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Home» news » Annual Fundraiser For Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey

Annual Fundraiser For Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Justin For Justice in news

GWOLFEMy son, your friend and relative, Justin Matthew Wolfe would have been turning 25 years old on June 11th of this year.  His life, however, was cut short at the age of 21 from a heroin overdose on December 19, 2012.

Over the past two years, I have worked with Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey (JFCS) to organize Right In Our Backyard, a program developed to increase awareness in the South Jersey community, prevent addiction and addiction-related deaths, and keep our youth healthy and armed with the knowledge to make informed decisions.  Through a panel presentation highlighting signs and effects of addiction, ways to seek help, tools to escape an uncomfortable situation, disposal methods of prescription narcotics, and how to begin the discussion if they or someone they know is suspected of taking drugs, we have reached close to 700 teens and their parents.

We have also partnered with Camden County for expanded outreach, and have traveled from the Jersey shore to Baltimore in furtherance of our goal of saving lives.  Tragically, the number of overdose deaths in New Jersey is more than triple the national rate, and “now [heroin overdose] eclipses homicide, suicide, car accidents and AIDS as a cause of death in the state.”  (NJ.com article of 7/8/15).

Please join me for Justin’s birthday benefit on Thursday, June 9th, at the Mansion in Voorhees, at 5:30pm.   ALL PROCEEDS raised at Justin’s benefit will go into the JFCS Right in Our Backyard Program, to enable us to continue to spread our message and save lives.

Please click here, and register for this very meaningful and important evening.

I look forward to seeing you and thank you, from the very bottom of my heart.

Sincerely,

Gregg Wolfe

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