All are invited to an education session on Adolescent Brain Development on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Buckham Memorial Library in Faribault. The training will be led by Dr. Ken Winters from the University of Minnesota. For more information, click HERE.
There is no cost to attend, but advance registration [...]
Town Hall Meeting and Dinner
Main Street Moravian Church
Sunday, November 8, 2009, 3:00 pm
The Main Street Moravian Church will host a Town Hall Meeting and Dinner on Sunday, November 8, 2009, at 3 pm. The entire event is FREE. The meeting will be focused on personal stories of addition and recovery in Northfield.
A variety of speakers [...]
Parents and community members are invited to attend an important community presentation…
Pure Performance
The impact of alcohol or drug use on athletic performance
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Northfield High School Auditorium
1400 Division Street South
The presentation is led by John Underwood, President of the American Athletic Institute. A formed NCAA All-American, John has coached or advised more than [...]
The Provider Team of the Rice County Chemical Health Coalition sponsors a monthly opportunity for parents dealing with a son or daughter’s substance abuse to meet and talk with other parents. The group offers both education and support. It meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Thus, the next meeting will [...]
Charles Reznikoff, M.D. is the May recipient of the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) Making a Difference award. The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth.
Dr. Reznikoff is an Addiction Medicine Specialist at Northfield Hospital. He began seeing patients with opiate addiction in Northfield last [...]
We are pleased to announce that there are two exciting full-time position openings working with Northfield youth for the 2009-10 school year. These AmeriCorps Promise Fellow positions are made possible through a collaboration with the Minnesota Alliance With Youth.
One of the positions works with youth at the Northfield High School and one works with young [...]
The PRIMEtime after school collaborative will sponsor a training on Monday, April 20, 2009, titled, “Ways to Deal with Difficult Youth Behavior.” The training is being led by Nancy Busse, EBD Coordinator for the Faribault Public Schools. The intended audience includes after school program staff and community volunteers who work with youth.
The training will be [...]
The Main Street Moravian Church is hosting a very important community discussion this Sunday, April 19, 2009. The entire event is FREE.
A Town Hall meeting on the topic of legal issues associated with heroin and opiate use in Northfield will begin at 3:00 p.m. The Town Hall meeting will host a panel of seven experts [...]
Dr. Charles Reznikoff provided an in-service to nearly 20 staff at ARTech Charter School on Monday. Last month, Dr. Reznikoff led a similar in-service with over 125 staff from the Northfield Middle School, Northfield High School, and Northfield Area Learning Center.
The in-services focused on issues of addiction, signs and symptoms of chemical use issues, and [...]
Below is information on a very important new group being organized by local community members.
FROGS: A support group for Friends and Family to deal Respectfully with the Reality of Opiate use and Overdose, to Gather and Grieve and give Support and Sympathy. FROGS will be meeting on Mondays at the Main Street Moravian Church (713 [...]
