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The Need for Spinal Injury Recovery Foundation

A family never plans on having a member severely injure their spine. While in intensive care, families face the extreme shock of suddenly having to arrange for long-term rehabilitation and around-the-clock care for their loved one. In Las Vegas, these families currently have little or no resources available to guide them through a myriad of crucial decisions that will impact the outcome of their loved one's long-term recovery.

Founder's Story

No one knows this better than Scott Frost, founder of SIRF, father, fiancé, loving son and entrepreneur. On May 10, 2009, Scott was injured in an off-road dirt bike accident that damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the neck down. What started as a day of fun in the hills south of Henderson Executive Airport turned into a near-fatal chain of events. [Read Scott's complete story here.]

SIRF's Origin

During the 70 days Scott spent in Las Vegas' Desert Canyon Rehabilitation Hospital, he watched other patients who didn't have the help of friends and family like he had. Many had given up hope for their futures. "It made me furious that this could happen in this day and age." I don't want anyone to have to go through the hopelessness of being so alone and distraught. I was surrounded by loved ones. I can't imagine if I hadn't had that.

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Peer Advocacy for Impaired Nurses! Jack Stem, RN

Chemical dependence and substance abuse are the leading public health problems in our society. The average age for a child’s first experiment with controlled substances is between 11-12 years of age! It’s not marijuana or alcohol. It comes from Mom and Dad’s, or Grandma and Grandpa’s medicine cabinet! While addiction was accepted as a disease in the 1950’s, we have yet truly to accept it as a disease. Until we do, and begin treating it as such, the numbers will continue to rise.

 

Addiction Prevention Education Services, my old web site, has joined with Peer Advocacy for Impaired Nurses, LLC to provide information regarding the disease of addiction. While much of the information is focused on the disease in the nursing professional, there is information and links to information for anyone dealing with substance abuse and chemical dependence in themselves, a loved one, friend, or colleague.

 

If you or someone you know needs assistance, help is available!

 

If the problem is life threatening or in need of immediate help:

 

• Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room or treatment center
• Suicide Hotline: 800-784-2433

 

If you recognize the problem is urgent (for help identifying, signs and behaviors)

 

• Call for peer assistance in your state (if a program exists)
• Call treatment centers in your area
• Call Peer Advocacy for Impaired Nurses, LLC at 513-833-4584

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Budget Cuts Spell Crisis for Women with HIV « SpeakEasy

Rallies for workers’ rights in Wisconsin and other states have raised critical awareness about the potential implications — and targets — of budget cuts across the US. But in addition to the fate of unions and public sector employees at the local and state level — the majority of whom are women — the battle over budgets will also determine the fate of key social services, many of them on which women and children in particular depend.

Nothing makes this more real for us at the Ms. Foundation than when our grantees report how budget cuts will impact — indeed, threaten — their own programs and their own communities. For example, just a few weeks ago, the Washington Department of Health decided to cut funding for the state’s only women-specific HIV/AIDS education and support program — a program run by Seattle-based BABES Network-YWCA, our longtime grantee. This decision, BABES tells us, along with an additional funding cut at the county level, will result in a 75 percent reduction in their program budget — an untenable outcome that will leave hundreds of women without critical support services.

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