Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse, Inc.

Please view our video, 50 Years of Hope. Produced by Kenosha Community Media, the video was premiered at the Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse’s annual meeting on Tuesday, June 4.

The Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse turned 50 this year! Read about some of the work that we’ve accomplished throughout the last 50 years in the Kenosha News article linked below. We’d love to hear how the Hope Council on Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse has positively affected your life. Please contact […]

Great job Common Council and KRW Tobacco-Free Coalition! Our very own Michelle Sandberg provided resources to the council members throughout the entire process. Read more about the updated ordinance below.   https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/city-clamps-down-on-e-cigarette-use/article_28b882d3-bb0f-5585-9af2-e5e2bd1ad376.html

    This morning members of the KRW Tobacco-Free Coalition met with State Representative Tod Ohnstad for an educational meeting on electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). For more information on ENDS please visit www.tobaccoischanging.com

By Dick Ginkowski and Guida Brown SPECIAL TO THE KENOSHA NEWS Jan 20, 2019 A recent editorial in the Kenosha News indicated that “It’s time to support efforts to crack down on first-time drunken driving,” in response to a proposal by state Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. Jim Ott, both Republicans, to make a first-time […]

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By TERRY FLORES tflores@kenoshanews.com Retailers who offer tobacco products refrained from selling to minors 100 percent of the time during compliance checks performed at 80 establishments in Kenosha County last year. That’s good news for county law enforcement and local tobacco officials who have been working to prevent illegal sales and deter youth from picking […]

By HEATHER LARSON POYNER hpoyner@kenoshanews.com They come in flavors like mango, banana and lemon berry and their dispensers be customized with images of cultural icons like Captain America and Cap’n Crunch. But, say health experts, the coolest thing in “not quite smoking” is also the most dangerous thing since Marlboro Reds. Non-tobacco smoking products — […]

By HEATHER LARSON POYNER hpoyner@kenoshanews.com At a recent gathering hosted by the Kenosha, Racine and Walworth Tobacco-Free Coalition and the Hope Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, legislators, health care professionals, law enforcement officers and community representatives learned about problems posed by electronic nicotine delivery systems, also known as ENDS. These problems include the […]

There’s an event nearly every day in order to help a nonprofit organization raise money to provide its services. The choices are overwhelming, even to me, and I love fundraisers! Remember that, in general, nonprofits need to raise funds from people who don’t need the services in order to provide services to people who can’t […]