Awards Nominations & Recipients

Leaders of the addiction recovery advocacy movement from across the nation will be honored at the Recovery Leadership Summit (RLS), June 2-5, 2024. RLS salutes the legacies of dynamic recovery trailblazers who dedicated their lives to removing barriers for individuals and families affected by addiction and honors the future of their legacies.

Our Awards

Appointed Award:

Excellence in Equity and Justice Award, in honor of Dr. Calvin Trent Jr., recognizes transformational leadership in creating authentic, diverse, equitable, just, and inclusive recovery communities. Dr. Calvin Trent of Detroit, Michigan, was a nationally recognized expert widely lauded for his fierce advocacy for the recovery community and a strong proponent of Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC) transformation. Dr. Trent's work helped to modernize how black and indigenous people of color are viewed and treated by health care providers.

Accepting Nominations:

Recovery Organization of the Year Award recognizes the exemplary achievements of one local, state, regional, or national nonprofit grassroots recovery organization for its advocacy and mobilizing of the recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from substance use disorder.

2024 Awardees

Dr. Corrie Vilsaint

Excellence in Equity and Justice Award

Dr. Corrie Vilsaint

Dr. Corrie Vilsaint is a recovery scientist who serves as instructor at Harvard Medical School, Associate Director of Recovery Health Equity at the Recovery Research…

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Recovery Organization of the Year

Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness

Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness believes everyone deserves the chance to see tomorrow. We are a state recognized non-profit Recovery Community Organization (RCO), led…

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Past Awardees

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Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers (MCRSP)

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Online Museum of African American Addictions, Treatment and Recovery

Awardee Representative: Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC Representative Organization: On The Mark Consulting Representative Title: International Speaker, Trainer, and Consultant Online Museum bio: The purpose of…

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Pam Lanhart

Pam has lived in the shadow of addiction her entire life. Growing up in a family where substance use was prevalent, Pam was determined that…

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Phil Valentine

Phil Valentine is the Executive Director of the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR). He has been integral to this Recovery Community Organization since January…

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Ron Williams

Ron Williams is an Industrial Areas Foundation trained Community Organizer residing in Portland, Oregon.  Has been a local and national leader in recovery advocacy since…

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Tom Coderre

Awardee: Tom Coderre Awardee Organization: SAMHSA Awardee Title: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use With decades of public, private, and non-profit…

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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…

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Tom Hill

Tom Hill identifies as a gay man in long-term recovery from addiction and has been a part of the recovery advocacy movement since 1998. Tom’s…

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