Throughout September, WFAD and the Recovered Users Network (RUN) are coming together to celebrate recovery, recognise resilience, challenge stigma, and highlight the people, organisations, and communities supporting recovery around the world.

Recovery is a long-term process. Access to appropriate treatment and continued support can play an important role, but so do the resources people can draw on in their everyday lives: their own strengths and skills, supportive relationships and connections, and communities that provide opportunities, stability and access to support. Strengthening these different forms of recovery capital can help people build and sustain recovery over time.

Over the coming weeks, we will share stories, voices, and initiatives from across our networks, highlight the work supporting recovery around the world, and reflect on how respectful language can help reduce stigma.

By bringing these voices and experiences together, we want to make recovery more visible, recognise the strength and resilience involved, celebrate the work that supports it, and reinforce a simple but important message: recovery is possible