JM4C's Together 4 Change

JM4C Director Jane Golberg sits down with Jenny Hallett, a JM4C Board Member and a strong advocate for alcohol policy.  Jenny shares her mission in life to help people avoid the disease of alcohol addiction after she lost her daughter Brittany to the disease on November 5, 2014.  The tenth episode in a series of twelve.

Resources shared:

SmallTalksWI.org- How Wisconsin prevents underage drinking

VIDEO: Understanding Why Addiction is a real brain disease…..Neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Dewey VIDEO (must start about 6:30 mark in the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnEMxVdEFjw

BOOK about Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris VIDEO (29 minutes in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqIhQlzntmg

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: NIAAA.NIH.gov

ADVOCACY Organizations:

Partnership To End Addiction (Helping Family Members): DrugFree.Org

Shatterproof.Org

Mobilize Recovery / Recovery Advocacy Project Wisconsin

HOTLINES:

Rock County Crisis Intervention 24/7 Hotline: 608-757-5025

Wisconsin Addiction Recovery Hotline: 211

JM4C Project Coordinator Xandi Finn sits down with Alan Luckett, Director of JATV.  Alan will share more information on JATV and discuss their role in sharing JM4C's messages out to the community.  The ninth episode in a series of twelve.

Jane Golberg, Director of JM4C sits down with Billy Bob Grahn, founder of the Red Road House, a sober living facility for individuals who suffer from chronic substance use disorder in Janesville. The Red Road House provides programming, support, and guidance to those individuals to help them continue down the road of recovery. Billy Bob also shares that his past experience motivated him to get involved with coalition work to help change the trajectory of youth who struggle with similar experiences. The eighth episode in a series of twelve.

JM4C Project Coordinator Xandi Finn sits down with Father Earl from the Janesville Community Center to discuss his role in creating strong neighborhoods.  

Jane Golberg, Director of JM4C sits down with Carrie Kulinski, Families in Transition Coordinator with the School District of Janesville to share some history of the coalition and the partnership between the schools and JM4C.  The sixth episode in a series of twelve.

Jane Golberg, Director of JM4C sits down with Caitlin Turkowski, Registered Nurse with the Rock County Public Health Department to discuss how coalitions can engage members from the healthcare sector to be more engaged with coalition work.  The fifth episode in a series of twelve.  

JM4C Project Coordinator Xandi Finn sits down with a youth representative to discuss how she lives above the influence and what parents can do to support their kids.  The fourth episode in a series of twelve.

Sgt. Krahn with the Rock County Sheriff's Office discusses underage alcohol compliance checks and how to stay safe during the holiday season.  The third episode in a series of twelve.  

Please listen as JM4C Director Jane Golberg sits down with Kaitlyn Hathorn from the Boys & Girls Club- Janesville to discuss ways the coalition partners with the youth-serving sector.  The second episode in a series of twelve.  

JM4C Director Jane Golberg sits down with Becky Huber from Rock County Human Services to discuss some of the partnership activities they have going on in the month of October.  The first episode in a series of twelve where JM4C highlights some of their partners throughout the community.