Fentanyl – Know The Risk – Oregon City Together

Fentanyl & Other Drug Awareness

Our efforts toward Fentanyl and other drugs awareness continues in 2024-2025, thanks to another grant from Oregon City’s Metro Enhancement Division. We are so grateful for their support to keep our youth and community healthy and safe.

Peer Led Fentanyl & Vaping Awareness Campaign

Join us in celebrating these amazing Communications Student Interns and their inspiring mentor, Caitlin Bergstrom!

Trishtin Cook, Paisley Davies, and Levi Pinkerton brought their creativity, passion, and dedication to the Know the Risk Fentanyl & Vaping Awareness Campaigns.

They researched the impact of fentanyl and vaping on youth, then turned their findings into powerful, youth-focused messaging in a variety of formats—designed to inform, engage, and protect their peers.

See their impressive work here: https://www.ocsd62.org/know-the-risk.

They also decided to conduct a Student Video Contest using scripts that they wrote to encourage their peers to get creative and share the prevention message. Stay tuned to hear who our winning entries were!

Thank you, Trishtin, Paisley, Levi, and Caitlin, for your leadership and heart. You’re helping shape a safer, more informed community.

Social Media Campaigns & Billboard:

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Reached via social media campaigns

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Reached via billboard at 99E and 12th Street

Community Forum on Fentanyl & Other Drugs

Many thanks to everyone who showed up for the youth of Oregon City tonight at our Family Forum on Fentanyl & Other Drugs! We had a fabulous program of speakers and panel Q & A.

Folks were able to check out the Hidden In Plain Sight mock teen bedroom display and meet Alfie, Ofcr. Pohl’s newest K9 team member!

Everywhere we go, we hear…more and more of us are touched by addiction in some way. The work we do in primary prevention can help educate kids so they’ll Know the Risk and avoid going down that road.

Learn more from the youth-led vaping and fentanyl impact campaign here: www.ocsd62.org/know-the-risk.

We are grateful to Oregon City’s Enhancement grant program for the funding for this program and our partnerships with Oregon City Police and Oregon City School District 62!

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Student Assemblies & Video Resource

Over 3,000 students in the district heard the ‘Know the Risk’ message about the impact and dangers of fentanyl & vaping on teen lives. They were also encouraged to sign the PLEDGE to stay away from random pills and to share the message with their families and peers. Many thanks to Michele Stroh for sharing the story of her son Keaton, Oregon City’s first fentanyl poisoning case ever.

We are so grateful for our partnership with the school district to share this important information AND to Oregon City’s Metro Enhancement Grant.