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Vision Ministries tells Lawrence County commissioners education is key to opioid prevention
Summary
Vision Ministries leaders updated the commissioners on a school-based opioid-prevention curriculum, a scholarship and billboard poster contest; they said opioid settlement dollars fund local programs and thanked the county advisory board for support.
Vision Ministries leaders told the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners on April 28 that education is central to preventing youth opioid use and described an expanding program delivered in county schools.
During the public-comment period, Vision Ministries President Randy Crown and Vice President Von Cree described "Operation Prevention," a curriculum adapted from a federal program and tailored for local schools that the group said is now running at Mohawk and being offered to other districts. They said the curriculum includes grade-specific lessons…
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