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Human Service Forum’s Community Builders Celebration Recognizes Consortium Community Leaders
Thank you to Human Service Forum for recognizing some of our amazing community leaders at Home and Community Connection, Northampton Recovery Center and the Support Network during their Community Builder Celebration event on May 25th! According to the Human Service...
Data shows local opioid deaths soaring amid pandemic
By CHRIS LARABEE Staff Writer Published: 5/24/2022 5:15:26 [...] The Community Opportunity, Network, Navigation, Exploration and Connection Team (CONNECT) is a 24/7 rapid response team created by the Opioid Task Force and a partnership that includes The RECOVER...
Spring Medicinal and Pollinator Plant Sales
Looking to add some new green to your garden? People's Medicine Project is sharing plant seedlings with people who attend our free clinics and community groups that are planting medicinal gardens. Your purchase of plants helps fund this work towards herbal...
Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.
By Daniel BergnerMay 17, 2022New York Times [...] Around that time, in the late 2000s, when Mazel-Carlton was in her mid-20s, a new position arose in mental health: peer-support specialist, someone with what’s known as lived experience who works alongside...
$127K grant to support extra housing advocate for domestic abuse victims
Becky Lockwood, director of the Salasin Project in Greenfield, talks with Individual and Family Support Advocate Jill Predmore. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ By MARY BYRNEStaff WriterPublished: 5/13/2022 3:07:35 PMModified: 5/13/2022 3:05:57 PM GREENFIELD — A local program...
Volunteers mobilize for spring cleanups along area roads, woods
Kara Kavanaugh, the recovery coach program supervisor at The RECOVER Project, paints the front window on Friday. For the Recorder/Catherine Hurley[/caption] By CHRIS LARABEE, JULIAN MENDOZA and CATHERINE HURLEYStaff Writers As the weather warms up and people...
Baystate Health awards $1M to five community initiatives
Published: Apr. 14, 2022, 9:07 a.m. By Ray Kelly SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Health has awarded $1 million in Better Together Grants to five community initiatives with partner organizations as part of its Community Benefits Program. “Baystate Health is proud to invest our...
Join Support Network’s Children’s Mental Health Week Event
Children's Mental Health Week 2022: Understanding Teen Depression Join the Support Network as we welcome speakers from Families for Depression Awareness for a conversation about the signs, symptoms and interventions for teen depression. Hear a young person's...
Salasin Project Receives $127,000 grant from MA COVID 19 Survivor Trust Fund
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Becky Lockwood, Salasin Project Director(413) 887-2000 Salasin Project Receives $127,000 grant from MA COVID 19 Survivor Trust Fund GREENFIELD, MA March 29, 2022 – The Salasin Project, a program of the Western Massachusetts...
Trusting People as Experts of Themselves: Sera Davidow on the Wildflower Peer Support Line
An interview with Sera Davidow, Executive Director of Wildflower Alliance on their Peer Support Line and the founding principles of not tracing calls or contacting police without consent. Mad in America By Karin Jervert - March 30, 2022 Sera Davidow is a filmmaker,...