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CURRENT 2-YEAR PLAN By LEAH SANDER Staff Writer A substance abuse symposium and mental health chats are part of Fulton County Healing Through Opportunity, Positivity and Empowerment’s current two-year plan. H.O.P.E. President and Co-Founder Amy Roe recently detailed those plans to The Shopping Guide News of Fulton County. H.O.P.E.’s mission statement as listed on its website is that it “strives to be the driving force in providing awareness and education to the residents of Fulton County regarding resources as well as provide pathways to accessing those resources.” The nonprofit, founded in 2018, has three areas of focus: substance abuse, mental health and poverty. Casey Jones, Becky Clark and Tammy Wilson respectively lead committees on those subjects. Roe said H.O.P.E. works as an “incuba-
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tor” to develop solutions to help people, letting others run any initiatives started. “We are the folks who are saying, ‘Hey, this was an identified need, let’s find a resource to start that conversation or move the needle,’” she said. H.O.P.E. collects data though quarterly meetings, which is used for planning. The substance abuse symposium, which doesn’t have a specific date yet, would be the second one H.O.P.E.’s ever had, with the first happening around when the organization started. “It helped to spur on (the substance abuse support group) Celebrate Recovery (locally and) the Recovery Cafe (in Rochester and) support the Drug Court (in Fulton County),” said Roe of the first symposium. “So now we feel like it’s time to be able to bring that conversation up again and say, ‘OK, are we meeting the expectations still, are there gaps that we have, are there challenges that we’re dealing with, are we
doing this well, is there something that we need to potentially pivot to?’” she added. It was Clark, who works for 4C Health, who suggested having a symposium again. She also mentioned having the mental health chats, which will probably be next year. “Knowing that the suicide rate has increased ... (Clark) made a case to the board that ... even though they’ve done a lot of work, there’s still this huge (mental health) stigma,” said Roe. Roe said the chats will address such topics as “what is seasonal effective disorder, what is depression, what is anxiety, caregiver burnout.” Another of H.O.P.E.’s goals is working on creating a facility or better resources in the county for abuse victims. Roe said leaders recently met with repContinued on page 3
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