Communities That Care

Posted on January 13, 2012

This week’s blog by Adam K.

This week’s blog entry is penned by Five Town CTC Board member Adam Kohlstrom, who is also the pastor of Chestnut Street Baptist Church.  The faith community here has been an important part of the success of our efforts, and Adam has been active with the coalition and its efforts since we got started when he was a youth pastor.  Here is an excerpt from this week’s post:

“While the faith community seems increasingly comfortable with and competent in its support for those healing from substance abuse, how are we doing at prevention?  Prevention seems a far more elusive and insubstantial goal.  It is easier to grasp how we treat substance use problems than how it is we might prevent those same problems in the first place.” READ MORE

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