Nonprofit News

Lectures, Hiking, Bird Watching and Leaf Peeping highlight goings on at Tanglewood Nature Center and Museum for the rest of the month of October. However, the nature center remains closed until Oct. 20 due to COVID-19 concerns. Trails remain open.

Starting Saturday October 17 a great opportunity for Fathers and Father Figures to connect and share advice and common experiences returns for 13 Saturday sessions via Zoom from 10 a.m. to Noon.

Southern Tier Tobacco Awareness Coalition offers insight into the tobacco industry’s marketing tactics, offers ways to disrupt tobacco addiction in communities, creates engagement opportunities for youth and call on people to act to curb tobacco use.

ProAction is now ready to enroll youth age 8-18 in its new Youth Development program that is starting out as a supervised remote learning site at Bethel Assembly Church in Bath. There is no cost to families.

Chemung County Department of Social Services has compiled an extensive list of help for people facing food insecurity in the county and schedule of available services. See the following for details.

The Alzheimer’s Association, Rochester and Finger Lakes Region Chapter offers a variety of care and support programs to those impacted by Alzheimer’s or another dementia. All programs listed are free of charge. Please register by calling 800-2723900 or visit alz.org/CRF.

Due to COVID concerns and to facilitate on-site POD learning, Tanglewood’s Nature Center will be closed to the public until Oct. 20. Trails remain open.

Fantastic programing surrounding timely issue including handling pandemic stress, removing transportation barriers to work, voting, diversity and inclusion training, registering for FLXGives annual day of giving and other items.

In this issue, the coalition tackles topics that include pending legalization of marijuana, alcohol abuse during the pandemic, shines a light on the Tik Tok Benadryl Challenge and issues its report on Opioids & Teens.