USARA Awarded the 2015 America Honors Recovery- Joel Hernandez Award

The Joel Hernandez Award recognizes one local, state or regional recovery community organization for its success in carrying out a vision and mission of mobilizing the recovery community to increase the awareness, prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Recovery community organizations (RCO’s) are led and governed by the recovery community – people in long-term recovery, their families, friends and allies- and they support all pathways to recovery.

America Honors Recovery is the addiction recovery community’s annual awards event to recognize the over 23.5 million Americans in recovery and recovery community organizations. Sponsored by Faces & Voices of Recovery, 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.

America Honors Recovery salutes the legacies of three dynamic recovery trailblazers who dedicated their lives to removing barriers for individuals and families affected by addiction – Dr. Vernon E. Johnson and recovery advocates Joel Hernandez and Lisa Mojer-Torres.