Tom Hedrick
Tom Hedrick, 2016 recipient of the White House Champions of Change for Advancing Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Award, was a founder of the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids in 1986, the national nonprofit now known as the Partnership to End Addiction. Over the course the Partnership’s 34-year history, Tom helped build resources and support for parents…
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Ashley Gardner
Ashley Gardner has been in the field of recovery services since 2021. Ashley is a woman in long-term recovery. Thanks to her lived experience, Ashley now works as a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist which allows her to work alongside people who struggle with substance use. In her active use, Ashley worked with a Recovery Navigator…
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Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers (MCRSP)
Gretchen Bergman
Gretchen Burns Bergman is Executive Director and Co-Founder of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing), a non-profit organization that works to reduce the stigma associated with addictive illness through education and compassionate support and to advocate for therapeutic rather than punitive drug policies. She served as State Chairperson for Proposition 36 in…
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John Donovan
Maj. John G. Donovan, M.Ed., C.P.R.S., U.S. Army, Ret. Maj. John G. Donovan is a person in long-term recovery with over 44 years of recovery time. He is passionate about recovery and lectures frequently to audiences on substance use disorder and recovery therefrom. He blogs on recovery; he is a certified peer recovery specialist; and…
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Dr. Vincent “Peter” Hayden
Peter Hayden is the principal and president of Turning Point, Inc., a Minneapolis-based nonprofit agency devoted to integrated holistic health services programs. Under his leadership, Turning Point has become known for not only culturally specific chemical dependency treatment services, but also housing and a spectrum of supportive services. The organization is also making a name…
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CLEAN Cause Foundation | Clean Cause
Clean Cause Foundation FOUNDING PURPOSE: CLEAN Cause Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization formed with the founding purpose to act as a trustee for giveback funds generated by CLEAN Cause, Inc. VISION: A world where everyone with a substance use disorder has what they need to support their recovery journey. MISSION: To bridge the critical gap…
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Dr. H. Westley Clark
H. Westley Clark retired in August 2022 as the dean’s executive professor in the Department of Public Health at Santa Clara University in California. He is the former director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, where he led the agency’s…
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