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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 2021 • ISSUE 1 • VOLUME 1
HEALTH CONNECT
AMERICA 2020 YEAR IN REVIEW
2020 posed new challenges and obstacles for us all.
Health Connect America’s mission is
dedicated to providing quality and
Traditional meetings and trainings all had to have a
affordable services to individuals and facelift. It was time to get creative and figure out how
their family members. Doing so allows to do prevention outside of the box. We
them the space to achieve the highest accomplished this by doing drive thru events, zoom
level of potential, while residing in a meetings and even programming through zoom.
safe, positive living environment. We We stepped outside normal prevention and partnered
accomplish this by living out our with local businesses and let them help us spread the
mission and values in all that we do. prevention message. We did a huge social media
Our vision is to deliver campaign for Red Ribbon Week that included
comprehensive clinical outcomes businesses. Most of the downtown businesses
that lead the behavioral health participated with signage in their windows and
community, leveraging our unique stickers or coffee sleeves on the product they sale.
service lines to work collaboratively
This allowed us to reach a different demographic
in maximizing the care experience
than normal. We considered this a
for our clients.
huge success and wonderful
Our vision is to have well respected,
new partnerships have been
highly engaged and accountable
team members who feel supported
formed. 2020 was the year for
and appreciated by Health Connect new relationships that we are
America, whose focus is driving the excited to continue into 2021.
care process and providing the best (Continued page 3)
for our clients.
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January is Human
Trafficking
Awareness Month
Health Connect America’s values incorporate evidence-
based practices in accordance with ethical guidelines Human trafficking is a form of
provided by both state and national associations. We modern-day slavery. This crime
endeavor to be accountable to our client at all levels. occurs when a trafficker uses force,
fraud or coercion to control
another person for the purpose of
Individuality: We are committed to providing personalized
engaging in commercial sex acts or
services to our clients based on their needs identified through soliciting labor or services against
comprehensive assessments. his/her will. Force, fraud, or
Safety: Our focus will always be based on the physical and coercion need not be present if the
emotional safety of the client and his or her well-being. individual engaging in commercial
Community: We know that clients are best served in their sex is under 18 years of age.
natural environments.
Inclusive: We will always strive to honor the dignity and National
personal values of the clients, their families, and our staff, Human
regardless of race, ethnic group, religion, gender, creed,
Trafficking
sexual orientation, nationality or financial status.
Innovation: Our services will continually be monitored and
Hotline
reviewed resulting in innovative services being delivered. 1-888-373-7888
Progress: We will always be open to learning new methods
and means to more effectively serve the clients. Text 233733
Health Connect America Services
2020 Coalition Intensive Outpatient Services for Substance use
and Mental Health (IOP-SA/MH) for both
Highlights adolescents and adults dealing with substance use
and co-occurring disorders. Our program
Presented at Franklin County Ladies
incorporates the Living in Balance and Seeking
Society
Safety curriculum addressing the biopsychosocial
Presented at Noon Rotary Meeting
model of addiction
Pastor's Summit
Individual and Family Therapy to assist clients with
Life Maze at FCHS
mental health issues affecting functionality in
Presented Hidden in Plain Sight at all
everyday life that do not require more intensive
Middle & High Schools
services such as CCFT or IOP. These services are
Monthly RBS Trainings
often a step to help maintain child and family
Back to School Bash
functioning after more intensive services or allow for
Hosted International Overdose
further assessment and discussion to determine if
Awareness Day
higher levels of care are required.
Positive Action at the Rain Teen
Medication/Clinic services provide pharmaceutical
Center
interventions through our practitioners to address
Crisis Intervention Training
mental health disorders that require medical
Community Health Fair
assistance. Services are provided via telehealth and
Fletcher Cleaves presentation at HHS
a 24-hour contact line is available when needed
& FCHS
outside of the medication appointment.
Hosted our 1st Thrive Youth
Tennessee Healthlink much like case management
Conference
allows our staff and agency to continue to meet client
Partnered with Franklin County
needs after intensive services by linking them to
Library
other resources within our communities, coordinating
Harvest Fun Fest at The Rain Teen
with other providers, and empowering our families to
Center
utilize preventive measure to gain better health
Shopped for Christmas Angels
outcomes.
We are also very excited about the new
relationship with the University of the
South. We have 3 college students that
are doing their service internships with
us this year. They are working on binge
drinking campaigns for the college
campus. We hope
to see these
saturate the
campus in 2021.
Here are a few of
the graphics you
may see around
Positive Action town!
We have a weekly teaching session at The
Rain Teen Center. We have 47 students
enrolled in our programming at this time.
This year has been a little more challenging
than the past however we rose to the
challenge. We started attendance
STREAKS. This resonates with the teens,
they didn't want to miss when the doors were
open and mess up their streaks. We gave
incentives for being in attendance for 4,
8,10,12,16,and 20 weeks. We actually have 3
teenagers that haven't missed since June!
We feel like this is a huge accomplishment.
We are ready to see what 2021 holds for this
program!
Thanksgiving Dinner
The year of 2020 for Project Lifeline in Region 5 South was
challenging having to navigate around the Virus of Covid-
19. Though it was challenging I still consider 2020 a
success because we were still able to provide recovery
support for those families and individuals seeking recovery
services. We were able to still build relationships with our
community partners and communities as a whole. We were
still able to reduce the stigma related to the disease of
addiction. In Perry County we started a new Prevention
Coalition, we had two Recovery Roundtables in the Region
networking to better serve those communities. Was able to
visit a number of treatment centers to make it more
accessible for one to get treatment services and was able to
still refer close to two hundred individuals into treatment in
2020. We were able to still have several trainings....QPR
and Narcan Trainings to name a few...... and I was trained
to be able to facilitate the QPR Training myself the past yr.
We had to cancel a few events because of social distancing
but we are looking forward to those canceled events this yr.
Though 2020 was challenging......it was still successful......
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SAVE A LIFE
2020 Highlights
Retrained 80% of our first responder
partnership agencies.
Scan to register Started a new virtual training option.
for Virtual This has allowed us to reach
Training individuals in 10 different states and 6
different countries.
Created new partnerships with
businesses in our communities.
Started a new partnership with the
CARA First Responder Grant with our
training.
Increased our community outreach
efforts over 50% from the previous year.
Continuing a push to partner with
Recovery Courts.
Proclamation Started a new program in the FC Jail
where we are training inmates and
Signing offering resources and hope to push
this out to other counties soon.
Retrained and got MOA's in place for
Walk a long Region 5 South: all staff of our funded coalitions.
Started a project and partnership with
Training 1,142 people trained Spero Health and BHG Clinic to train
all staff and clients and put measures
in Naloxone in place to offer treatment and
recovery resources.
Helped start a movement with the
2,376 units of Booker D Foundation in Hickman
County that will hopefully see them
Naloxone transition into a funded coalition.
Partnered with an organization in
Distributed Australia to help them with their harm
and stigma reduction training.
During the last round of stimulus checks
that were sent out we saw an increase in
OD numbers. We expect the same during
this round so we are currently working to
notify all community members of this and
are encouraging individuals to carry
Naloxone. We are working with first
responder agencies and our partners with
the CARA grant to get agencies up to
date and make sure they have Naloxone
during this time also. We are proactively
trying to get a lot of community outreach
done during this time so if anyone has a
space we can use to come set up our
table for a couple hours a day please
reach out to Dustin at 931-308-3535 or
Matt at 931-308-5463.
2020 HIGHLIGHTS
Completed all National DEC
Training
Isaiah 117 House (Sherwin
Williams paint, Hall Furniture,
Pete Mollica for Framing Elite
for Roofing)
CAC frozen prepared meals for
kiddos and family
Church Initiative to increase
awareness of fostering,
adoption, Isaiah 117 House,
CASA, and Bridge
Timbi Talks About Addiction
distribution and School
Reading with Trish Luna
Handle with Care
Working on getting Kayln
Machuta in for a social media
safety talk to middle schoolers
Angel tree adoptions
The vision of the Tennessee Alliance for Drug
Endangered Children is that every child in
Tennessee has the opportunity to experience a
safe and healthy childhood free from the use of
drugs and the effects of drug exposure.
www.nationaldec.org
For a relatively new program that works hands-on with children and their
families, 2020 has not been without its obstacles and challenges! This year was a
whirlwind of excitement and new approaches. Our staff at Bridge Program is
second-to-none. We search for solutions for every difficulty, knowing, if we
brainstorm hard enough, we can overcome and find one!
January started out harmless, as our children unwittingly set goals to reach
Grandaddy's Farm toward for the new year. No one knew what this year was bringing!
February, our Friday Night Done Right was a family cooking class. We attempted
to complete a service-learning project by making homemade dog treats for the
animals at Animal Harbor, but their facility flooded, and we had to cancel. This should have been our first clue from 2020.
In March, we had a Spring Family Retreat complete with an escape room challenge. Immediately after that, we had to shut down in-
person operations due to Covid-19, and we began to brainstorm on how to reach these kids and continue the program while keeping
everyone safe.
We made Quarantine Kits and delivered them to their doorsteps. These kits consisted of tips for parents, ways to structure their days,
dry erase daily schedules and chores lists to mark off, lists of online activities, crafts, a small terra cotta pot and seeds to plant, drawing
tutorials, word searches, kites, toys, and other activities. It was great to see our Bridge kids and families, and touch base with them
during quarantine as we dropped off these boxes at their doorsteps.
In weeks following, we realized we would need to stay shut down for longer than just a couple of weeks. So every 2-3 weeks, we planned
our weeks, filling quarantine boxes with booklets we made with the content from our Positive Action curriculum. We added activities we
would do together on Zoom video meetings each week, including all the components needed for each activity. We even did an art project
and Zumba via zoom!
Even during quarantine, our Bridge kids participated in a service-learning project, making drawings, messages and artwork for patients
in the hospital to offer encouragement. We picked those up as we dropped off our next quarantine box.
While families stayed at home, we partnered with TN Voices’ Strengthening Families Program and offered parents online parenting
sessions each week. We also informed families of food banks, food stamp assistance, and other resources in the community. We even
facilitated one parent’s admission to alcohol and drug treatment during the shutdown, and this parent is back home and reunited with
children.
Our Friday Night Done Right- Quarantine Edition was so much fun. We dropped off Family Olympic kits which contained a craft to make
a “torch,” a list of “Olympic” challenges and instructions (one challenge involved cheeseballs, a shower cap, and shaving cream), medals
and a trophy for the ultimate winner.
Our Bridge staff shot two videos during quarantine that were showcased on the Franklin County Schools’ livestream, which reached the
entire Franklin County school system.
As we opened our doors back up, we celebrated with another much-needed family retreat out at Camp Rain. Families participated in
Survivor challenges that involved collaboration, critical thinking, perseverance, communication, and more.
We opened just in time to provide camp registration and camp kits for Bridge participants who needed financial assistance to attend
camp. We provided camp kits because sleeping bags, shoes, toiletries, bags, pillows, etc. are just as expensive and difficult to gather
financially. Middle Schoolers and Elementary students went to camp and had a blast and learned and grew so much from the
experience.
Our Friday Nights Done Right following quarantine involved
us renting the swimplex for a back to school fun night
(flashbacks of seeing grandparents doing a “cannonball into
the water will never leave our minds); a take-home movie night
package complete with pizza and candy and popcorn and a
Redbox movie code; family golf at Bear Trace driving range,
and Granddaddy’s Farm night. Unfortunately, our
Thanksgiving dinner was canceled due to rising numbers in
Covid-19.This year has looked very different, but we have used
this as an opportunity to grow and persevere. The trust
between Bridge staff and Bridge families has grown as a result.
Our families have looked to us for so much support this year.
We have connected them to resources, spoken regularly with
each family, and empowered them as parents/guardians. Our
children looked forward to seeing us on Zoom each week, and
Bear Trace
we have kept that positive momentum as we have opened back
up in person. Bridge is thankful for our community’s support
and involvement, and we are looking forward to the coming
months of Bridge Program!
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