became addicted to painkillers. He also was prone to binge drinking, which contributed to a scuffle with an airport security guard and a visit from the Coast Guard after a heated argument with a girlfriend aboard a yacht, among other episodes that became public.

The May car crash was the latest embarrassment. The police found Mr. Kennedy disoriented, claiming he was heading to a House vote though Congress was not in session (it was 2:45 a.m.). Mr. Kennedy, who had been driving without headlights before swerving into a police barrier, blamed a mix of prescription medications for the accident.

Both men describe their signature humiliations — Mr. Kennedy’s accident and Mr. Ramstad’s arrest — as “blessings” that spurred them into recovery. “We both totally hit the wall, and it was publicized,” Mr. Kennedy said. “Or the barrier in my case.”

Mr. Ramstad says he has come to “love Patrick like a brother,” although there is more of a paternal tone to his manner when they are together. At one point during the interview, Mr. Ramstad tells him to turn off his hyperactive cellphone. Mr. Kennedy sheepishly obliges. He says he is learning to take instructions from a Republican.

 

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2005 Summit: September 6-8
Washington, DC

(READ ALL ABOUT IT:  CLICK HERE)

 

250 OF US WERE THERE...

WE MADE A DIFFERENCE! 

 

Congressman Kennedy at Summit Closing Reception

Leslie Miller of RI Cares & Congressman Kennedy

Tom Coderre of RI Cares introducing Congressman Kennedy

More Faces & Voices Summit Pics

 

More Recovery News & Information:

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February 23, 2004  

RAMSTAD ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF NEW CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS IN ADDRESS AT BETTY FORD CENTER

WASHINGTON – In an address to the annual meeting of the Chairman’s Council of the Betty Ford Center, U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad (MN-3rd) announced that he will form a new Congressional caucus to promote awareness of chemical addiction issues and increase support for greater access to treatment.

Ramstad spoke to the Chairman’s Council at the invitation of former First Lady Betty Ford, who attended the meeting with former President Gerald R. Ford.

Ramstad announced the formation of the bipartisan Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus “to educate lawmakers on the problems of addiction and need for expanding treatment access.”

“Last year alone, 3.5 million Americans were denied access to treatment,” said Ramstad, “and this is totally unacceptable.”

Ramstad also called on Congress to pass his treatment parity legislation “to end the discrimination against alcoholics and addicts who need treatment.”

Ramstad, a recovering alcoholic, has been a leader in Congress on addiction issues and recently received the “Betty Ford National Leadership Award” from the National Association for Children of Alcoholics for “his leadership in Congress to promote recovery and bring hope and healing to thousands of children and families.”

OUR RI CONGRESSMAN PATRICK KENNEDY IS THE CO-CHAIR OF THIS CAUCUS!

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ONGOING: 

         

NA Area Service Service Committee Meetings in RI:

Free Spirit (Southern RI & Surrounding Communities)

3rd Sunday of the month

St. Rita's Church, Oakland Beach Avenue, Warwick, RI

Administrative: 3-3:30, Subcommittees: 3:30-4, ASC Mtg: 4-6

 

Greater Providence

(Providence, Northern RI & Surrounding Communities)

4th Sunday of the month

Mt. Carmel Church, corner of Dean & Spruce Sts., Providence, RI

Administrative: 12-1:30, Literature Sales: 1:30-3, Subcommittees: 2-3; ASC Mtg: 3:30--5:30, New GSR Orientation: 3:15-3:25

 

NA Meetings:

NA Meetings Locator

NA Online Meetings List from NA.org

 

NA Regional Service Committee Meetings, New England Region of NA:

2nd weekend of every other month on even numbered months, RSC Meeting at noon on Saturdays & Subcommittees meet at noon on Sundays--

Different locations throughout region: check web site for next location at New England Region of Narcotics Anonymous.

 

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

AA Meetings Locator

 

The Red Road Recovery Meeting

Traditional Native American Talking Circle of Recovery

Mondays 7-830pm @ Dighton Indian Council Hall 1111 Somerset Ave (route 138), Dighton, Ma. 1-508-880-6887

All paths and cultures are welcome

 

 

22 Broadway, Newport, 401-619-1388

 

POETRY/ACOUSTIC MUSIC:  Every Wednesday Night, 8:00, NO COVER

 

ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES:

EVERY SATURDAY, 9-11 PM, $5.00

 

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR: 

       

JUNE:

 

Do yourself a favor and go see my jazz professor Shawnn Monteiro before she leaves for her annual European summer tour:

 

Friday, June 6th and June 20th, 8:00-11:00 PM

 

Johnny's Atlantic Beach Club, Newport RI

55 PURGATORY ROAD • MIDDLETOWN • RI • 401-847-2750

Tuesday, June 17th, 7:00 - 11:00 PM

 

The Hi Hat, Providence, RI (Davol Sq.)

3 Davol Sq
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 453-6500


  

JULY: 

 

Friday July 18, 10 am-2 pm

 McAuley House Block Party 

622 Elmwood Avenue, Providence

 

RICARES will be assisting in the day titled “Healthy Body, Mind & Spirit”

Among the offerings are Healthy Food Choices, Native American Music, Storytelling, CODAC All Stars, Art Displays of the guest’s work, Pilates, Poetry Readings of the guests work and more!

We are hoping to have the good folks of treatment and recovery have a display of their agency/organization/fellowship that the McAuley guests can access.

 

For more information call:
 

Jim Gillen, RICARES Director

401-521-5759


 

   

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Want to be a
"Recovery Coach"?

Call Jim Gillen at RICAREs to find out more:

401-521-5759, ext. 14

Bannister House in Providence is desperately seeking a 12 step commitment for their residents. Day and time flexible please call 521-9600 – Carol or contact RICAREs at 401-521-5759, ext. 14