Youth Mental Health And Wellness Fest What a great day! Thanks to all the community who attended and participated! This fun day focused on promoting youth mental health and wellness while decreasing the stigma around mental health.
Thank you to all who volunteered. So happy to see people turn out to dispose of unwanted/expired medications.
Rosalinda Chavez, left, and Shelby McKinstry with I-KAN Iroquois-Kankakee Regional Office of Education, Pledge for Life Partnership’s Youth Advisory Council (YAC), drop off belts and pajama bottom donations to Fortitude Community Outreach in Kankakee. The effort was part of the YAC’s annual winter donation drive for the shelter. The Youth Advisory Council increases youth representation …
Pictured here (left to right) are Pledge for Life Director of Life Education Center Programs, Brenda Wetzel, Drug-free Communities Grant Project Coordinator, Jim Schreiner, Kankakee County Board member, Carol Webber, Pledge for Life Board President, Sarah Winkel, Kankakee County Board member, Craig Long, and Administrative Assistant, Megan Froehner. The amount of prescription drugs has increased …
Congratulations to Isabelle Trudeau from Liberty School, for her winning design in the billboard contest held annually by the Life Education Center to encourage others to choose “Wise Highs…Choices You Can Live With” As part of Red Ribbon Week, the billboard will be displayed in October on the corner of North Hobbie Avenue and East …