This exciting event will spotlight the outstanding work and words of students who participate in the Courage to Speak® Foundation’s curricula taught by their health teachers. The schools include Brookside Elementary School, Nathan Hale, Roton, West Rocks, Ponus Ridge Middle Schools and Side by Side Charter School. Norwalk’s Mayor, Harry Rilling, Chief of Operations, Dr….
The Courage to Speak® Foundation began shortly after I lost my son Ian to heroin and prescription drug overdose. In the years that followed, I came to understand first hand the behaviors that enabled and perpetuated the disease of addiction. I did the best I could as a parent, but the disease was bigger than…
By Julia Werth Kileen Doyle never spoke to her son about drugs while he was growing up. She wasn’t even aware that some of his classmates and friends in Norwalk were using. That changed abruptly when her son’s long-time friend, a boy who had been on his swimming team and in his martial arts classes,…