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Ohio’s Opioid Epidemic: Faith in Action

Ohio’s Opioid Epidemic: Faith in Action

Ohio’s opioid epidemic will take each of us, bringing our skills and solutions. The faith-based community has a unique role in helping those who struggle with addiction. Here are some examples of leadership and faith in action from around Ohio that are making a big difference.


Sexual Assault Kit Testing Initiative

Sexual Assault Kit Testing Initiative

The Ohio Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Kit Testing Initiative is finished after Bureau of Criminal Investigation scientists tested 13,931 once-forgotten rape kits from around the state dating from 1971 to 2014. The evidence in each rape kit represents a person. And many of those people – the survivors – have waited years for justice.


Ideas for Our Future Conference: Thank You Ohio First Responders

Ideas for Our Future Conference: Thank You Ohio First Responders

April 9 – 16, 2018 is Ohio First Responder Week of Appreciation, as sponsored by The Ohio Attorney General’s Office, the Governor’s Cabinet Opiate Action Team, and the Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities. Thank you to those of you on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic every day.


Ideas for Our Future Conference: Brittany's Story

Ideas for Our Future Conference: Brittany's Story

At 12, she started her addiction path and at 19, she found heroin. In March of 2018, Brittany celebrated 13 months of sobriety. She’s now on a mission to get her kids back.


Ideas for Our Future Conference: Ohio START

Ideas for Our Future Conference: Ohio START

Far too often, the opioid epidemic tears families apart, but a new pilot program through the Ohio Attorney General’s Office is all about keeping families together. It’s called Ohio START (Sobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma) and early results are promising.


Ideas for Our Future Conference: Dan Palmer

Ideas for Our Future Conference: Dan Palmer

One person can make a difference in the opioid epidemic. Dan Palmer is just one example of that. He took an idea to help children – the victims in this opioid crisis -- into action. Down in Southern Ohio, it’s making a real difference for kids in Scioto County.


Ideas for Our Future Conference: Help and Hope in Ohio

Ideas for Our Future Conference: Help and Hope in Ohio

While the opioid epidemic in Ohio has been devastating, it has brought people together to be creative, passionate, and powerful in the fight against it. There is real help and real hope happening every single day, particularly for kids, who are innocent victims in this drug crisis. They are traumatized when they don’t have food or running water because their parents’ addiction has robbed them of their basic needs. And they are traumatized when they see their parents using drugs, overdosing, and dying.

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