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The Knowledge is Power conference focuses on families impacted by their loved one’s disease of addiction. Amidst the opioid crisis in our country many conferences/resources have been made available to help the professionals in the field working with individuals struggling with substance use disorder. This conference seeks to highlight the ways that families can find recovery through education, peer support and self-care strategies. This is a family disease; through education, our hope is to empower the family.

Who Should Attend: Anyone that has a family member or loved one that is struggling with the disease of addiction or is in recovery. Professionals in the recovery field that want to learn more about how to help families are invited to attend.

Cost: $40 (lunch included)
For more details (class descriptions & speaker bios) please visit www.learn2cope.org.

The 4th annual BeanStock Music Festival will be held on 7/20/19 at 3:00pm! This is a sober music festival! Tons of fantastic bands including The Amy Incident, The Spins, Lily Black, The Houston Bernard Band and Carrisa Johnson & the Cure-Alls!!!!! Join in the $1,000 Frisbee toss and the Kan Jam tournament! Lots of other fun stuff too like food trucks, raffles, bounce obstacle course, graffiti art, community resources and activities with the Braintree Community Art Center. Tickets only $5.00! 10 and under are free. To play in the Kan Jam Tourney, please purchase ticket(s) and then email robyn@thesunwillrise.org and let her know who your teammate is for the two person team. Singles will be paired randomly. $25.00 per person to play in tourney, includes festival entry fee. Prize will be determined by number of people playing. Please come and help support The Sun Will Rise Foundation!

This is an alcohol and drug free event.

This event benefits The Sun Will Rise Foundation. The Sun Will Rise Foundation exists because Robyn Houston-Bean lost her twenty year old son Nicholas Bean to an accidental overdose in May of 2015. Trying to find purpose and a reason to go on after a traumatic sudden loss, she knew that when she could function again, she would do something in his memory. Knowing the value of peer grief support groups, and the need for some in her area, she decided to start a Massachusetts grief support group called The Sun Will Rise, for those that have lost a loved one to overdose or substance use disorder. She had attended a group in Brighton and found it so helpful, but knew that one was needed closer, and set out to initiate one, so those on the South Shore and Braintree/Weymouth/Quincy Massachusetts area would not be alone in their grief. In December 2015, the grief group held its first meeting at the Braintree Town Hall.

The Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit charity, expanding from just overdose/substance use grief support, was created shortly after that. Its further dedication of providing education, awareness and prevention was a normal progression for those who loved Nick, not wanting other families to feel the utter devastation that they do. Speaking in front of parents, community members and teens at schools and other venues, Robyn has shared her family’s story to let people know that substance use disorder can happen to any family. She shares with parents, the risk factors that she feels she missed and urges teens to be part of the solution by helping their friends if they are worried about their use of alcohol or drugs. She tries to help erase the preconceived notions people have about those with substance use disorder and erase the stigma.

August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day. Braintree Community Partnership on Substance Use will be hosting a ceremony on Thursday, August 29th at 10am at the Braintree Town Hall. Details to come.

More info to come.