Category: Bordentown Register News
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Certified Peer Recovery Specialist training offered in May
The Center for Addiction & Recovery Education & Success (CARES) through a Prevention is Key (PIK) special project will offer Certified Peer Recovery Specialist Training virtually starting May 9. Times are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays and 5-9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Learn how to offer your lived experience to provide peer…
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NAMI NJ to present webinar on emotional wellness during COVID-19
NAMI NJ (National Alliance on Mental Illness) will hold a webinar series about emotional wellness during COVID-19 at noon on May 8 featuring Cara Maksimov, LCSW. Maksimov will discuss therapeutic tools from mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, neuroscience and positive psychology to help maintain emotional health in a challenging time. For more information, visit www.naminj.org.
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Learn about sexual assault support services for the LGBTQ+ community
Sexual Assault Support Services at Zufall Health, along with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset’s Babs Siperstein PROUD Center, and RWJBarnabas Health, will present a webinar on sexual violence within the LGBTQ+ community from 6-8 p.m. on May 13. Email [email protected] to RSVP. Zoom link will be provided upon RSVP. Sponsored by the Somerset County…
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Vote for top poems in NAMI NJ Mental Health Poetry Contest
The top 10 poems have been selected for the 2020 NAMI NJ Dara Axelrod Expressive Arts Mental Health Poetry Contest based on the theme of “battling our challenges with superpowers.” NAMI NJ (National Alliance on Mental Illness) members and friends can vote online for the top three poems through May 31. All poems entered into…
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HEALTH MATTERS 5/1: Struggling with Substance Abuse, Addiction During COVID-19 Crisis
By Nicole Orro, L.P.C., L.C.A.D.C. People who are struggling with substance abuse and addiction are especially vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19, both mentally and physically. Moreover, the virus may lead many more people to develop substance abuse problems as they turn to alcohol and drugs to cope with the crisis. Look no further than…
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SOLUTIONS 5/1: Renewable Energy Supply – A Tale of Two Rates
By Huck Fairman The Town of Princeton has admirably drawn up a number of steps to reduce the cost and the emissions, or pollution, stemming from power generation and usage, along with that from vehicles. These initiatives are joined together in the Princeton Climate Action Plan. Part of that plan was to provide residents with…
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LOOSE ENDS 5/1: The Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad
By Pam Hersh Giving up on things is not Mark Freda’s thing. I know these things about him, because I have worked with Mark on various town initiatives (emergency services, town/gown relations, Spirit of Princeton events) for the past 40 years. So when he, along with the Spirit of Princeton co-chair Kam Amirzafari, decided to…
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COVID-19 cases hold steady in Bordentown
BORDENTOWN – No new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by Bordentown City nor Bordentown Township on April 29. The total number of positive cases remains flat at 16, with two deaths, in Bordentown City. Bordentown Township has 55 positive cases, with three deaths total. Across Burlington County there are 2,543 positive cases…
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Read Digital Issues Online
Packet Media LLC is offering a new way for readers to access their news each week. Visit www.centraljersey.com, go to the “Papers” tab and scroll to the bottom to “Read Digital Issues Online.” Outside of the breaking news and updates we post each day on the website, you’ll be able to “flip through” each week’s…
