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Sunday, September 12, 2010: Road Recovery Rock and Ride 2010 Fundraising Event- NYC |
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PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS PROGRAM (General Program Overview):
Program Length: 8 to 16 weeks per season OR a year-long program,
typically 2-3 hours per session, 1 to 2 sessions weekly.
- Brings together artists and entertainment industry professionals who are well established in their recovery from active addiction or other adversities to share their ‘life’ skills and wisdom with enrolled young adults on a weekly basis
- Road Recovery staff collaborates with the young adults in weekly workshops, sharing life skills and teaching their particular expertise in the areas of music, as well as staging, lighting, sound, event management, video production/projection, drama, drum circle, dance, spoken word/poetry/storytelling, studio recording, and other performance components to create and present a live-concert event(s).
- Mentoring with a message is what the Performance Workshops Program is all about! This works because our entertainment industry professionals are committed to spending time in order to build relationships with young people.
- Road Recovery staff facilitates a close working relationship between the young participants and the entertainment industry professionals to establish an environment where both students and mentors are dramatically and positively impacted through their efforts to achieve a common goal – a live concert event(s). The result is young adults developing life skills.
- Road Recovery DOES NOT provide mental health treatmentto its program participants who must be under the supervision and care of their own treatment professional. Program participants must be concurrently attending any level of treatment (outpatient program, private therapist offering primary services as structure, monitoring, and support).
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| Road Recovery’s Performance Workshops Program Purpose: |
- To Address mentoring with a message: Road Recovery’s entertainment industry professionals are committed to spending time in order to build relationships with program participants.
- To Bring together artists and entertainment industry professionals who are well established in their recovery from active addiction or other adversities to share their ‘life’ skills and wisdom with enrolled participants and staff members on a weekly basis.
- For Staff to facilitate a close working relationship between the participants and entertainment industry professional mentors to establish an environment where both participants and staff may be dramatically and positively impacted through their efforts to achieve a common short and long term goal.
- For Staff to work with participants in weekly workshops, sharing life skills and teaching music, as well as staging, lights, sound, event management, video production/projection, drama, drum circle, spoken word/poetry/storytelling including other live performance components and studio recording opportunities.
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| Road Recovery Performance Workshops Provide: |
- Custom designed, independent clinically supervised programming.
- One size doesn’t fit all, Road Recovery works hard toward meeting the needs of each participant.
- Team building among participants.
- Open and direct conflict resolution.
- An environment that encourages and supports individuality.
- A process that motivates young people to participate by encouraging them to have a stake in the programs collective outcome.
- Short & long term goal setting with the support, guidance, and resources needed for participants to reach set goals.
- ‘State of the art’ gear, music/production equipment, supplies for staff & participants for hands-on training/use.
- Communication and coordination essential to multi-agency teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Multi-level support and supervision by adults for participants.
- Communication and collaboration with participant’s treatment providers.
- A safe and confidential environment in which participants can share freely.
- Program Staff: screening and training of all staff.
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| Road Recovery’s Performance Workshops Program consists of: |
Road Recovery Performance Workshops Program participants draw strength and support from each other during their weekly Recovery Meeting. |
Road Recovery staff, Owen Comaskey (left) works out a bass riff with Ryan S., who started playing the bass guitar after joining Road Recovery’s Performance Workshops Program.. |
Recovery Meetings: 1st hour
Road Recovery’s weekly ‘Recovery Meeting’ provides an opportunity for program participants to support each other by sharing together their ups and downs of daily recovery & personal adversities with Road Recovery entertainment industry professionals who have confronted similar life crises and now wish to share their experience, knowledge and hope.
Business Meetings: 10 mins.
Road Recovery staff and program participants collectively address self-governing aspects of the program and organize upcoming live performances and outreach events. During the Business Meeting, staff and participants decide what they will work on during the Performance Workshops creative rehearsals following the Business Meeting
Performance Workshops:
remaining 2 hours
Creative rehearsals under the direction of Road Recovery entertainment industry professionals follow the Business Meeting. Participants create, design & rehearse in preparation for concerts, outreach events, songwriting, studio recordings, & artwork (CD covers, posters, T-shirts, etc.).
Master Class Series:
Featuring Guest Speakers from all paths of life.
Frequency: on a one-time basis or as a mini-series.
Location: on-or-off site from the program’s location, pending guest speaker’s schedule & availability.
- Introduces career "success stories": individuals from a variety of fields who have achieved success and happiness in their careers present to the young adult participants in Road Recovery’s Performance Workshops Program.
- Provides an informal environment for participants to gain insight into various career opportunities and the requirements needed to achieve such career goals. The Master Class Series helps young people charter a road map towards fulfilling career interests.
- The guest speakers describe their personal first-hand experiences, share their path, describe their jobs and what they did to get where they are, and suggest ways for interested young people to get involved through internships, educational and job opportunities.
"Everyone asks what you want to be when you grow up, and I say, what do you like to do?"
– Doug E. Fresh [the ‘Human Beat Box’/hip hop artist] |
"Find ONE THING you like to do. By finding that ONE THING you like to do and the willingness to keep working at it, this will result in finding the means of making a living at it or through it."
– Charles Grodin [actor/parent] |
"It was very nice meeting with all of you from Road Recovery. The biggest disservice you can do is to ignore or deny your potential, it’s quite limitless, take control as it can be the difference between pass & fail."
– Henry Rollins, Singer/Songwriter, Spoken Word Artist, Author, Actor, and Publisher.
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Steve Martin (center), Road Recovery Executive Board Member & President, The Agency Group Ltd. stands in front of his ‘booking’ - Squeeze's 'sold-out' venue with Road Recovery program teens. |
In-The-Field Trips:
Frequency: on a one-time basis.
Location: off-site program location.
In furthering both the impact and skills taught by Road Recovery’s entertainment industry staff during the Performance Workshops Program, program participants and staff go “In-The-Field” to witness real work situations which bring to life the skills taught in the Performance Workshops – providing program participants a realistic experience of career opportunities or cultural experiences.
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Featuring Guest Speaker(s) + Dicussion Forum
Running time: 2 hours, on a one-time basis
- Road Recovery brings entertainment industry professionals and/or teenagers who are involved in Road Recovery’s Performance Workshops Program to share their first-hand experience dealing with addiction or other adversities in their lives.
- The guest speaker’s honesty engages young adult audiences in an interactive discussion about the affects of addiction, while weighing the positive real life experiences to support the speaker’s choice to live a substance-free life (note: the Educational Seminars can be tailored to other subjects: i.e. depression, anxiety, etc...).
- The Educational Seminars provide a forum to share personal experiences: young adults get the opportunity to see, hear and ask questions "behind the recovery" from both entertainment industry professionals and/or their peers (young adults who are involved in Road Recovery’s program). Road Recovery’s guest professionals are from all corners of the entertainment industry including tour managers, artists, instrument techs, lawyers, ‘roadies’, stage managers, sound engineers, record company executives, booking agents, publicists, producers, etc.
- Road Recovery includes independent substance abuse professionals at each seminar in order to present information about the disease of addiction, and provide direction for participants in need of help.
Road Recovery conducts extensive research prior to each Educational Seminar, in order to specifically address the needs of each institution engaged for an educational seminar. Advance research includes meetings several weeks prior to the seminar with faculty, staff, and interested young adults. Follow-up evaluations with each organization and area programs are conducted after every scheduled seminar to ensure needs and expectations are met. |
| ..Discussion Topics Include... |
Alcohol & Drugs:
Definitions of both
- The myths vs. the facts
- Issues around denial
- Hazards, dangers
- Consequences with regards to: well-being: spiritual, emotional, psychological, developmental, physical
- Other losses: financial, time, opportunities, relationships, etc.
- Most popular/dangerous
- The attraction (Physical and Emotional)
- Experimentation, its dangers and the “slippery slope”
- “Escaping life” (feeling good, fitting in and medicating emotional pain)
Hitting Bottom:
- Turning points with regards to deciding to get sober
- Burning bridges and mistakes made
- Facing the effects of one’s addiction and its impact on others
- Rebuilding relationships and trust
- The process, difficulties, and benefits.
- Coping with school, growing up/changes in life, parents, sexuality and orientation,
friends, peer pressure and home life
- Living life on life’s terms
Creating a Healthy and Sober Future:
- Connecting with local neighborhood organizations, high school counselors, university counseling centers, faculty members, mental health professionals and support groups/organizations
- Understanding the power of “WE”
- Building community, new relationships
- Career information and guidance
- Opportunities (volunteer and paid) in the creative industries and beyond.
- Never having to face life’s problems, challenges, and celebrations alone!
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Running time: 1 to 3 hour concerts per event, frequency ad hoc
- Road Recovery draws upon national and local musicians and/or artists, poets, painters, dancers, comedians and Road Recovery young adult participants from Road Recovery’s Performance Workshops Program at these live concert events.
- Road Recovery works with a variety of music performers in varying genres – rock, R&B, rap/hip-hop, folk, jazz, etc.
- Road Recovery’s Live Concert Events debunk the “sex, drugs and rock & roll” myth by providing audience members of all ages the opportunity to hear first-hand testimony from entertainers and young adult participants from Road Recovery’s Performance Workshops Program whose lives have been negatively affected by addiction or other adversities .
- When applicable, Road Recovery provides off-stage small group discussion forums that allow the performing artists to share their first-hand experience dealing with addiction or other adversities in their lives. The post-performance small group discussion forums engage audience members in an interactive discussion about the affects of addiction and other adversities, while weighing the positive real life experiences to support the performers’ healthy lifestyle choices. (please note: Road Recovery’s off-stage small group discussion forums can be tailored to address other subjects: i.e. depression, anxiety, etc...).
When applicable, Road Recovery onsite booth(s) allows the performing artists to interact with audience members face to face, answer questions, sign autographs, and distribute resource information to attendees. Road Recovery on-site booth(s) help publicizes local area support networks, crisis intervention resources, and sponsors supporting the Live Concert Event.
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