Recovery Month Kit

Media Outreach

This section offers tips and tools for planning and promoting your Recovery Month activities, as well as templates to customize and send to local and online media outlets. In this section, you will find:

Planning Your Recovery Month Event – This guide will help you plan both in-person and online events by giving tips on popular event ideas and trends.
- Download the PDF version of "Planning Your Recovery Month Event" (1078 KB).
A Guide to Recovery Month Publicity and Media Interviews – This piece offers guidance about how to publicize your events and other Recovery Month activities and also includes tips on giving interviews with print and television reporters.
- Download the PDF version of "A Guide to Recovery Month Publicity and Media Interviews" (1437 KB).
Press Materials for Your Recovery Month Event – This guide shows how to develop and distribute media advisories and press releases, including a template to customize.
- Download the PDF version of "Press Materials for Your Recovery Month Event" (1408 KB).
Drafting and Submitting an Op-ed During Recovery Month – This piece outlines how to write and submit an op-ed, which is placed opposite the editorial page of your local newspaper, and includes a template to follow.
- Download the PDF version of "Drafting and Submitting an Op-ed During Recovery Month" (1089 KB).
Official Proclamations – This guide gives tips for what content to include in a proclamation – an official notice from a government official to raise awareness about an issue – and provides a template with instructions for recruiting an official.
- Download the PDF version of "Official Proclamations" (756 KB).
Promoting Recovery Month With Public Service Announcements – These are ideas for distributing live-read public service announcements (PSAs) and how to promote pre-recorded Recovery Month PSAs in your community.
- Download the PDF version of "Promoting Recovery Month With Public Service Announcements" (678 KB).
Banners, Letterhead, and Logos – Further customize your outreach materials by printing logos on your organization’s letterhead or copying them onto the camera-ready letterhead provided here. You also can add the Recovery Month logo to any materials that you produce.
- Download the PDF version of the "Letterhead" (101 KB).
  Download the PDF version of the "Logos" (653 KB).

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The Recovery Month effort aims to promote the societal benefits of alcohol and drug use disorder treatment, laud the contributions of treatment providers, and promote the message that recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders in all its forms is possible.

Materials and events posted on the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month (Recovery Month) Web site are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.