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Task Force helps with holiday turkey donations
The Recorder - Monday, November 21, 2016 GREENFIELD — The Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region is teaming up with Big Y Foods to lighten the load faced by some during the holiday season. Until Thanksgiving, the task force will distribute...
Giving Back in Greenfield – 3rd Annual Toy Drive
GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The City of Greenfield is working to make sure no child in the city wakes up on Christmas morning without gifts under the tree. The 3rd annual “Giving Back in Greenfield” toy drive has officially started. The city is asking for new and/or...
Narcan case aims to increase awareness, save lives
By TOM RELIHAN For the Gazette Tuesday, November 15, 2016 GREENFIELD — Minutes matter when a person is experiencing an opioid overdose, and the quicker a person can administer the life-saving medication Narcan, the better are the odds of survival. Now, one local...
The them are now us
By TOM RELIHAN Recorder Staff Wednesday, October 26, 2016 GREENFIELD — Despite a coordinated push over the last few years to increase substance abuse support and recovery services in Franklin County, there are still some holes in the net. State Senate President...
Ask the Wellness Guru
Guide for Parents -A supplement of The Greenfield Recorder produced by the Communities the Care Coalition Wednesday September 7th 2016 Ask the Wellness Guru (aka Michael Lewis, RECOVER Project Director and Facilitator of the Nurturing Fathers Program)
How we’re missing the real story on mental health in Massachusetts
BOSTON GLOBE -AUGUST 12, 2016 OPINION | By Sera Davidow THE AVERAGE citizen has now heard (multiple times) the story of people with psychiatric diagnoses who are slipping through the state’s cracks, how their families are desperate but lack resources, and how the...
An Alternative Form of Mental Health Care Gains a Foothold
By BENEDICT CAREY New York Times - AUG. 8, 2016 HOLYOKE, Mass. — Some of the voices inside Caroline White’s head have been a lifelong comfort, as protective as a favorite aunt. It was the others — “you’re nothing, they’re out to get you, to kill you” — that led her...
An Alternative Form of Mental Health Care Gains a Foothold
By Benedict Carey Aug. 8, 2016 HOLYOKE, Mass. — Some of the voices inside Caroline White’s head have been a lifelong comfort, as protective as a favorite aunt. It was the others — “you’re nothing, they’re out to get you, to kill you” — that led her down a rabbit hole...
13th Annual West Region Self Advocacy Conference!
Consortium's Self-Advocacy program will be hosting its 13th Annual West Region Self Advocacy Conference! Saturday May 21, 2016, 9:00am – 3:15pm Sheraton, 1 Monarch Place, Springfield, MA 01144 The 2016 West Region Self-Advocacy conference will offer a chance for...
RECOVER Project Director Overcame Addiction
By Dan Desrosiers For The Recorder Friday, April 15, 2016 Michael Lewis, director of the RECOVER Project in Greenfield, hasn’t even been able to get his coat off, and he has been at work for a half-hour already. The women’s writing group needs to be let in and...