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Rushford News
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 |
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Rushford recieved $600 from the Naugatuck Savings Bank Foundation as part of its Community Awards Program. |
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Monday, February 15, 2010 |
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MIDDLETOWN -- Research has shown that one in four students will be bullied during their schools years. For students at Keigin and Woodrow Wilson middle schools in Middletown, the “No Bully Zone” program is working to reduce that statistic.
In September 2009, the Middlesex County Community Foundation (MCCF) Council of Business Partners partnered with Rushford, one of the state’s leading providers of positive youth development and prevention services, to offer the program that teaches students how to identify, address and report incidents of bullying. |
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010 |
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Rushford received a grant from Olga Sipolin Children's Fund for our Safe Habors Program. |
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON — His son had been dead from an overdose only three months when A. Thomas McLellan, among the nation’s leading researchers on addiction, got a call from the office of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Would he accept the nomination to be the government’s No. 2 drug-control official? |
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Monday, December 07, 2009 |
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The rigors of medical training sharpen a doctor’s ability to diagnose and treat a wide variety of
human afflictions. However, drug abuse and addiction are often insufficiently covered in
medical school curricula, despite the fact that drug use affects a wide range of health conditions
and drug abuse and addiction are themselves major public health issues.
To improve drug abuse and addiction training of future physicians, the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today unveiled a series of new
teaching tools, through its Centers of Excellence for Physician Information Program (NIDA
CoEs), at the Association of American Medical Colleges 2009 Annual Meeting’s ``Innovations
in Medical Education’’ Exhibit in Boston. |
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
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Rushford Clinical Director of Adult Mental Health Services weighs in on Record-Journal article on suicide. |
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Friday, May 29, 2009 |
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Rushford recently launched a radio campaign aimed at preventing underage drinking. The public service announcement, which is airing on 96.5 WTIC/FM, features radio personality Damon Scott. The campaign is being funded by grant funding Rushford received from the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to establish underage drinking task forces in several communities to address the problem of underage drinking. prevention. Research has shown that underage drinking costs the State of Connecticut more than $600 million each year. |
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
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Rushford's prevention department is using billboards to help raise awareness of the consequences of underage drinking. The billboards are located on West Main Street in Meriden and on Route 9 in Middletown.
The billboards are paid for by two grants (Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIG) the organization received from the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to help prevent underage drinking in Middletown and Meriden.
Sheryl Sprague, Rushford prevention manager, and her staff are collaborating with local law enforcement, school officials, youth, community leaders, universities and businesses in an effort to create an awareness and understanding of underage drinking and its consequences as well as to encourage individuals, families, and the community to address this issue. These efforts include the billboard messages along with other advertisements that promote the importance of preventing underage drinking.
For more information on this initiative, please contact prevention manager, Sheryl Sprague at 203-630-5357.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
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The 21st annual Rushford Golf Classic to benefit child and adolescent prevention and treatment programs will be held June 9, 2009, at Indian Hill Country Club in Newington, CT. Registration begins at 10 a.m. with a shotgun start at noon. To register to play or for information on sponsorship opportunities, please contact Melissa Tashjian at 860-852-1011. |
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Friday, November 14, 2008 |
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Students at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Middletown who participate in Rushford's SMART Leaders program were featured on NBC channel 30 News on Nov.13. |
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