RRMC names Vermont Prevention Lead Organization grant recipients in Rutland and Addison counties | Vermont Business Magazine
Summary
The Region 2 service area includes Addison and Rutland Counties.The sub-grants will enhance and expand prevention efforts throughout the region, for all substances and populations, from July 2024 to June 2025.Sub-grant recipients are as follows: Come Alive Outside: Will be offering a free collaborative community event called Winterfest, which will engage and provide leadership opportunities for local teens. The MINT Makerspace: Will be offering creative and exploratory programming for middle school students through community collaborations and craft/makers classes. The Turning Point Center of Addison County will be providing peer recovery coaching, recovery support services for all ages and populations, while partnering with local law enforcement and EMS first responders.The MINT is looking forward to using the grant to engage with middle school youth during the after school hours, providing a creative and social space in their satellite location on Merchants Row. "We are gearing up to provide creative, responsive, entrepreneurial programming and we cant wait to show the community - and the students themselves - what they are capable of!Turning Point of Addison County will be using their funds to extend their mission and work on prevention over the next six months. "We are grateful and humbled by this vote of confidence in our work," said Danielle Wallace, Executive Director of the Turning Point Center of Addison County.