I AM A FORCE FOR CHANGE - PREVENTION MANUAL FOR ADVOCATES
I AM A FORCE FOR CHANGE is what we have dubbed our mission to reach our nation’s local mayors, police departments and school boards in an effort to help educate their residents about the immediate dangers of fentanyl poisoning.
I AM A FORCE FOR CHANGE is what we have dubbed our mission to reach our nation’s local mayors, police departments and school boards in an effort to help educate their residents about the immediate dangers of fentanyl poisoning.
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The Global<br />
Recovery<br />
Movement<br />
The Global<br />
Recovery<br />
Movement<br />
grmovement.org<br />
Tunnel<br />
Of<br />
Hope<br />
tunnelofhope.org<br />
Tunnel<br />
Of<br />
Hope<br />
McShin<br />
Recovery Resources<br />
Foundation<br />
mcshin.org<br />
Two Ways to Deploy Operation Dunkirk<br />
1. CALL/EMAIL your warm contacts in schools, churches, your Mayor and local<br />
legislators.<br />
For example, Wendy Thomas of Matthew's Voice Project sent an email and asked her<br />
principal to show a PowerPoint presentation to the student body.<br />
2. ASSEMBLE a group of people and develop a community coalition.<br />
When we started in 1989 in Morristown, NJ, we developed a coalition of stakeholders,<br />
which included all of our PTAs. The PTA members presented the prevention programs<br />
in the schools and continue to do so 30 years later! Each school has a drug and alcohol<br />
prevention rep. This helps to ensure your work has longevity. The PTAs create their<br />
own agenda that is age appropriate with activities including Red Day, puppet shows,<br />
guest speakers and parent awareness programs.<br />
Our coalition financed all of their efforts because New Jersey funds its grassroots<br />
efforts and has created coalitions in every town called Municipal Alliances. We<br />
received $70,000 per year for three decades to carry this out.<br />
(https://gcada.nj.gov/alliance/)<br />
When we started, there was already a Student Assistance Program in place. For the<br />
last 35 years, there have been Student Assistance Programs in every school district in<br />
New Jersey since the occurrence of a horrific crack/cocaine epidemic in the mid-<br />
1980s. Sadly, these drugs were literally pouring into our communities from Newark<br />
and NYC.
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