Community Involvement Can Help Knock Out Opioid Abuse

14-year-old Toms River resident Alessandra Sophia Regenye, is determined to help bring focus to the opioid crisis impacting her hometown and used her recent Jersey Shore Girl Scout Cadette Silver Award Project to do just that, by creating the Toms River “Art Heals” Community Mural for Healing and Recovery.

Alessandra Sophia, with many community volunteers created the “Arts Heals” mural in downtown Toms River to bring awareness to the Opioid Crisis and to remind residents and visitors to that hope for recovery is possible. Alessandra Sophia explained that her project is meant to bring communities together and inspire others to get involved and make their community a better place in some way.

She was able to achieve her goal of bringing together many local stakeholders who were able, through the “Arts Heals” project to be part of the solution to address the opioid crisis in their town. Next week, the Knock Out Opioid Abuse Town Hall Series begins again, with a focus on what is happening to develop a solution to the opioid crisis in individual communities across our state. Alessandra Sophia will be one of those featured at the September 25th event in Toms River, and I invite all those with ties to the community to attend. Each of us, regardless of our age -- as Alessandra Sophia demonstrated -- can help raise awareness and educate our neighbors and friends on the opioid crisis, whether through attending a town hall or sharing information during Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day.

With her “Art Heals” project, Alessandra Sophia set out to raise awareness of the impact of the opioid crisis on Toms River and provide healing to so many who have been impacted by the Opioid Epidemic through in her hometown, like her we all can take a role in developing a solution to Knock Out Opioid Abuse in our communities.

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