Category: Chemical health
Celebrate National Prevention Week With Us by Honoring Our Champions!
May 13, 2025
Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) is celebrating National Prevention Week (May 11-17) by recognizing the efforts of local prevention champions. The Rice County Chemical and Mental Health Coalition recently presented 2025 Prevention Champion awards to David Aase, principal broker and founder of Revival Commercial Real Estate; Gabbie Carlander, Community School Coordinator at Faribault High School; Daryl […]
Naloxone kits, training offered free by Rice County partners
April 8, 2025
By Colton Kemp for the Northfield News Northfielder Nikita Geissler hopes to soon be promoted to house manager at A Way Out Sober Living in Northfield. There was a significant skill he was lacking experience with however — administering naloxone. Naloxone, often referred to as the brand name “Narcan,” is what’s called an opioid antagonist, […]
HCI: Safe, eco-friendly disposal of vape devices promoted
By Ashley Gardner as a Guest Columnist for the Northfield News Students involved in the RAVE (Reduction and Awareness of Vaping and E-cigarette use) Initiative have launched a campaign to raise awareness in Rice County of how to properly dispose of vape devices. The students organized a vape disposal take-back last month at the Community […]
2019 Rice County Prevention Champions Honored
November 18, 2019
by Kathy Sandberg What do you call someone who has helped provide support for a healthier life in our community by reducing risk factors for alcohol and drug abuse, supporting recovery and building assets for our youth and other community members? The Rice County Chemical and Mental Health Coalition calls them Prevention Champions. The Coalition is pleased […]

The Rice County Chemical Health Coalition needs your help to find and recognize PREVENTION CHAMPIONS in our community.
September 1, 2016
A Prevention Champion is someone who has helped provide support for a healthier life for young people in our community – someone who helps reduce risk factors for alcohol and drug abuse, someone who supports recovery, or someone who builds assets for our youth and other community members. They can be our friends, our neighbors, […]
Charles Reznikoff, M.D. is May Making A Difference Recipient
May 26, 2009
Charles Reznikoff, M.D. is the May recipient of the Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) Making a Difference award. The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Dr. Reznikoff is an Addiction Medicine Specialist at Northfield Hospital. He began seeing patients with opiate addiction in Northfield last […]
Two full-time positions working with Northfield youth for 2009-10 school year
May 14, 2009
We are pleased to announce that there are two exciting full-time position openings working with Northfield youth for the 2009-10 school year. These AmeriCorps Promise Fellow positions are made possible through a collaboration with the Minnesota Alliance With Youth. One of the positions works with youth at the Northfield High School and one works with […]