Jessie Greenblatt calls her hometown of Hendersonville, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, “a very quaint little town.” But, oh, how she’s seen it suffer.

A woman Greenblatt went to high school with hosts a Facebook page that serves as a memorial to people roughly in the same age group who have died. Greenblatt, who’s 33 and has asked to be identified by her fiancé’s last name, says, “I can scroll through it, and I’ll be, ‘They overdosed. They overdosed…’”

She recognizes how close she’s come to being numbered in that litany.

Years later, Greenblatt was connected with  Project CARA — Care that Advocates Respect/Resilience/Recovery for All — an Asheville, North Carolina-based program that supports pregnant and parenting people with substance use disorders. Within the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s obstetrics and gynecology department, Project CARA offers medical, substance use, and behavioral health care and other support services in one place.

Full story: ‘Life-changing support’: Program for substance use disorder through pregnancy and beyond (bpr.org)