Applications for Ohio Farm Bureau Health Plans now available
Members have three ways to apply: contacting a certified agent, calling 833-468-4280 or visiting ohiofarmbureauhealthplans.org.
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Hope for Ohio is for teens, parents, teachers and 4-H and FFA advisers. This event will help participants to see warning signs, explain peer-to-peer drug prevention tactics and provide tools to address our community’s opioid epidemic.
Details
Nov. 3
FFA Camp Muskingum
3266 Dyewood Rd. SW, Carrollton, OH 44615
Registration: 9:30 a.m. | Program 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Featuring
Wayne Campbell, founder of Tyler’s Light, whose son Tyler died of a heroin overdose after becoming addicted to prescription painkillers.
Dave Kohout, from Talk is Cheap, focusing on building character and instilling hope in the lives of young people.
Panel discussion with Erik Frederickson
By the numbers
- The toll of the epidemic has contributed to the first decline in U.S. life expectancy since 1993. The US drug overdose mortality rate is 17.7 deaths per 100k ages 15-64; Ohio’s is 39.5.
IN OUR COUNTIES… - Jefferson County 44.2
- Harrison County 22.5
- Carroll County 19.1
- Tuscarawas County 17.7
Carroll County alone saw a 76 percent increase in fatal drug and alcohol overdoses in the first six months of 2018 over the first half of 2017 according to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department.
Registration
To register, email [email protected]. All preregistered participants receive a T-shirt. Learn more and register.
Data according to the Opioid Misuse Community Assessment Tool – NORC at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Dept of Agriculture’s USDA Rural Development
My first recommendation in your journey is to start out with a local farming friend or mentor along with joining an organization like Ohio Farm Bureau.
We’re just so thankful for the Farm Bureau and the foundation for helping put this together. And of course, the Boyert family for the vision they had with this grant. It’s jumping us forward 10 years. It’s unbelievable.
I could not have done it without the resources I have found through Farm Bureau.
It wasn’t until I joined the Wilmington College Collegiate Farm Bureau that I truly saw how my passion could translate into leadership, advocacy and a career.
The issue of property taxation remains as one of the biggest challenges our members face today. Ensuring agricultural property is valued for its agricultural potential and not development is critical to the continued success of Ohio agriculture.
Through the Select Partner program, we became educated in farm insurance and weren't just selling policies. It became more and more clear why farmers need an advocate like Ohio Farm Bureau.
So many of the issues that OFBF and its members are advocating for are important to all Ohioans. I look at OFBF as an agricultural watchdog advocating for farmers and rural communities across Ohio.
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