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April 2020

• 7Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series for adults and teens
• 14Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series for adults and teens
• 21Intervention to Durable Recovery: The Power of Family. Dawn Farm Education Series. by Debra Jay and Jeff Jay; best-selling authors, speakers, clinicians and educators.
• 28  A History of the Basic Text of Narcotics Anonymous Dawn Farm Education Series. by Chris Budnick, MSW, LCSW, LCAS, CCS. 

April 2019

• 2Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series for adults and teens
• 9Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series for adults and teens
• 16Intervention to Durable Recovery: The Power of Family. Dawn Farm Education Series. by Debra Jay and Jeff Jay; best-selling authors, speakers, clinicians and educators.
• 23 People Like Me: Mutual Aid and Recovery from Substance Use DisordersDawn Farm Education Series. by Todd Diana, Dawn Farm staff 
• 30 Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical KinshipDawn Farm Education Series.  by Gregory Boyle; founder of Homeboy Industries and best-selling author.  

April 2018

• 3Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series for adults and teens
• 10Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series for adults and teens
• 17 Cultivating Mindfulness to Support Recovery. Dawn Farm Education Series. 
• 24 Suicide Prevention and Addiction.  Dawn Farm Education Series. 

April 2017

• 4Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series
• 5 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.
• 11Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series
• 12 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.
• 18  Grief and Loss in Addiction and Recovery  Dawn Farm Education Series. 
• 19 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.
• 20  Emerging from the Darkness: The End of the Drug War and the Rise of RecoveryDawn Farm Education Series. 
• 21 The Brain and Recovery: An Update on the Neuroscience of Addiction.   Dawn Farm Education Series.  
• 25  Spirituality in Recovery: The Many Paths to Spiritual Fitness.  Dawn Farm Education Series.  
• 26 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.
• 30  Dawn Farm 8th Annual Ride for Recovery - cyclng events 5K to 100K, runs/walks 5K and 10K.  

April 2016

• 5Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series
• 6 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.
• 12Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series
• 13 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.
• 19  Grief and Loss in Addiction and Recovery by Janice Firn, LMSW, and Barb Smith, Part of the Dawn Farm Education Series. 
• 20 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.
• 26  Dawn Farm Seventh Annual Ride for Recovery - cyclng events 5K to 100K, runs/walks 5K and 10K. 
• 26  Christian Spirituality and Recovery From Addiction by Brother Ed Conlin.  Part of the Dawn Farm Education Series.
• 27 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.

April 2015

• 8Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do - free 2-part education series

• 1 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.

• 7   Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series

• 8 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.

• 14  Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series

• 15 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.

• 21 Intervention by Jeff Jay and Debra Jay; Intervention specialists, chemical dependency therapists and trainers, and best-selling authors of “Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention” and other books.  Part of the Dawn Farm Education Series.

• 22 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.

• 26  Dawn Farm Sixth Annual Ride for Recovery - cycle events 5K to 100K, runs/walks 5K and 10K. 

• 28 Tobacco Cessation and Addiction Recovery by Anna Byberg, LLMSW, CAADC; Program Coordinator, Dawn Farm Spera Recovery Center; and Aaron Suganuma, BSW.  Part of the Dawn Farm Education Series.

• 29 Dawn Farm Family Matters; free support and education group.

April 2014

• 4Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series

• 11 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series
• 12 Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra presents Season Finale: Brahms Festival
• 15 Dawn Farm Education Series : Alcoholics Anonymous: A Panel Discussion
• 22 Dawn Farm Education Series In the Doctor's Office: Recovery Friend or Foe?, presented by Mark A. Weiner, MD; and Matthew Statman, LMSW, CAADC
• 27 Dawn Farm Ride for Recovery with 10-100k bike rides, 5 and 10 k walk/runs. 
• 29 Dawn Farm Education Series Al-Anon: A Panel Discussion

April 2013

• 2 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series

• 9 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series
• 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 29 Fitness Challenge - Free and open to A2/Ypsi, all fitness levels welcome! Held on M/W/F in Buhr Park, A2 from 6:30-7:30 pm. Awards ceremony May 10

• 16 Dawn Farm Education Series In the Doctor's Office: Recovery Friend or Foe?, presented by Mark A. Weiner, MD; and Matthew Statman, LMSW, CAADC

• 23 Dawn Farm Education Series Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction, presented by Rabbi Yisrael Pinson

• Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 27, 2013, for Spring planting at Mary Beth Doyle Park.
• 27 Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra's Season Finale: Mahler's 6th Symphony at the Michigan Theater 8pm
• 28 Dawn Farm Fourth Annual Ride for Recovery 5 K and 10 K run/walk; 10 K, 25 mile, 40 mile and 100 K bike rides; family fun activities - all benefit Dawn Farm
• 30 Dawn Farm Education Series The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse, presented by Barbara Niess May, MPA, MSW; Executive Director, SafeHouse Center; and David J.H. Garvin, LMSW; Director, Alternatives to Domestic Aggression, Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

April 2012

• 3 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series

• 10 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series

• 27 The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse - Dawn Farm Education Series by Barbara Niess May, MPH, MSW; and David J.H. Garvin, LMSW

• 27 Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction - Dawn Farm Education Series by Rabbi Yisrael Pinson

• 29 Dawn Farm Third Annual Ride for Recovery! run/walk/bike ride/family fun activities, all benefits Dawn Farm

April 2011

• 5 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series

• 12 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series

• 19 Dawn Farm Education Series A History of Alcoholics Anonymous, by James Balmer; President, Dawn Farm

• 26 Dawn Farm Education Series The Physiology of Addiction, by Carl Christensen, MD, Ph.D.; Addictionologist.

April 2010 events

• 1 APRIL FOOLS!!!
• 3 Monroe Street Fair
• 6 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series
• 10-11 38th Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, Saline Middle School in Saline, MI.
• 11 FestiFools downtown Ann Arbor puppet parade
• 12 Yuri's Night [1]
• 13 Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do free workshop series
• 13-15 SAE Congress, Cobo Center, Detroit
• 17 Fiber Feast, Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild
• 17-18 Ann Arbor Orchid Society Festival
• 20 Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction free workshop
• 24 Pioneer Theatre Guild production of Footloose
• 24 Smithee Awards
• 25 Earth Day Festival
• 25 All Species Parade
• 27 Psychiatric Disorders in Chemically Dependent Individuals: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations free workshop

2009 events

• 1 APRIL FOOLS!!!
• 4 Monroe Street Fair
• 5 Festifools downtown Ann Arbor puppet parade
• 6 Things to do on a snow day
• 8 LA2M Weds marketing lunch, Celtic Room
• 9 a2b3 Thurs lunch, Eastern Accents, organized by Ed
• 9 CloudCamp Ann Arbor at Google, organized by a2geeks
• 11 Spring Bicycle Fix-Up 2d annual by East Quad Bike Co-op
• 12 Easter celebrated in Western tradition
• 16 a2b3 Thurs lunch, Eastern Accents, organized by Ed
• 17 Wear sunscreen!
• 18 Ann Arbor Fiber Arts Guild show Fiber Feast at Morris Lawrence
• 19 Easter celebrated in Eastern Orthodox tradition
• 19 Ann Arbor Orchid Festival at Matthaei Botanical Gardens
• 20-23 SAE Congress, Cobo Center
• 22 Google Earth Day conference at Dana Building
• 23 Agile Groupies at SPARK
• 25 Dodge thunderstorms!
• 25 Endurance 5K
• 25-26 Urinetown: spring musical from Pioneer Theatre Guild
• 26 Earth Day Festival at Leslie Science & Nature Center
• 26 Ann Arbor Classic Bicycle & Minibike Show
• 30 Huron River Watershed Council annual meeting at Matthaei Botanical Gardens
• 30 Spring Into Service non-profit board recruiting event, Kensington Court Hotel, sponsored by BoardConnect