16th Annual “One Community in Recovery” Conference
Healing Together: Building Stronger Communities
March 5-7, 2025
Embassy Suites Greensboro Airport in Greensboro, NC
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Lodging
Lodging is available at a group rate at the Embassy Suites Greensboro Airport, 204 Centreport Dr., Greensboro, NC 27401 for March 5-6, 2025. To book lodging, visit the reservations link
Keynote Speakers
Devin Lyall - Devin is the Founding Executive Director of Wilkes Recovery Revolution, INC., whose mission is to create a community where recovery is possible through restoring hope, repairing lives, and rebuilding the community. Devin Lyall is an Individual directly impacted by Substance Use and Mental Health and brings the lens of lived experience to her work. Wilkes Recovery Revolution (WRR) now hosts eleven unique programs: Phases Transitional Housing, Wilkes Harm Reduction Collective, R3 Recovery Community Center, Project Healing Our Workforce, Fresh Start Farm, Wilkes Fresh Mobile Market, Revolution Thrift Store, Wilkes Crisis Intervention Team, Post Overdose Response Team and Hope Warriors. Devin is the recipient of the Great State Hero Award for Crisis Assistance, the 2021 Chairman’s Award from the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce, the 2020 Recovery Champion Award through NC One Community in Recovery, the 2022 Harm Reduction Hero Award Addiction Professionals of North Carolina, Todd E. Whitworth National Humanitarian Award, 2023 Harm Reduction Hero Award through the NC Alcohol and Drug Council, and the organization was recently awarded the National Recovery Community Organization of the year award in Washington, DC. Her story and WRR's work have been featured in The Economist, the Winston-Salem Journal, NC Health News, Spectrum News, VICE Media, and WRAL Television, and she recently presented her first TEDx Talk. Devin is an avid dog lover who is the prime definition of rescue foster failure and takes the most pride in enjoying adventures with her children and family.
Vesper Moore - Vesper is an Indigenous activist and leader. They are deeply committed to promoting mental health and disability rights through activism, leadership, organizing, public speaking, and education. Their work focuses on cultivating social movements and raising public awareness to foster lasting social change. Vesper has contributed to the establishment of mental health organizations worldwide and has been an advocate for civil rights in the United States. Through their advocacy, they have brought the perspectives of people with mental health challenges and disabilities to both national and international platforms. Collaborating with the United States government and the United Nations, Vesper helps shape strategies around trauma, intersectionality, and disability rights. They have been featured on NBC News, PBS NewsHour, Politico, and at The White House. Vesper is at the forefront of legislative reform, striving to shift the societal paradigm surrounding mental health.
Recovery Champion Award Nomination (Deadline December 6, 2024)
This award will recognize three (3) individuals: one each from the western, central and eastern regions of North Carolina. Recovery Champion Awards will be given to people who have dedicated their individual talents, whether through professional work or volunteering, to successfully promote mental health and/or substance use recovery. Nominations should describe how a NC Recovery Champion has promoted recovery-oriented programming, created system-wide recovery-oriented change, or supported the recovery process of specific individuals. All Nominations will be reviewed and selected by a panel of Recovery Conference Planning Committee members. Award recipients will be provided free registration to the conference! Nominate HERE
Youth/Young Adult Voice Award Nomination (Deadline December 6, 2024)
This award will recognize and celebrate a youth/young adult under the age of 26 in North Carolina who has dedicated their individual talents, whether through sharing their story, advocacy or volunteering, to successfully promote resilience mental health and/or substance use recovery. All Nominations will be reviewed and selected by a panel that will include young adult peers in North Carolina. Award recipients will be provided FREE REGISTRATION to the conference! Nominate HERE
Scholarship Application
Please apply by December 31, 2024
The planners of this conference realize that one of the best ways we can become “One Community in Recovery” is to ensure that community members are learning new information together. We want to ensure that people who have first person experiences with recovery have the opportunity to participate. If you have a fixed or limited income, you are invited to apply for a scholarship to cover the conference registration fee. We hope to see you at the conference! Apply for scholarship here
Supporter and Exhibitor Opportunities
The NC “One Community in Recovery” Conference is a place where individuals working and involved in recovery as defined in its broadest terms can share their work and gain support from others involved in the recovery movement. The conference is primarily focused on promoting the growth of the North Carolina Recovery Movement, teaching participants how to get recovery programming up and running in their own communities, showcasing the most progressive recovery practices, and bringing individuals interested in the recovery movement together as students and partners. Exhibits are open to state agencies, public and private corporations and foundations, local organizations, service organizations and community based organizations involved in providing services that support the recovery of the person as a whole. Exhibitors should be interested and engaged in collaborating to support positive health and well-being of individuals in recovery. Exhibitor Info and Registration
Who Should Attend?
We warmly invite all individuals involved in any aspect of recovery and resiliency around mental health and substance use disorders. This conference will be beneficial to addictions specialists, administrators, advocates, allies, counselors, educators, family members, individuals with lived experience, marriage and family therapists, peer support specialists, policy makers, psychologists, social workers, and other health and human service professionals interested in recovery.
