The Town of Bluffton received $25,915.25 from the South Carolina Opioid Recovery Fund. Chief Babkiewick presented information about Bluffton’s Opioid Settlement Fund during LCAHY’s September Community Board meeting. Click here to view his presentation. The Town of Bluffton selected the Lowcountry Alliance for Healthy Youth (LCAHY) to receive $10,400.96 of these funds to use towards a social media campaign, created by youth, to educate youth about the dangers of opioid/ medication misuse and abuse and the dangers of fentanyl. LCAHY’s College Interns created the scripts, which were edited by Teens for Healthy Youth Summer Interns. LCAHY worked with WSAV to develop the UTube/True Vue and audio streaming PSAs. Click here to view Peer-to-peer PSAs. Developing a public health awareness campaign is an environmental strategy activity in LCAHY’s 12-month Action plan under Strategy 1 Providing Information in the Seven Strategies of Community Level Change. To view more LCAHY’s PSA visit LCAHY’s website at PSAs.
Chief Babkiewick attended LCAHY’s August Board Meeting to present on the disbursement of the Town of Bluffton’s Opioid Settlement Funds to LCAHY.
Ethan Barrera and Ella McCarthy, LCAHY College interns, drafted the scripts for the PSAs reviewed by LCAHY/THY summer interns.
LCAHY/THY Summer Interns, Juliette Blackwell, Aviana Stevens, Sophia Blackwell, Ashlyn Elrod, and Aya Bagnibe, reviewed the PSAs.
WSAV presented youth-to-youth PSAs and analytics to LCAHY’s Community Board.
McKencie Guerro and Ethan Barrera translate youth-to-youth PSAs into Spanish.
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