Guest Perspective: Making The Most Of Your Freshman Year

First year college students are getting ready to start a new adventure in learning.  We checked in with coalition member, Michele Whitmore, Associate Dean of Students at Northern Vermont University – Johnson campus to get a few tips for students heading off to...

Healthy Lamoille Valley Fall Coalition Meeting: The State of Our Youth

Healthy Lamoille Valley Fall Coalition Meeting: The State of Our Youth An invitation…if you are a student, parent, grandparent, aunt/uncle, caregiver, service provider or community member you can be a community partner with Healthy Lamoille Valley! We all share a...

A happy and safe July 4th!

July 4th! Many celebrations provide unintentional opportunities for youth to use alcohol, marijuana, tobacco and other drugs, increasing youth substance abuse.  Please monitor any alcohol, tobacco, or adult-use marijuana that may be present at your celebrations!...

Marijuana Legalization – What Does It Mean For You?

Marijuana Legalization – What Does It Mean For You? DATE AND TIME Tue, July 17, 2018 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT Add to Calendar LOCATION Green Mountain Technology and Career Center 738 Vermont 15 Hyde Park, VT 05655   On July 1st adult use marijuana becomes legal. Do...

Talking to Youth About Marijuana

We’d like to share this blog post Jessica Bickford wrote for Copley Hospital’s blog “Live Well Lamoille”.   Learn about the impacts of marijuana on teens, and download some facts you can share with teens, and find some tools for parents to...

It’s in the Nanomoments

A thought for your day… It’s often in the simple quick moments that we find reason to pause… the calm in a line, verse, or passage.  The quiet gratitude in the moment that encourages us to draw closer… breathe deeper, slow the work crazed...