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,…
Category: Wellness
POSTIVE VIBES: Women Empowered Workshop July 8 & 9
OIOpublisher By Jan Boal, RN I facilitate women’s workshops. The focus is on empowerment by way of recognizing fear, whether real or perceived. Empowering women is not meant as a way to…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY WELLNESS: 2023 Explore Your Outdoors Adventure Awaits, Win Prizes!!
by Tillamook County Wellness This is the summer of exploring our own backyards, and how lucky are we to live in a place with an overabundance of outdoor recreation opportunities? Looking for…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS SAFE SPACE FOR ALL
June is Pride month. Pride month is a celebration of the freedom to be who you are. Pride raises awareness of the issues facing the LGBTQIA2S+ community. John Hopkins Medicine reports that…
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 WELLNESS: Small Steps to Build Multidimensional Mental Health
By Amanda Ferrat, Founder of Value Yourself Counseling LLC May is Mental Health Awareness month yet as a mental health professional, I focus on mental health year-round. I also approach mental health…
POSTIVE VIBES: MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS – PTSD and Veterans
By Jan Boal Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a diagnosis given to someone who has experienced a traumatic event or a series of events. This results in recurring constant, involuntary, intensive…
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…