and SWVCTC Dental Hygiene Program featured at FRN meeting

Sharon Bevins with FUTURES and Dr. Lisa Haddox-Heston presented information at the October Family Resource Network (FRN) meeting.

FUTURES, a nine bed, 90 day residential, non-medical, chemical detoxification unit for adult males 18 years and older, has been located in downtown Logan for the past four years. The FUTURES program services all of West Virginia. Bevins expressed that the goal of the program is to show a different way to live by treating the whole person as well as the illness. The waiting list is approximately six months long because the men start and finish as a group.

Bevins told participants that FUTURES is partnering with the Coal Mining Academy at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College (SWVCTC).

"It helps these men get the training they need to get a good job and provide for themselves," Bevins said. "Their evening training doesn't interfere with daytime treatment."

For more information, or to make a referral, contact Bevins at 304-792-7260 or 304-792-7261.

Heston-Haddox presented information about the SWVCTC Dental Hygiene Program. Students provide, under supervision, free dental services to the public at the Dental Hygiene Clinic located at Life Services Center on Holden Road. Services offered include x-rays, fluoride treatments, complete dental examinations, nutritional/dietary counseling and pit/fissure sealants. For more information or to make an appointment call 304-239-3137 or 304-896-7333.

Those in attendance at the October FRN meeting were Debbie Hon with Automated Health Systems; Nadine Adams, Mary Davis, Thomas Tolliver, Judy Cope, Andy Couch with FRN, Jessica Bailey and Julie Osborne with Lindsey Wilson College School of Professional Counseling; Sharon Bevins with FUTURES; Kristi Adkins with WVPRC; Eugene Snyder with Logan DHHR; Elizabeth Tackett with the Buffalo Creek Memorial Library; Jean Ray with Logan County Charitable and Educational Foundation: Teresa Mills with Cabell-Huntington Health Department; Robin Weiner with Logan Mingo Area Mental Health; Ashley Hamon and Amber Davis with Mentoring Children of Prisoner's Project; Samuel Pauley with KVC, Ginger Baker with Logan County Threat Preparedness; Sandra Davis with the Logan County Health Department; Alge Patterson-Day with SWVCTC, Debra Baisden-Fields with WV Division of Rehabilitation Services; Lisa Wimmer and Stephanie Birchfield with PIECES; Susan Perry with First Presbyterian Church; Dr. Lisa Haddox-Heston with SWVCTC Dental Hygiene Program; Ellen Browning with Children's Home Society/WECAN Program; Melissa Windell with Mingo County DHHR; Rev. Lee McDermott with First Presbyterian Church and Shannon Meade, Logan FRN Coordinator.

The Logan FRN meets the second Wednesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Logan. Meetings are open to the public. For more information contact Shannon Meade, FRN Coordinator at (304) 752-9536 or email at loganfrn@yahoo.com.

The next FRN meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 12. Special speakers are to be Norma Elkins, Logan DHHR MWIN Program, and Leslie Clegg, River Park Hospital.