Recovery Month Awareness Events

September is Recovery Month, a national annual campaign to promote and support new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices. The Recovery Month tagline, “Recovery is for Everyone: Every Person, Every Family, Every Community,” serves as a reminder that recovery belongs to all of us. Together we can remove barriers to recovery support, create inclusive spaces and programs that honor all pathways to recovery, and broaden our understanding of what recovery means for people with different experiences.

Join Healthy Acadia and community partners for these awareness-building Recovery Month events:

6th Annual Walk for Recovery

Friday, September 16, 2022; 6 p.m., Machias

Please join the Washington County Community Action Team for the 6th Annual Walk for Recovery to celebrate those in Recovery, Families in Recovery, and Recovery Allies, as together we continue to work to bring an end to the substance use epidemic that so greatly impacts our communities.

The event will begin in front of the Machias Chamber of Commerce, located across from Helen’s Restaurant on US 1, where individuals can make their own signs to display on the walk. The walk will head down Main Street and end at Bad Little Falls, where we will gather and hear from local speakers focused on building a robust recovery community.

INSPIRE Recovery Center 2nd Annual Open House

Saturday, September 24, 2022, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ellsworth

Join Healthy Acadia at our INSPIRE Recovery Center, 24 Church Street, Ellsworth, for our second annual open house event. Stop in for a tour of the Center, hamburgers and hot dogs grilled to perfection - thanks to Ellsworth Police Department, who will be manning the grills again this year! Stay for some corn hole and other outdoor games before heading out to join in Ellsworth’s Annual Autumn Gold Weekend activities.

Overdose Awareness Display

September, various Ellsworth locations (outdoors)

Thank you to the many community members who gathered together with us at our INSPIRE Recovery Center on Overdose Awareness Day (August 31) to remember and honor all who have been lost to overdose.

The event included a powerful visual reminder in memory of the 56 people who were lost to overdose in Hancock County between 2017- 2021. The Overdose Awareness display, featuring fifty-six pairs of shoes, each pair affixed with a single purple balloon, will remain on display in September, Recovery Month, and can be viewed at Machias Savings Bank, 93 High Street, Ellsworth, September 6-9; and Ellsworth Public Library, 20 State Street, Ellsworth, the week of September 12. Special thanks go to these community-serving organizations for partnering with Healthy Acadia to help spread awareness about substance use disorder (SUD) and ways to prevent and recover.

If your business or organization is interested in hosting this display, please be in touch with Beth Alteri at beth.alteri@healthycadia.org or 207-412-2288 Ext. 401.

To access substance prevention and recovery resources, click here.

To make a gift in support of these critical resources, visit bit.ly/SupportRecoveryReadyCommunities.