This coming Saturday, August 31st, is International Overdose Awareness Day. The Vermilion County ROSC Council, that’s area organizations that formed the “Recovery Oriented System of Care,” will be having special activities in the Danville Public Library 1st floor conference room from 2:30 to 4:30.
Jim Russell, Executive Director of the Vermilion County Mental Health 708 Board, says this is meant to provide important education, through area resources, about the seriousness of one of the world’s worst public health crisis. In addition to the various resource tables, rock painting will be offered as an activity. As Russell explains, the idea is to “paint the county purple.”
AUDIO: Purple is the color for recovery. So, the rock painting will be painting rocks purple; and then people can either take them home with them, or put them out someplace where people would notice. And hopefully, again, draw some attention to overdose awareness.
Between 3 and 4 PM at the library on Saturday will be Narcan distribution and training; allowing residents to learn how to use Narcan to help someone recover from an opioid overdose.
