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PD1 Nets 3rd Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation Grant

  Planning District One Behavioral Health Services received new funding for 2009-10 from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation to provide tobacco prevention programs for local youth in Wise, Lee, and Scott counties and the City of Norton.
    Frontier Health’s Prevention staff will provide, “Intervening with Teen Tobacco Users,” curriculum and “Helping Teens Stop Using Tobacco,” for students who voluntarily want to quit using tobacco; “Toward No Tobacco Use,” is an evidence-based model that will be offered to 5th- and 6th-graders.
   The program will motivate students to reduce their tobacco use, make healthier choices, quit on their own, or join a voluntary tobacco cessation program. The classes are designed to move teen-age tobacco users from not wanting to quit to wanting to quit. For more information about the programs, call Amy Bledsoe, (276) 431-4370.

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7th Annual Kid Power a Success
  The 7th Annual Kid Power: Empowering Kids for Success is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 8, 2010. The 2009 event drew a crowd of 5,500 at the Appalachian Fairgrounds in Gray.
   See Wings helicopter land and talk with the crew. Sing your way to Kid Power Idol and have fun with the Johnson City Family Skate Center. See a Roller Derby Jam.
   Test your batting speed with the Johnson City Cardinals. Check out your skills in the Milk Mustache, Limbo, Hula Hoop, and Power Bubble contests. Make giant bubbles with Project BASIC or investigate fossils with the Gray Fossil Site and see Bay’s Mountain opossum.
   Experience a soccer clinic with Chuckey Doak High School. Meet the Kingsport Lifesaving Crew Heavy Rescue Bloodhound Search Team and see the Water Rescue Truck. Hitch a ride with Raceway Ministries on their golf carts. Get inside an 18-wheeler with Tennessee Trucking Association.
   Try to stay dry when you visit Pluggie the Fire Hydrant, provided by the Johnson City Fire Department, and Andy the Ambulance from the Sullivan County EMS. Get your face painted, or get temporary tattoos.
   Make butterfly craft with TRACES Foster Care, play games and win prizes. Visit with WCQR’s Danny the Lion. Get a scoliosis screening and body mass index with the Washington County Health Department. Hammer away at the Doak House Museum’s tin punch.
   Learn about a doctor’s office visit with the Teddy Bear Check-up at Niswonger Children’s Hospital. Take part in Kohl’s Kids on the Move. Meet Happy Bear and Kids on the Block. See Tri-City Talent.
   Play games and win prizes. Get your face painted. Do crafts, make silly putty and plant flowers. Each booth has a game or craft to complete.
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Flowers on the Lake

    SAFE House Domestic Violence Shelter is hosting its 2nd annual Flowers on the Lake at 5 p.m. , Friday, May 21, 2010, at Warriors Path State Park.

   Judge Mark Toohey is the guest speaker. Chamber music will be provided by Fiddlesticks and soloist Lindsey Newton.

   The ceremony will conclude as attendees launch a beautiful array of flowers on the lake in remembrance of Victims of Domestic Violence, including the 213 served by SAFE House during Fiscal 2009. The flowers will be provided by Rainbow's End Gift and Floral.

REMOTE AREA MEDICAL (RAM) is set for July 23-25, 2010. The 10th annual event is expected to draw even more individuals from the region in need of care.

  The 9th annual Remote Area Medical health outreach served 5,598 patients with 1,746 volunteers providing $1.7 million in care including medical exams, mammograms, eye exams, and dental exams, cleaning, fillings and extractions.

   The event at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia, is evidence of the need for affordable health care services in the region. Photo courtesy Kingsport Times News.
   Volunteer Registration Form

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Friends & Family Support Group
Working to help families and friends of people who have a substance addiction, Frontier Health is forming a support group in Wise County for advocacy, information, and community awareness. Friends & Family Support Group will offer the tools friends and families need to assist people with addiction move toward recovery duing a weekly support group Tuesdays at Wise County Behavioral Health Services. There is no cost to attend and no registration is needed. There is an ongoing 10-week curriculum but people may join at any time. For more information, call (276) 523-8300. Lee County Behavioral Health in Jonesville holds a similar group at 6 p.m. Tuesdays called In-Fuze. For more information about Lee County, call (276) 346-3590.

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Family Links Respite Offers Support Group

Family Links planned respite services, a program of Frontier Health, offers a Support Group for parents and caregivers of children with severe emotional disturbances or mental illness. The Support Group is not a parenting class. Family Links can provide child care for all appropriate children. The Support Group is free of charge. If you would like more information, call (423) 232-2719.

 

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