by LaMara HunterKelly | Nov 30, 2019 | In The News
By MAUREEN O’REILLY and MAX MARCUS
Staff Writers
Published: 11/30/2019 11:00:52 AM
After a recent service at the First Congregational Church in Ashfield, some of the churchgoers gathered upstairs to make herbal medicines and thank-you cards for migrant agricultural workers throughout Pioneer Valley.
The church has partnered with the People’s Medicine Project, an organization that first began as a community garden and has since added additional educational pieces, said the project’s director, Leslie Chaison, who is also a congregant at First Congregational Church.
“We try to bridge wellness resources in our community with community need,” Chaison said, of the goal of People’s Medicine Project…
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by LaMara HunterKelly | Nov 26, 2019 | In The News
November 26, 2019
Contact: Abby Ferla, People’s Medicine Project
(413) 523-3791 ; [email protected]
People’s Medicine Project’s long-time client and friend Peter Hadley is launching a new catering company BASH, making its Pioneer Valley debut with an elaborate locally-sourced Tapas Style Dinner at Greenfield’s Hawks and Reed on Wednesday December 4th from 6-8PM! BASH emphasizes quality above convenience in both service and food preparation, with custom services to fit each client’s needs while focusing on supporting local resources and remaining environmentally mindful!
Please join People’s Medicine for an innovative and delicious spin on the Spanish tapas tradition of small portions, using organic, local, and sustainably-sourced ingredients. Enjoy live jazz piano by the masterful Khaliff Neville (of the Neville Brothers) while you eat and sample a signature non-alcoholic botanical drink at the full service bar. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the People’s Medicine Project, a Health Justice organization and free alternative health clinic. Members of the Project will be present to speak about their organization’s community-sustaining work. Tickets can be purchased through the Hawks and Reed website at:
https://hawksandreed.ticketfly.com/e/bash-a-tapas-style-dinner-raising-funds-for-the-people-s-medicine-project-81549995231/
Or, save the ticket fee, by calling Hawks and Reed directly at (413) 774-0150 – leave your name, your phone number and that you’re interested in tickets to BASH and they will call you back!
Finally, be sure to ACT QUICKLY, because People’s Medicine is giving away **FREE TICKETS** to the first FIVE people who sign up to be sustaining donors before the event. Sustaining donors are the backbone of PMP. Becoming a sustaining donor means YOU support the vitally important work of increasing access to alternative and complementary medicine, and YOUR bold ongoing commitment promotes heath justice in our community. Visit peoplesmedicineproject.com/donate TODAY to become a sustaining donor! And don’t worry, even if you’re not one of the lucky first five to sign up, anyone who pledges to be a sustaining donor during PMP’s Giving Tuesday campaign, will receive a fabulous PMP t-shirt designed by Carol at Taproot Threads!
by LaMara HunterKelly | Nov 26, 2019 | In The News
By KRISTEL APPLEBEE, Consortium Executive Director
For the Gazette
Published: 11/26/2019 12:01:19 AM
The term “opioid epidemic” has become as American as apple pie in our nation’s lexicon. Here in western Massachusetts, communities have been hit hard by the crisis, with families grieving unthinkable losses. It seems most people know someone impacted. As a result, funding for opioid education, treatment, and prevention has increased; this concentrated community focus on solutions has also brought support for the peer recovery movement, specifically through recovery support centers funded by the state.
Treatment is a critical piece of the recovery continuum of care, offering a foothold to those in the deep throes of addiction. But treatment alone is not enough. Having a welcoming place for folks in early recovery to connect, heal and grow by participating and sharing with one another, can provide a solid foundation for lifelong recovery. Many people in recovery find they need support throughout their lives. Though recovery is an inside job, a supportive community is the key to success…
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by LaMara HunterKelly | Nov 1, 2019 | In The News
Amie Hyson listens during a rehearsal for “What Our Voices Carry”, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019 at Shea Theater in Turners Falls.By LUIS FIELDMAN
Staff Writer
Published: 11/1/2019 10:01:42 PM
Through prose and poetry, women of the group Voices From Inside find a way to express experiences that are often too difficult to talk about, whether it’s life inside of a prison or recovering from drug addiction…
“We are putting these words together to create scenes that enable us to show what women go through who are incarcerated, who have been incarcerated, who are in recovery, who have experienced domestic violence or sexual trafficking,” said Amie Hyson, a Greenfield resident who discovered Voices From Inside in March 2017 and is an actress in the play.
While in long-term recovery from prescription pain medications at The RECOVER Project in Greenfield, Hyson formed bonds with other women in the Voices From Inside workshops where women could open up about painful experiences through their writing in an environment free from personal criticism…
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