May is National Foster Care Month, a time to recognize the nearly 413,000 youth under 18 who are in foster care in America and who need a permanent, loving family. More events, activities and resources are available at here.
May 31st 2021 is World Health Organization’s No Tobacco Day. If you are a tobacco user, we would like to encourage you to take some time to visit the Commit to Quit page and read 100 reasons to quit, browse the quitting toolkit, and take the pledge here.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Awareness week hosted by the National Federation of Families. There is a variety of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week activities, worksheets and videos for children and youth of all ages (including teenagers) available at here.
National Youth Violence Prevention Week is scheduled for April 12-16, 2021. Founded in 2001, National Youth Violence Prevention Week (NYVPW) is a time for youth to lead communities on effective strategies to prevent youth violence. The campaign is a week-long event with each day of the week corresponding to a specific challenge for communities. Join … Read more
National Public Health Week is April 5-11 2021. The theme for 2021 is Building Bridges to Better Health. Public health is also a big part of RCORP-ETC’s OUD prevention and intervention efforts. Making communities safe and healthy is public health’s top priority. COVID-19 has made that even more important. Even though we won’t gather in … Read more
The National Institute on Minority Health and The Office on Minority Health is focusing on the disproportionate impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on racial and ethnic minority and American Indian and Alaska Native communities and underscore the need for these vulnerable communities to get vaccinated as more vaccines become available. This year’s National Minority … Read more
April is National Minority Health Month. This month we would like to highlight health disparities faced by minorities in the United States by sharing some disheartening statistics released by the CDC and SAMHSA. African-Americans make up only 17% of the population, but comprise 32% of COVID-19 related deaths. Although overall infant mortality rates have fallen over … Read more
Please join the Harm Reduction Week of Action March 21-26 2021. The goals of the week of action are to expand people’s understanding of harm reduction and drug policy reform, build connections across the movement, further shift the public narrative about the overdose crisis and the drug war and move people to action in order … Read more
March 10th is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. One in 9 women with HIV is unaware she has it. This March 10th the CDC and Office on Women’s Health encourages you to use the hashtag #NWGHAA on social media to share the link to free, confidential HIV testing sites at gettested.cdc.gov.
Monday, March 22 – Sunday, March 28, 2021 is the National Institute of Health’s Drug and Alcohol Facts Week. Challenge your knowledge about drug and alcohol use by taking the 13 question National Drug and Alcohol Quiz at here.
