#ErieOpioidProject: One Story; Many Stories
During the seven-month-long Civic Leadership Academy, the cohort applied the lessons learned from the program to a group-action project to address the nationwide opioid epidemic and its impact in Erie County. The group created a multimedia awareness campaign to change the conversation about addiction from one of a demonizing stigma to one of encouragement and compassion. This presentation will feature videos the group produced and a discussion of the epidemic.
Lynn Armel, former Erie County Sustainability Coordinator / Mapu Boayue, UECDC/Quality of Life Learning Center / Gabrielle Catrabone, Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership / Raven Clark, Jefferson Educational Society / Aaron Coseo, WQLN NPR/PBS / Jamie Dolmovich, GECAC / Donald Hatheway, United Way of Erie County / Zachary Herron, Printing Concepts / Mandi Johnson, Corry Area School District / Keith Jones Pomeroy, Gannon University / Douglas Massey, Erie County Community College / Branden Montgomery, Community Access Media / Autumn Parker, Allegheny College / Katie Patterson, Penn State Behrend / Kyle Rodney, Erie Insurance / Colin Russ, Pricewaterhouse Coopers / Susmita Sarki, Quality of Life Learning Center / Erin Sekerak, Junior Achievement of Western PA / Scott Tarasovitch II, Erie Insurance / Tywonn Taylor, Career Dreams/Booker T Washington Center / Clark Tieman, Penn State Behrend / Jenny Tompkins, PennFuture / Hilda Torres, GECAC / Olivia Wickline, expERIEnce Children's Museum
