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FACES members advocate on the local, state and national level, bringing awareness to the need for accessible and effective services for Vermont families. Your voices need to be heard! Get involved now! 
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Mar. 27 - 2009 Recovery Day at the Statehouse (Non-FACES Event) Apr. 22 - 22nd Annual VT Foster & Adoptive Family Association Conference NON-FACES EVENTMay. 15 - 4th Annual Working with Youth Conference NON-FACES EVENT See the full list!
FACES Poster Hot off the Press and Ready to go!!COMMENT ON THE CLASSIFICATION, DEFINITION, MARKETING, SALE, AND TAXATION OF FLAVORED MALT BEVERAGES AND ALCOHOL ENERGY DTIME TO ACT!! How to Tell if Your Teen is Using and Taking Action to Intervene- From the Partnership for a Drug Free Ame See the full list!
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Welcome to FACESWho We AreFamilies of Addiction Consulting for Effective Services (FACES) is a dedicated group of Vermont parents and family members whose lives have been touched by their children's substance use and/or mental health issues. The FACES Project is designed to get parents and teens involved in helping shape teen substance use and mental health services across Vermont. The State of Vermont has received federal funding to redefine our adolescent treatment system and we need the family-voice in order to achieve this. Our GoalsThere needs to be an increase in adolescents' and families' ability to get quality substance use and mental health treatment in Vermont. The treatment referral process should become more sensitive to adolescents' and families' needs and concerns. The treatment providers' assessment process should give adolescents and families a clear picture of how to begin to address their needs and concerns. We want treatments that are proven to work are brought to Vermont to give adolescents and families the best possible service without having to go somewhere else. We need improved communication between adolescents, families, treatment providers, and other community resources to ensure complete therapeutic care. FACES is an initiative that is funded by a grant from the Vermont Dept of Health and administrated by Friends of Recovery-VT 1-800-769-2798. |
AlertsGearing up for the 2009 Legislative Session! Stay tuned for more information! In early 2009, we will be issuing a legislative agenda for the year. Please stay tuned to Alerts for more information on how you can speak to the legislature about the issues concerning your family.Marin Institue- Ask Vermont to Reclassify The alcohol industry gets away with murder when states allow them to classify alcopops as beer. Alcopops are shamelessly marketed to youth as low-priced, sweet, bubbly "flavored malt beverages" or FMBs.
Help Vermont follow California and Utah's courageous lead in properly reclassifying and taxing alcopops as distilled spirits. In August 2007, the California Board of Equalization approved taxing alcopops as distilled spirits. Utah also recently passed legislation that has resulted in most alcopops makers pulling their dangerous products off the shelves completely.
Now Vermont could also reduce the popularity of alcopops amongst young people by pricing them out of their reach and limiting where they can be sold.
The Surgeon General has estimated that 5,000 underage drinkers die every year. In the US, survey data shows that underage drinkers consume 5.5 times more alcopops than adult drinkers. Research from Marin Institute estimates that classification as distilled spirits could decrease overall consumption of these beverages by 35%, thereby reducing alcohol-related harms and costs.
Tell the Vermont Department of Liquor Control by October 31 that you strongly support the reclassification of flavored malt beverages as distilled spirits. The change will discourage underage consumption of alcopops, save lives and reduce injuries.
* Support the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs (ADAP) of the Vermont Department of Health in the reclassification of alcopops from "malt beverages" to "distilled spirits" for the purpose of marketing, sales, and taxation.
For more information,to sign the petition or to see the website please go to:
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FACES Poster"Worried about your child using alcohol, tobacco and/or other drugs?" This poster was designed by the FACES Family Advisory Board, working in conjunction with RavenMark Communications and Design and Friends of Recovery-VT (Montpelier, VT). To receive a hard copy to post in your local school, physicians office, police station etc, please contact us. You can also get a PDF file of the poster by clicking here! Household Survey on Youth Substance Use
Complete the survey by clicking here!
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