NCPSG News

Thanks John and Tiffany

John and Tiffany, for your help with Reefer Sanity (March 5th at Saxe Auditorium).  You represent your respective organizations, Liberation Programs and Aware Recovery Care, extremely well.
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Thank you Silver Hill

Thank you Peter Clark and Silver Hill, for helping to sponsor our Reefer Sanity Event.
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Team Orange Rocks

Thank you Lighthouse Sober Living, Caron Treatment Centers, Aware Recovery Care, Kids in Crisis, Karl Chevrolet, NCVAC, and Liberation Programs for all your efforts bringing sanity to our marijuana educational event on March 5th.  From the left: Mark O’Connor, Paul Reinhardt, Marty Gaudrault, Allan Griffin, Emma Kate Freatman, Leo Karl, Alison Bedula, and John Hamilton.
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A Year of Accomplishments with help from Partners

I just wanted to leave a short note to recognize all those community partners that helped make 2018 a banner year for the New Canaan Parent Support Group.  I’m thankful for: The organizations who provided speakers for our Pathway Series, which took place at the New Canaan YMCA: Adventure Recovery, Aware Recovery Care, Dr. Frank Bartolomeo, Center for Motivation &
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Feedback from Ruth Potee visit was uniformly positive

Feedback from parents in attendance: Dr. Ruth did an outstanding job last evening, describing the risks to the Adolescent Brain. And somehow she found time to discuss intervention, treatment and recovery as well! Ruth is a true hero to be admired by all.  For those who missed Ruth, her slide deck is here.  We hope to follow up with a
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Letter to the Editor: Thank You

We recently published a Letter to the Editor, thanking all of our community allies and supporters for helping make our 2nd Annual Overdose Awareness Vigil successful.  See below and here for the letter. Dear Editor: On behalf of the New Canaan Parent Support Group and New Canaan Community Foundation, I thank the people of our town for uniting together during
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Article about courageous woman just published…

I was thoroughly impressed by the article entitled “Savoring triumph as the heart wrenches” written by Grace Duffield in yesterday’s July 26 edition of the New Canaan Advertiser. It was courageous indeed for Barbara Reiniger to agree to an interview to discuss her own personal journey and her daughter’s tragic death by suicide. Barbara’s decision to tell her story reminds
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