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Chris Herren at Cranston High School East Jan 8th
Former Celtics player Chris Herren is coming to Cranston on January 8th at Cranston High School at 6pm. Herren will speak at the Auditorium and the event is free, with the community encouraged to attend. Parking is easily accessible.
“It’s Your Story, It’s Your Tomorrow” is a program of the Cranston Police Department and the Cranston Substance Abuse Task Force.
Chris Herren inspires people to start the conversation on wellness and educate themselves on the disease of addiction. It is his hope that strength will be found in the struggle and communities will come together to address the issue of substance use disorder, advocate for effective treatment and embrace the power of recovery.
The State Opioid Response Grant through RI Dept. of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities & Hospitals and SPC Regional Prevention Coalition was given to the Cranston Police Department who is partnering with the Cranston Substance Abuse Task force a program of CCAP. Together they are working on educating and supporting the City of Cranston about the opioid crisis.
The Cranston Substance Abuse Task Force is a program of Comprehensive Community Action, Inc. (CCAP). The mission of the Cranston Substance Abuse Task Force is to promote healthy attitudes and behaviors for youth and families through community action with the focus on substance use and misuse reduction and prevention.
About Christ Herren and the Herren Project
Herren Project was founded in 2011 by former professional basketball player, Chris Herren, with the goal of helping others navigate the road to recovery from the disease of addiction. Herren Project has since helped thousands of individuals and their families from anywhere within the United States with treatment navigation and family support services as well as brought awareness to substance use prevention.
Within hours of an overdose from heroin in June of 2008, Chris Herren was released from a Fall River Hospital. Only partially through detoxification from the drugs and alcohol in his body, with no healthcare coverage and little money to his name, he was back out on the street overwhelmed by a sense of shame, with few options and no place to turn. Friends stepped in and with modest financial support and a strong hand helped Chris through an extended treatment program and a return to sober living. Drug-free and alcohol-free since August 1, 2008 Chris has refocused his life to put his sobriety and family above all else.
Chris Herren’s story and his redemptive rise from the depths of addiction were captured through the publication of the book, Basketball Junkie and the release of the ESPN Films documentary, Unguarded. As a result, Chris Herren has received thousands of desperate “calls for help” from others facing addiction. Herren Project was formed to answer those calls, increase education and public awareness on substance use disorder and the disease of addiction with the goal of helping individuals through every stage of recovery.
“There
is no greater gift than sharing recovery with others. Watching the trust build
and healing start. Wellness starts within each of us. It is a choice to live,
make positive decisions and be better.”
– Chris Herren
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