Operation Survival will be hosting a drug awareness and prevention evening in the Oholei Torah Ballroom on Sunday evening Jan 8th at 7:45pm.
Men and women in the community are invited for this special event, called “We Need to Talk About Prevention,” to highlight the need for prevention strategies and an increased awareness and understanding of the drug problem in Crown Heights.
Among the featured speakers are Dr. Brad Reedy, a nationally renowned expert on parenting teens, Lewis J. Abrams, an addictions counselor in the Jewish community, specializing in unique approaches to the drug problem within the Jewish community, and Dr. Eli Rosen, a community doctor and longtime Hatzalah volunteer. A representative of the New York Police Department will clarify the process of reporting drug dealers. There will also be a Q and A session, moderated by Rabbi Shea Hecht, Chairman of the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education.
Several organization including Amudim, MASK, Jewish Board of Family Services and Interborough will have tables at this event, with informational brochures and staff on hand to answer questions about their services.
The event is endorsed by:
Amudim, Chesed Shel Emes, Crown Heights Yeshivos, Hatzalah of Crown Heights, MASK, Misaskim, N.C.F.J.E.
The event is being sponsored in the memory of Kasriel Benjamin.
It’s about time we had an event like this in our community. I really hope people of all ages will show up to this because we need to know what to do about this. If the hall is not packed tomorrow night it will show that too many people in our community are living in a world of denial and that puts lives risk. My friends, this is a matter of pikuach nefesh mamosh!
PLEASE stream and make the video recording available online after the event!!!
Too important to have only a local attend-able event.
But really the people that should be speaking is the one that are in recovery and the abuse they suffer from the community when they do for elk
Maybe stream live, too