Help fund period products for our neighbors!

RISE: Healthy for Life invites you to help support our neighbors--it takes a community. Help us prevent school and work absences, embarrassment, and hardship by donating to provide period products for free in our region.

RISE partners with about 15 organizations to provide period products to their clients, and we provide them at all of our programming and events as well. And people are soooooo excited to get free period products!

In the past 6 month we have given away more than 3,000 period products, and demand is still growing.

Please donate to prevent school/work absences and shame while lightening the burden for people with periods—and their families!

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Triennial Community Member Survey

This Community Member Survey is a comprehensive data collection effort to identify the strengths, challenges, and opportunities to address and improve health in the Appalachian Highland RegionThank you for helping us identify the most pressing issues the Appalachian Highland Region is facing. The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. 

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Stellar Sex Ed Facilittor Training Jan 23-24, 2024

This training will enable facilitators to provide Stellar Sex Ed to middle- and high-school youth and adults AND to "stellarize" other curricula so it is more affirming and trauma-informed while adhering to local and state restrictions.

Facilitator training will cover curriculum content as well as facilitation best practices and tips for making any sex ed more accessible to all neurotypes, genders, colors, abilities, and orientations. Electronic access to the curriculum is included for trainees who complete the course successfully.

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Last Story Time (Nov 18) Cancelled

Hello, friends of all ages! Thanks so much for your support and parrticipation. We are cancelling the last story time due to a scheduling conflict. We hope to see everyone in the Spring for an Our Whole Lives series for kids in Kindergarten through 2nd grade. This program will discuss bodies and families, feelings and babies, consent and identity—stay tuned for updates!

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Thank you, friends of RISE!

Thank you to everyone who supports RISE every day, all year round—you all know who you are and we are so grateful. We honestly would not exist without you all! Specifically we’d like to shower a little thanks on folx who have helped through this transition.

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