Tag: Partnership for a Drug Free New Jersey
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Monmouth County News Briefs, Dec. 28
Brookdale Community College, ARC of Monmouth County and Voyagers’ Community School have announced a free, pre-vocational program that offers adult students, ages 18 to 24, who have intellectual disabilities a classroom learning experience in life, consumer and employment skills, self-advocacy, healthy habits, financial literacy and the innovative use of technology. This grant award was funded…
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Monmouth County News Briefs, Dec. 14
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) is inviting New Jersey high school students to create original music with substance use prevention messages as part of the 2023 Your Song! Your Voice! Shout Down Drugs New Jersey music competition. Back for its 19th year, the Your Song! Your Voice! music competition allows teenagers to…
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Fentanyl, seniors and pills among topics planned in 2023 learning series
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) has wrapped up a successful 2022 Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series and will renew its partnership with the Office of the New Jersey Coordinator of Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies (NJ CARES) to host the webinar series in 2023 along with the Opioid Education Foundation…
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Monmouth County News Briefs, Dec. 7
For forty-six years, 180 Turning Lives Around, a private nonprofit organization in Monmouth County, has provided support and advocacy for victims of sexual violence in the aftermath of a highly emotional and traumatic experience with the assistance of its Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) volunteers. 180’s trained confidential victim advocates, in collaboration with countywide law…
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Monmouth County News Briefs, Nov. 23
The award-winning Monmouth Civic Chorus will present Joy to the World: Your Favorites from Handel’s Messiah and the RJB Holiday Suite on Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. at Meridian Health Theatre, Count Basie Center for the Arts, 99 Monmouth St., Red Bank. The show includes an annual performance of Artistic Director Dr. Ryan James Brandau’s…
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Monmouth County News Briefs, Oct. 26
Monmouth County Clerk Christine Giordano Hanlon has created a COVID-19 Pandemic Archive in an effort to preserve important government records for historical purposes. Municipal and county government officials in Monmouth County are being asked to submit documents pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic to be preserved in the county clerk’s archives, according to a press release.…
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Activity books will help North Brunswick third graders learn about dangers of substance abuse
PHOTO COURTESY OF PETE CLARK The North Brunswick Municipal Alliance was awarded a grant by the Partnership For a Drug-Free New Jersey and PSE&G. The grant is a collection of 200 activity books, “Life Choices,” to educate third graders about the dangers of substance use and misuse, and provide an opportunity for teachers, students and…
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Old Bridge partners with PDFNJ, local businesses in ‘It is time to consider opioid alternatives’ campaign
OLD BRIDGE – It is time to consider opioid alternatives. That is the message Old Bridge officials are hoping to get across to as many people as possible. And what better way than the message on a digital billboard along the busy Route 9 corridor. The billboard’s message states: “Americans Are Now More Likely…
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Panelists will offer guidance on how parents can talk to children about drug use
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey will present “15-Minute Child Break” at 7 p.m. March 25, co-hosted by the Cranbury Municipal Alliance, The Cranbury School and the Cranbury Police Department. Parents who talk to their children about their activities an average of 15 minutes per day have children who are 67% less likely to…