Get Involved

Join Vermont’s recovery community movement!

Join us at our Events

FOR-VT sponsors a variety of activities each year. Our focus is on building a strong recovery community and educating the public about the reality of long-term recovery. Attending workshops, focus groups, town hall meetings, discussion groups, recovery walks, fundraisers and legislative forums are some of the ways you can get involved.  See CALENDAR.

Become a FOR-VT Volunteer

Your greatest gift to us is your time, skills and talents! The recovery community is talented and resourceful. We’re always looking for volunteers to help with events, work in the office, manage our website, offer a workshop, facilitate a group, and help with fundraisers. FOR-VT volunteers can facilitate focus groups and educational sessions for the recovery community, and may also join councils, boards and coalitions as a voice for the recovery community. Your desire to give back is the only qualification you need. We’ll match you with a current project or perhaps you can initiate your own. Volunteer training on recovery ethics and boundaries, and other topics, is provided.  Go to the VOLUNTEER PAGE.

Organize Regional Chapters of FOR-VT

If your interest is in advocacy and public education, then this is the volunteer opportunity for you! Regional Chapters are forming to gather the recovery community together from time to time to share their ideas about prevention, treatment and recovery resources in their community. Planning advocacy strategies about emerging issues and legislation furthers the FOR-VT mission and reaches even more Vermonters.  Contact us to start or join a Chapter near you.

Join the Voices of Recovery

Vermont VOICES OF RECOVERY is a Speakers Bureau dedicated to educating the public about what it is like to experience and to recover from mental illness and/or addictions. Our goal is to bring voices and visibility to recovery. VOICES OF RECOVERY is a merger between the Mental Health Education Initiative (MHEI) and the Friends of Recovery- Vermont (FOR-VT) Speakers Bureaus.  Find out more…

Join the FOR-VT Advisory Board

We are a peer-run organization which means the majority of our advisors come from the recovery community. The Advisory Board meets monthly in Montpelier and represents the interest of FOR-VT in within community and professional roles. Advisory Board members also help with committees, organize events, and advocate for recovery issues.   Contact us for more information. 

Become a Recovery Coach  (more details coming soon)

Recovery Coaches get active in the recovery community in a variety of ways.  The primary role of a Recovery Coach is to meet with folks new in recovery, and their family members, to help navigate their way through the service system and connect with recovery programs such as recovery centers and support groups. In most cases, coaches are peers.  Peers are people with lived experiences. That, along with a recovery-friendly manner and an open mind, are the requirements to get involved with FOR-VT as a Recovery Coach.  Coaches receive support and training.   Learn more about Recovery Coach models on our Recovery Resources  page.