Tom Aswad has been a resident of Contra Costa County for over forty-seven years. He has been a property manager and owner for twenty-nine years and currently owns his own investment company. He went through a twenty- eight day residential program sixteen years ago at Mt. Diablo hospital in Concord and has been clean since then. He has been a community volunteer for over fourteen years and served on the Contra Costa Alcohol and Other drugs Advisory Board appointed by the County Board of Supervisors from 1992 to 2007. He has served as both Chair or Vice-Chair for a combined time of almost nine years. Tom has sat on many community based Committees and Boards including the Little Hoover Commission in Sacramento. He has been invited to Washington D.C. by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to facilitate a workshop on ensuring that the grassroots voice is heard. He served as State and National liaison for Partners in Recovery Alliance of Contra Costa County which was a grassroots organization to train its members on the power of the voice of recovery when it comes to advocating for local politics that effect treatment and prevention. Tom has been successful with his local advocacy that has lead to many changes within the Alcohol and Other Drugs system. He has also been recognized by the PTA and the California Alcohol and drug Program Administrators Association of California for the re-introduction of Narcotics Anonymous of Contra Costa County within the local jail system. He is also the founder of the Sober Living Task Force of Contra Costa County. Tom’s commitment has always been to serve those who do not have or feel that they have an important voice and expertise to share with local politicians. Recently he has seen the need for a support system for people in recovery and the need for their voice to be heard. That is why he has co-founded Support4Recovery.

Judy Bastin has been active in the recovery community since 1985. She has been a resident of Concord since 1991. She works as a Certified Yoga teacher and Counselor at John Muir Behavioral Health Center in Concord. Judy volunteers at San Quentin Prison with the men who created a peer to peer drug treatment program. She has also served on the Contra Costa County Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board. Support 4 Recovery is an excellent platform for the the Recovery Community to have a voice. Judy is dedicated to helping that voice be heard. She can be contacted at  judy@support4recovery.org.   Amy Alanes has been a resident of Contra Costa County for over 32 years. She has worked as a manager in the non-profit sector for over eleven years. She spent over nine of those years in various roles at a community-based outpatient treatment center. She participated in the planning and establishment of a non-profit multi-service center for community members in need of substance abuse/recovery services. She also helped launch various programs including an outpatient perinatal treatment program and childcare center, Proposition 36 services, an adolescent drug court in West County, and HIV/AIDS case management and substance abuse coordination services. Amy has served on the Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board and has been involved in several focus groups aimed to improve services provided within the community to those with greatest need. Amy’s personal life has been touched by family addictions and recovery. Amy feels these personal experiences have provided her with the passion, understanding and commitment she has to the recovery community. Amy is currently attending college, pursuing her educational goals towards and advanced business degree in nonprofit leadership. When she is not advocating for those who are underserved she enjoys spending time with her family, reading and writing short stories, hiking and working out.

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