for more information on national recovery month , to find out how to get involved or to locate an event near you, visit the recovery month web site at recoverymonth.gov. treat me, treat me with understanding. treat me with courtesy. drug and alcohol addiction is an equal opportunity disease. individuals in recovery come from all walks of life and deserve to be treated with respect and admiration for winning one of the hardest battles there is. treat me without judgment. treat me ... with humanity. alcohol and drug addiction deserves proper treatment. for drug and alcohol information and treatment referral, call 1-800-662-help. [music] understanding the impact of trauma on the justice system is an integral part of the dependency drug court system in sacremento california dependency drug court brings together the superior court, child protection services, alcohol and drug services, sacramento child advocates, parents advocates of sacramento, dependency associates of sacramento, bridges' stars program, and sacramento treatment providers. parents in the program not only receive treatment, b

for more than 20 years, national recovery month has honored and celebrated persons in recovery and helped to educate and inform others about the process of recovery. we know that almost 1 in 10 americans struggle with a substance use disorder and that about 1 in 5 americans has a mental health problem. treatment and recovery are the pathway forward for these individuals, a pathway leading to improved family relationships, health and well-being, hope for the future, and purpose in the sustainment of their recovery. as we hear and see their stories, we will learn that recovery happens through many different pathways and that, in every journey, recovery depends on supportive relationships marked by care, support, and respect. this year marks the 22nd year of recovery month , and this year we have broadened it to incorporate recovery from mental health problems along with substance use disorders. recovery should be the common goal, whether one is dealing with mental or substance use disorders or both. i encourage you to visit recoverymonth.gov to learn more about the celebrations, events, and

every september, national recovery month provides an opportunity for communities like yours to raise awareness of substance use and mental health problems to highlight the effectiveness of treatment and that people can and do recover. in order to help you plan events and activities in commemoration of this years' recovery month observance, the free recovery month kit offers ideas, materials, and tools for planning, organizing, and realizing an event or outreach campaign that matches your goals and resources. to obtain your copy of this year's recovery month kit and gain access to other free publications and materials related to recovery issues, visit the recovery month web site at www.recoverymonth.gov or call 1-800-662-help. [music] [music] paratransit is specialized transportation for seniors and people with disabilities who are unable to use the muni system. in san francisco, we're proud that we've had a paratransit program since 1978 long before it was mandated by the americans with disabilities act in 1990. san francisco is a unique city and our paratransit program reflects this

i want to remind our audience that national recovery month is every september.our information package this year is on healthcare reform issues, so i hope that the leaders in communities take a look at it and organize events and activities around getting information out to the public about the new healthcare reform and the aca. thank you for being here. for a copy of this program or other programs in the road to recovery series, call samhsa at 1-800-662-help or order online at recoverymonth.gov and click multimedia. every september national recovery month provides an opportunity for communities like yours to raise awareness of substance use and mental health problems to highlight the effectiveness of treatment and that people can and do recover. in order to help you plan events and activities in commemoration of this year's recovery month observance, the free recovery month kit offers ideas, materials, and tools for planning, organizing, and realizing an event or outreach campaign that matches your goals and resources. to obtain your copy of this year's recovery

every september, national recovery month provides an opportunity for communities like yours to raise awareness of substance use and mental health problems, to highlight the effectiveness of treatment and that people can and do recover. in order to help you plan events and activities in commemoration of this year's recovery month observance, the free recovery month kit offers ideas, materials, and tools for planning, organizing, and realizing an event or outreach campaign that matches your goals and resources. to obtain your copy of this year's recovery month kit and gain access to other free publications and materials related to recovery issues, visit the recovery month web site at www.recoverymonth.gov or call 1-800-662-help. [music] >> thank you for your patience. i m leader pelosi's district rector in san francisco. i've been with the for about nine years, and we are excited to put on this forum today to help people learn how they can access credit and capital for their small business. click background on some of what was accomplished in the last congress when later closing was sp

[music] for more information on national recovery month to find out how to get involved or to locate an event t near y, visit the recovery month web site at recoverymonth.gov. when you have a drug or alcohol problem, your whole world stops making sense. you can get help for yourself or a loved one and make sense of life again. for information, treatment referral, and, most importantly, help, call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. they tell me i was there, but i don't remember. i don't know where i really was. i do not know what i had for breakfast. i do not know who won the game. i don't recognize this man. if you or someone you know is struggling with a drug or alcohol problem, there is a solution-recovery. call 1-800-662-help for information and for hope. through treatment, my life is a whole lot brighter now. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] columbus house provides shelter, emergency shelter services to single men and women. and we do that year round, we are most known for that service. in

for more information on national recovery month , to find out how to get involved, or to locate an event near you, visit the recovery month web site at recoverymonth.gov. they tell me i was there but i don't remember. i don't know where i really was. i do not know what i had for breakfast. i do not know who won the game. i don't recognize this man. if you or someone you know is struggling with a drug or alcohol problem, there is a solution. recovery. call 1-800-662-help for information and for hope. through treatment my life's a whole lot brighter now. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services [music] so, screening and brief intervention is what we call a secondary prevention approach. so, it is a way of intercepting people who might be already engaging in risky substance abuse behavior and trying to reduce their abuse and reduce the harm that they might experience from their substance use. we decided to do our intervention in this mental health clinic. and that's something that hadn't been done before, so we decided to use this very brief screening and brief int

mark kelly, documented her months of difficult rehabilitation, staying by her side every step of the journey. >> one nation under god. >> reporter: 41-year-old giffords' recovery has been remarkable. earlier this month she took part in ceremonies marking the first anniversary of the event that forever changed so many lives. giffords plans to be at the capitol on tuesday for the president's state of the union speech. and though she's leaving congress, giffords said she'll return. >> i'm getting better. every day my spirit is high. thank you very much. >> reporter: larry jacobs, abc news. >> that's a remarkable story there, the way she has recovered. i don't think this really surprises anybody. she 4 such a traumatic injury, she has tyke time away from the rigors of political life to kind of get herself back together. >> and abc news is reporting that not everyone thinks a return to congress sometime down the road, when she has completely recovered, is off the table. but she is going to a very prestigious rehabilitation institute in houston, one of the top five in the country. >> you look at the way she's recovered so far i would not take anything off the table.

recovery going. >> reporter: so jack liu takes over at the end of the month -- lew. he has never run a major national and surprising to change your chief of staff at the beginning of election year. >> shep: white house is pushing back on a new book on the administration's inner workings. >> it's written by jodie cantor, they are not happy with it. because it portrays the staff, back to the rahm emanuel. fighting with valerie and clashing with michelle obama on healthcare. but there is anecdote about robert gibbs cursing the first lady in private whether gibbs was handling a media report well enough. jay carney would not dispute it but in general a lot of this is overblown. take a listen. >> this is remarkably harmonious place given everything is at stake and the enormity of issues that are discussed. >> reporter: he will be sticking around, campaign cochairman back in his home of chicago. aides say gibbs will have a role in 2012 even though with the first lady. >> shep: ed henry at harmonious white house. >> economy could be turning around. according to the federal reserve americans are feeling confi

recovery right now, we would have seen several percentage points of additional growth because of construction that would normally take months. and unlike some people, you know, in florida this is probable less true. nationallythis is not just uniformly we built way too much housing that we have to work through. there really is a significant problem with this sort of backlog of foreclosure. all the people who are sort of facing foreclosure, the variety majority of those homes, somebody is living in. and so the issue is the instability of that ownership and the modification and that whole process that's pushing prices down, even as we're in a place where, you know, we are seeing some demographic growth. >> chris mayoher, thanks so muc. it's nice to see you. i think as we go through this campaign season, people say we'll be headed to the ballot box. no question, about housing. >>> your bottom line when it comes to housing, we don't know when it will truly recovery, but the signs are technically there. record low mortgage rates, home prices down 30% on average from the peak. best affordability in some places in years. so the seeds are there. if you can afford to buy, this might be that moment. make sure your cr

added more than 200,000 jobs last month, beating expectations and raising hopes that a stronger recovery might be underway. spurred by a surge in hiring in december, the nation ended 2011 with a jobs report that had some of the best numbers seen in some time. among them, the unemployment rate-- down to 8.5%-- the lowest in nearly three years, and falling for the fourth consecutive month. the economy has now added 100,000 jobs or more for each of the last six months. that hasn't happened since april 2006. and the drop in the jobless rate came from new hires, not discouraged workers giving up the job hunt. for president obama, it was welcome relief. he spoke today at the consumer financial protection bureau. >> after losing more than eight million jobs in the recession, obviously, you know, we have a lot more work to do. but it is important for the american people to recognize that we've now added 3.2 million new private sector jobs over the last 22 months, nearly two million new jobs last year alone. >> brown: republican house speaker john boehner released a statement calling it: "good news" but he noted: "today marks the 35th consecutive month of unemploymen

nation must address inequality. in an election year state of the union message that will serve as the template of months of campaigning ahead, he outlined prescriptions to reinforce the tentative economic recoverycindy rights this. the obstructionist party will not play well for the next eight months. david on the republican line in tennessee, good morning. caller: my first time ever calling about anything political. host: we are glad to call -- we are glad to hear from you. caller: the president's speech last night, i felt, was more of -- more of a campaign speech than a state of the union speech. it seemed like that as he was campaigning, he seems to be using all of our dollars to do all of these things, to fly off here and there. host: thank you for the call. let's go back to the usa today and the story by richard wald indicating that the republican national committee began running television ads in three battleground states. what difference statistics, 13 million people unemployed, 49 million people in poverty. reince priebus says that the president's sole priority is getting reelected. there is that 30-second ad from the rnc. [video clip] >> if they do not have this done in three years it

nation. the president will take the recent note of a stroke by senator mark kerr. his chances for recovery are good but it will be difficult weeks and months. republicans and democrats in both instances will take careful notes of their difficulties, their struggles. those of the moments that signal that those are a lot of disagreements. they can reflect on something deeper. >> while we're staying on that scene, some delegations are making a particular effort by sitting together in bipartisan manner. what do you know about those efforts? >> i do not know a lot. i must tell you and your audience i spent the last four days in in tampa bay working on what they did with the tampa bay times. i flew back to washington this morning. i have been immersed in the preparations for that debate. in main what we're going to see on the floor of the house is a symbolic association of bipartisanship. one of the reasons you will see this, all this election year will be to try to convey that they are not as hostile and ideologically fixed as they might have been last year. >> the state of the union is in the constitution. the language suggests that the presid

nation our recovery is underway. there's also the question of how the american people feel. you have 74% of people who think that the country is on the wrong track and it is the 93rd consecutive monththink that we're on the wrong track. there is a global survey done every year and 30,000 people surveyed, 30 countries all around the world. the trend is a total collapse of trust in government, not just in the united states. i don't mean this as a partisan statement. this applies to both parties. you see that occurring globally. unemployment will remain high. people are pessimistic. people don't trust the government. people don't think the country is heading in the right direction. the fundamental challenge for a the president in that environment and all presidents have a 66% chance on the odds of getting reelected. his challenge is to create -- is to communicate that tomorrow will be better than today. i think that his reelection is difficult absent the ability to communicate that. that is what the american people are looking for. who will make this better, the one thing is that everyone agrees that universally in the country that it is not going in the right direction and these are