More than 80,000 people died in 2021 of an opioid overdose nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control, including prescription opioids, heroin and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. To help counter this trend, Michael Quattrocchi, grant manager at NyECC, and his team have placed four Naloxone dispensers, which look like newspaper vending machines, in Nye County over the past five months.
Raising a child can be hard. That’s something the members of Pahrump Mothers Corner understand all too well. In an effort to ease the challenges of parenthood, particularly for new and expecting families, this group of local moms banded together to host a Community Baby Shower and the event proved to be very popular, leading to its return for the third year running.
After many months of hard work and dedication, Nevada Outreach Training Organization has now officially secured the funding and permitting necessary to allow for the operation of an 8-bed temporary emergency housing facility for its clients.
Human trafficking is something that affects communities all around the globe and though it can be a difficult and distressing subject to confront, Soroptimist International Pahrump Valley isn’t shying away from it.