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…
Category: Wellness
WORDS OF WISDOM: Bombarded and Overwhelmed
OIOpublisher 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…
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…
A Mother’s Day Gift: Johnny’s Apple Tree blooms again ~ May 13, 2023
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Pioneer shares Johanna’s photos all the time on our Facebook page, and we featured her photo on the cover of this year’s Giving Guide. I had been contemplating a…
Ambition, Expansion, and the Power of Early Learning: A Conversation with Tillamook Early Learning Center
It’s not every day that you come across someone as ambitious as Jamie Rhodes, the Director of the Tillamook Early Learning Center. Balancing life as a parent of two young children, managing…
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…