ACTIVE PARENTING – presented by Tillamook Family Counseling Center and Northwest Parenting: Session 1: October 4th 5:45PM-8:00PM(Zoom) Session 2: October 11th 5:45PM-8:00PM(Zoom) Session 3: October 18th 5:45PM-8:00PM(Zoom) Active Parenting is a comprehensive…
Category: Prevention Outreach
Oregon awards $640,000 to local coalitions, providers for suicide prevention efforts; Tillamook Suicide Prevention Coalition Receives Funding
Local efforts build, expand new coalitions, training efforts to recognize National Suicide Prevention Month Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or…
Suicide Prevention Awareness Month: Local Suicide Prevention Training Available – Sept. 11th; Over 300 people Trained in Tillamook County
Each year, lives are lost due to suicide, and this cause of death is preventable. One way to prevent suicide is to increase protective factors, such as: a connection with others, access…
Overdose Awareness Day Thursday, August 31st at Blue Heron French Cheese Company – Free Food, Music, and More
Tillamook’s Second Annual Overdose Awareness Day will be held at the Blue Heron in Tillamook, Oregon on Thursday August 31st from 4pm-7pm. This annual campaign aims to end overdose, remember without stigma…
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION Let’s Talk About Safety: WTF – What the Fentanyl? Nachos & Narcan – Thursday July 27th at TBCC
Join us Thursday July 27th at 5:30 pm at Tillamook Bay Community College for “NACHOS & NARCAN” – the quarterly “Community Conversation – Let’s Talk About Safety” – focusing on fentanyl awareness,…
WORDS OF WISDOM: Bombarded and Overwhelmed
by Neal Lemery This week, I attended a community forum on our community’s drug and mental health crisis, presented by the Tillamook County Community Health Center (the county health department). Concerned citizens,…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: Check the sources – Fentanyl Aware
Fentanyl is very cheap and extremely addictive. Fake prescription pills have flooded the market since about 2014. Fentanyl is often mixed into fake pills. It can also be mixed with or…
POSTIVE VIBES: Mental Health – What is it and What do we do about it?
By Jan Boal, RN May is Mental Health Month. So, what exactly is mental health and what do we do about it? By definition: “Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: Be Fentanyl Aware
Did you know that Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is tasteless, odorless, and extremely potent? To put it into perspective, a dose of fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than…
National Fentanyl Awareness Day – Launch of Northwest Oregon Fentanyl Aware Campaign
From Tillamook County Community Health Centers: Today, May 9th, is National Fentanyl Awareness Day and the official launch of the Northwest Oregon Fentanyl Aware Campaign. Tillamook, Columbia, and Clatsop County have come…
