2013 America Honors Recovery Awards to be Presented June 26

Faces & Voices of Recovery and Caron Treatment Centers will present the 2013 America Honors Recovery Awards on June 26 to leaders in the recovery community.

This year’s honorees are A New Path (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing) of San Diego, which will receive The Joel Hernandez Award; Tom Coderre, Rhode Island State Senator, Andre L. Johnson of the Detroit Recovery Project, and Scott Strode of Phoenix Multisport of Denver, Colorado, who will receive the Vernon Johnson Award; Arthur C. Evans, Jr., PhD, Commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, who will receive the Lisa Mojer-Torres Award; and Kristen Johnston, Emmy Award-winning actress and best-selling author, who will receive The Voice of Recovery Award.

The awards ceremony will take place at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. America Honors Recovery is the addiction recovery community’s annual awards event, which recognizes the more than 20 million Americans in recovery and recovery community organizations. The event highlights the extraordinary contributions of the country’s most influential recovery community leaders to the growing movement to promote the reality of recovery from addiction.