Santa Rosa Junior College Student Health Services and the Students for Recovery club will host “Save the Youth” to memorialize the students who have died of fentanyl overdoses and to promote drug harm reduction awareness at 6 p.m. Aug. 26 in the Bertolini Quad.
Tova Esbit, Student Health Services outreach specialist, and Daniel Lionett, Students For Recovery president, have invited guest speakers, including family members of students who have overdosed, for the event. Local drug rehabilitation and support organizations will provide resources for harm prevention as well.
Esbit said SRJC student Kyle Emerson’s overdose death in June, following multiple high school student overdose deaths earlier this year, inspired the event. She believes these deaths are not isolated incidents, but a result of a community in crisis, which is why she chose the “Prevention Through Connection” theme…