Programs
- Prevention Programs
- TN SAVE A LIFE
- Project Lifeline
- Bridge Program
- Tennessee Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
- Count It Lock It Drop It
Off Premise: TIPS for Off Premise teaches your staff how to recognize when a customer is intoxicated or underage. In addition to preventing the illegal sale of alcohol, store employees learn how to handle intoxicated customers and keep them from harming themselves and others. The intervention techniques reflect the short period of time a clerk has to interact with a customer.
Target Audience: grocery stores, liquor stores, gas stations, and convenience stores.
The Challenges: Even when alcohol is sold “to go,” employees may encounter alcohol-related problems. Clerks must be especially careful not to sell alcohol to underage or intoxicated customers and they usually have little time to assess the situation when making the sale.
The Solution: TIPS for Off Premise teaches your staff how to recognize when a customer is intoxicated or underage. In addition to preventing the illegal sale of alcohol, store employees learn how to handle intoxicated customers and keep them from harming themselves and others. The intervention techniques reflect the short period of time a clerk has to interact with a customer
Additional Benefits: TIPS can help improve relations with your community. TIPS training demonstrates a commitment to preventing alcohol-related problems and a desire to be a part of the solution. Liquor boards and local authorities tend to look favorably on stores that incorporate TIPS, which can lead to more lenient penalties in the event of a liquor violation. TIPS for Off Premise can also help a store protect itself from possible litigation and often results in reduced liability.
Location: Campora Family Resource Center
900 South Shepherd Street
Winchester, TN 37398
Date: Every 3rd Wednesday
9am – 12pm
For more information or to register contact:
Jessie Sheehan, Certified TIPS Trainer
jessie.sheehan@fcstn.net
or Melanie Morrow, Certified TIPS Trainer
melanie.morrow@fcstn.net
(931) 800-9112
Compliance Checks are performed in our county regularly. Special THANK YOU to the following establishments for NOT selling alcohol to minors! Keep up the good work!!
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The number of opioid deaths in Tennessee is rising every year.
3,814 people died from opioid overdose in 2021
The TN Save a Life program is designed to increase awareness across Tennessee on the dangers of opioids and stimulants, and the available resources for overdose prevention. Training is provided to anyone in Tennessee at no charge through Regional Overdose Prevention Specialists (ROPS) who reach all 95 counties. ROPS provide training to individuals and groups on substance misuse in Tennessee, the brain science of addiction, and how to recognize and respond to an overdose, including how to use the life-saving drug naloxone. Information is also presented on how to get naloxone. This training certifies an individual under the Tennessee Good Samaritan Law. This program provides naloxone to eligible individuals as designated by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
Franklin County Prevention Coalition is responsible for providing TN Save a Life Training at no charge for individuals and groups in the following Tennessee counties:
- Franklin
- Lincoln
- Moore
- Giles
- Lawrence
- Wayne
- Lewis
- Perry
- Hickman
- Maury
- Marshall
- Bedford
- Coffee
Trainings in these counties are conducted by ROPS Dustin Ritchie.
If you are located in one of these counties and interested in training, please follow the links below to sign up for one of our monthly trainings or to request an individual or group training. Questions? Contact Dustin Ritchie at 931-308-3535 or dustin.ritchie@fcstn.net
If you are located in a different county in the region, review the map below to find your local R.O.P.S.
For more information on ROPS visit :https://www.tn.gov/behavioral-health/substance-abuse-services/prevention/rops.html
What is Lifeline?
Lifeline was created to reduce the stigma that is attached to people with addiction, and helping to defer individuals from incarceration to treatment and supporting those throughout recovery services.
What We Offer:
Coordinators can help you find and establish 12-step meetings in your area.
Treatment
Treatment is individualized and can be detox, residential, intensive outpatient, or outpatient care. It is supervised by professional providers who may or may not take insurance. Coordinators can help with treatment referrals.
Communication & Education
Coordinators speak all over the state educating audiences about recovery, addiction, and prevention. Education includes speaking everywhere from business conferences and schools, to prisons and jails.
Franklin County Prevention Coalition is responsible for providing Lifeline Service for individuals and groups in the following Tennessee counties:
- Franklin
- Lincoln
- Moore
- Giles
- Lawrence
- Wayne
- Lewis
- Perry
- Hickman
- Maury
- Marshall
- Bedford
- Coffee
- Moore
There are 10 regional Lifeline coordinators across the state of Tennessee. The Lifeline project has imbedded into substance abuse prevention coalitions because of their deep roots and connections in communities. If you are located in a different county in the region, review the map below to find your local Recovery Coordinator.
After school and summer programming for ages 8-18
Every Monday and Tuesday 4-6 PM
Location: 900 South Shepherd St
What is Bridge?
Our program Bridge is an after- school program designed using a multi-faceted approach to working with the youth of Franklin County. At Bridge, we teach life skills, provide team building activities, social skills, emotional management, service learning projects, and much more.
We use a curriculum called Positive Action which teaches that positive actions create a positive self- concept, causing you to think positively, and desire to do more positive actions. Bridge teaches that when you do good, you feel good.
Family Engagement
At Bridge, we believe that parent involvement is critical for the success of the child and the family as a unit. We provide many opportunities for children and parents/guardians to connect and build relationship. Family Night Done Right , Family Retreats, Quarterly Parent Workshops
Participants Access :
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Positive Action
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Franklin Co Sheriff’s Dept. Mentor
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Strengthening Families Program
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Family Retreats
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Enrichment Activities
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Service Learning Project
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Community Resources
For more information or to make a referral: Felicia Kelsey, Bridge Coordinator & Juvenile Court Liaison 931-308-4484 felicia.kelsey@fcstn.net
What is a Drug Exposed Child?
A drug exposed child is one whose brain and/or body has been affected because his/her parents used drugs or alcohol during pregnancy, and/or who is living in a home where drugs are abused and/or are illegally made, sold, traded, or given away.
FACTS
- Substance abuse contributes to 75% of incidents of child abuse and neglect of children in foster care
- Nearly 80% of children in foster care have prenatal exposure to maternal substance abuse
- 80% of the children in foster care have at least one long-term health problem
- 25% of children in foster care have 3 or more long-term health problems, which is 3 to 7 times greater than the number of health problems found among other children living in poverty
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Children found in drug endangered environments are at greater risk for physical, emotional and developmental harm. These children may experience severe neglect, physical or sexual abuse, may suffer from respiratory conditions and may be malnourished and experience developmental delays. A drug endangered children (DEC) program will help rescue, defend, shelter and support at risk children in your community from these devastating effects.
Which professionals can look for signs and evidence of risks to children?
Every professional who comes in contact with children and/or parents/caretakers has the opportunity to identify risks to children. This would include the obvious: child welfare, law enforcement, medical, teachers OR educators, prevention and treatment professionals, and fire/ems. But it can also include the not so obvious: code enforcement, camp counselors, housing authorities, utility workers, nurse-family partnerships, and others.
Why is it critical that professionals understand and identify risks to children?
To be able to report to appropriate agencies (i.e. Child Welfare, Law Enforcement)
- To allow for earlier identification, intervention, and services for drug endangered children
- To increase information and evidence for other professionals in order to help drug endangered children
- To enhance investigations and cases of all disciplines
- To enhance the capacity of each agency to better serve children
- To increase the likelihood of breaking the multigenerational cycles of abuse and neglect and substance abuse
What can professionals look for?
- Signs of children
- Indicators of increased risk of abuse or neglect
- Signs of physical, emotional, sexual abuse
- Signs of actual neglect
DEC Approach:
No single entity can effectively or efficiently address the Drug Endangered children dilemma. Our goal is to collaboratively combine the expertise and resources of multiple professionals, agencies and communities to improve interventions for children and their families.
- By collaborating, we increase the likelihood of success for the good of children and families.
- By collaborating, it will make you or your organization a part of the larger solution.
- By collaborating, you will be connected to other professionals working on the same challenges.
- By collaborating, it will help you advocate more effectively on behalf of children and families in the state of Tennessee
The Tennessee Alliance for Drug Endangered Children approach is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the formation of community-based partnerships to engage professionals from multiple disciplines in developing a collaborative approach to rescue, defend, shelter and support children living in drug environments. Our goal is to implement a systematic change across the state. The change will be a new proactive approach for addressing the needs of our children to prevent exposure to human trafficking and the dangerous drug epidemic.
Signing up families now for TN Camp Thrive! Check out this great program below!
This project is funded under a Grant Contract with the State of Tennessee
Count It! Lock It! Drop It!® (CLD) is a community initiative supported by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Health Foundation. CLD empowers and educates individuals on how they can help prevent prescription drug misuse by properly counting, locking or disposing of prescription medications.
Count It!
Make it a goal to count your pills once every two weeks.
This will prevent theft and help ensure medications are taken properly.
Lock It!
Lock up your medications and store them in a secure place that others would not think to look. According to two-thirds of Tennesseans, the main source of prescription pain pills are friends and relatives*. Protect your loved ones by purchasing lock boxes to securely store medications. If not used properly, prescription drugs can be as harmful and dangerous as illicit drugs.
Check with your local coalition to see if a lock box is available to you for no charge.
You can also purchase lock boxes at local grocery stores and pharmacies.
Drop It!
Drop off your unused or expired medications for proper disposal at drop boxes located in participating law enforcement offices or pharmacies.
Local Drop Off Locations:
Franklin County Sheriff’s Department
494 George Fraley Pkwy, Winchester, TN 37398
931.962.0123
Winchester Police Department
401 2nd Ave SW, Winchester, TN 37398
931.967.3840
Cowan Police Department
106 N Cherry St, Cowan, TN 37318
931.962.0110
Decherd Police Department
1301 W Main St, Decherd, TN 37324
931.967-3840
Estill Springs Police Department
308 S Main St, Estill Springs, TN 37330
931.649.2233
Huntland City Hall
100 Banks Street Huntland, TN. 37345
931.469.7702
Sewanee Police & Fire Department
111 Alabama Ave, Sewanee, TN 37375
931.598.1111
Click here to download the medication count sheet
Need a medication lock box?
Call us, we will be happy to give you one FREE!
931-800-9112