Patty McCarthy

Patty McCarthy, MS, is the CEO of Faces & Voices of Recovery, a national recovery advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Faces & Voices, she was a senior associate with the Center for Social Innovation (C4), where she served as a deputy director of SAMHSA’s BRSS TACS initiative. McCarthy served for a decade as the director of Friends of Recovery-Vermont (FOR-VT), a statewide RCO conducting training, advocacy, and public awareness activities. In addition to public policy and education, her work has focused on community mobilizing, peer-based recovery support services, and peer workforce development. McCarthy has been instrumental in the development of a national accreditation for RCOs and in the development of peer-support standards. She holds a master’s degree in community counseling and a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and has been in long-term recovery since 1989.