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Carter County Connects for Prevention
June 2020 Update
Please complete a membership form to make sure you stay updated on CCDP happenings! |
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Our next monthly coalition meeting will be
July 1, 2020 at 3pm via Zoom.
CCDP Monthly Meeting
This is a recurring meeting
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81627860053
Meeting ID: 816 2786 0053
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Our speaker will be:
Tennessee Reconnect is an initiative to help more adults return to higher education to gain new skills, advance in the workplace, and fulfill lifelong dreams of completing a degree or credential.
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Molly Gochman first launched Red Sand Project in 2014, after realizing the depths to which slavery continues to be a contemporary reality. Globally, an estimated 40.3 million individuals live in slavery, whether in forced marriages, forced labor, or for sexual exploitation. Molly recognized that to begin finding a solution to such a widespread challenge, increased public awareness and engagement would be essential. She initiated the first Red Sand Project action in Miami, where she filled the cracks of sidewalks in and around the Art Basel Miami Beach pavilion with red sand. The approach was symbolic, with the grains of sand representing those individuals who fall through the cracks—whether the cracks of our social, economic, and political systems or those of our personal consciousness. To expand the reach of the project, Molly launched this website offering Red Sand Project toolkits, which include packets of red sand and information about slavery and trafficking in the U.S. and across the world, giving participants a way to physically engage with the cause and to build discussions around the action. Today, Red Sand Project actions have been done in all 50 states and in 70 countries, with more than one million participants.In 2015, Molly added earthworks — large-scale, site-specific outdoor land art installations — to Red Sand Project. Stretching hundreds of feet long in the shapes of political borders, earthworks highlight the ways in which borders, drawn arbitrarily through history, divide communities and make individuals more vulnerable to trafficking. Red Sand Project has installed four earthworks to date, with more planned in the future.
More info about joining us here!
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PEAK Progress: Spotlight on Mentoring
The PEAK Mentoring program is excited to give an update on last month's events. First, the PEAK Mentoring Program is proud to announce that The United Way of Elizabethton Carter/Johnson counites, has awarded $700 to the program. The funds will be used to purchase tablets for the mentees currently in the program experiencing digital divide. Also, the program gave $100 of gift certificates to its current mentees from Food City in Elizabethton. The gift certificates were provided from the United Way of Elizabethton Carter/Johnson Counties. Furthermore, the Elizabethton Star posted an article the fourth week of June 2020, about how the mentoring program is moving forward and helping kids during this unprecedented time. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer for our program and willing to make a one-year commitment to an at-risk youth. Please email Shannon Payne at elizabethtonmentors@outlook.com or call or text 423-791-8624 for more information. Please check us out on Facebook and Instagram. Have a Happy and safe fourth of July!
Elizabethton Star feature on PEAK Mentors
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Beginning July 3rd, SADD Nation will be hosting an eight week fundraising virtual race. Everyone is welcome to enter with a small entrance fee of $10 for SADD students and $20 for adults. All participants will receive a SADD t-shirt. Remember, there are numerous ways to raise money for this event! One example: you can ask your friends to fundraise with you; either by distance logged or per pound lost.There are also various ways to go about this experience; you can run, walk or bike. Sync your fitness device (Fitbit, Apple Watch, Garmin, Misfit, Strava, Google Fit), download the free charity footprints app or manually add your steps to the event page and track your progress throughout the event to track your progress. 50% of the funds collected will be given to SADD (nationally) and the other half will be given back to our very own CCDP/TEACH SADD chapter! In addition to receiving half of the funds, prizes will be awarded for fundraising. If you raise $50 you will receive a set of power bracelets, but if you raise $500, you will get a pizza party for your entire team. This fundraiser is a great opportunity to not only set fundraiser goals, but fitness goals as well. This event will continue until August 19th.
Ready, Set, Register!
www.charityfootprints.com/SAD
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Ballad Health offers new help line for people living with substance use issues
Call 877.PEERHLP
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If you haven't yet taken our needs assessment questionaire, please do so! We would love to have your input into community needs and strengths.
Needs Assessment Survey |
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This support group for Parents of Addicted Loved Ones is held through
zoom meetings on Thursdays at 6pm for the first three weeks of the month and then an in person meeting at CCDP the last Thursday of the month from 6-8.
If you need more information, contact:
Jessica Broyles
423-512-1509 (for text messages only)
Jessbroyles.pal@yahoo.com
www.palgroup.org
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Tuesday
8:00 pm
Friday
8:00 pm
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Family Support Group meets at the Carter County Drug Prevention office every other Monday at 6 PM.
The purpose of their meeting is to learn from each other how we can best support our friends and loved ones who struggle with addiction while still taking care of ourselves in a healthy way.
This group is facilitated by Kim Nave, therapist with Frontier Health.
Everyone is welcome! |
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Carter County Drug Prevention is an anti-drug coalition designed to bring together diverse organizations, factions or constituencies who agree to work together to achieve a common goal.
VISION: To create a safe and healthy Carter County.
MISSION: Reduce substance abuse through collaborative planning, community action, and policy advocacy.
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