Nov
07
2023
We are excited to announce the opening reception of the Portraits Exhibit, “We Are All in This Together: Stories of Hope and Recovery.” Join Healing Cortland, the Cortland Area Recovery Project and documentary photographer Zack Bolton for the opening...
Oct
16
2023
The Fall 2023 Cortland County Drug Take Back Event, held on Saturday, September 30, 2023, was an important step towards building safer communities. This event allowed citizens to responsibly dispose of prescription medications that had been dormant in their...
Oct
12
2023
Leading up to every Halloween, we see a spike in worries around children’s safety. There are some very real safety concerns, but the biggest worry for most parents should be cars. On Halloween, children are more than twice as...
Sep
19
2023
When the HEALing Communities Study project kicked off in May 2020, it coincided with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since in person meetings were not an options, project staff instead met one on one with over 40 stakeholders...
Aug
23
2023
The Truxton Town Fire Department will soon have an N-POD–a Narcan Point of Distribution–in front of its station. Quick and easy access to this life-saving medication when someone is overdosing from an opioid is crucial. To expand public access in a life-threatening...
May
19
2023
CACTC was recently awarded a grant through CNY Arts to continue its work with photographer Zack Bolton to capture portraits and stories tied to the overdose death crisis in Central NY. This is the continuation of a project that has...
Mar
19
2023
No matter who we are or where we come from, we all know at least one person affected by Opioid Use Disorder. In 2021, 16 individuals died from an opioid- related overdose in Cortland County (coroner). Opioids remained a...
Aug
31
2022
What's been happening with the HCS?
After another successful Opioid Task Force meeting on Monday, August 15, the HEALing Communities Study project -- a Cortland County initiative to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths by 40% over 18 months -- is now...
Jul
27
2022
What happened?
On July 18th, Healing Cortland's Opioid Task Force met for its first full meeting, kicking off the "implementation phase" of the HEALing Communities Study (HCS).
Over the course of the next 18 months, the Opioid Task Force will look...
Jun
08
2022
The Youth Voices Matter Youth Summit is an inaugural one-day conference that will be welcoming youth and young adults along with service providers to network, learn, and discuss the "Ages and Stages of Recovery" in-person at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
This...
