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.
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
Continuing Education Credit
The conference and pre-conference workshops offer up to 12.25 hours of credit for participants attending all sessions.
- Up to 12.25 Contact Hours from Northwest AHEC
- Up to 12.25 hours (Category A) continuing education for NC psychologists.
- Up to 12.25 NBCC Contact Hours. Northwest AHEC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved
Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5465. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest AHEC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
(Wednesday: 4.0 Contact Hours, Thursday: 5.75 Contact Hours, Friday: 2.5 Contact Hours)
Registration Fees
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.
