The book encourages young people to be
drug-free by telling the story of how a dog's best friend was needlessly
lost. read more
October 31, 2008
By Rick Green The Hartfort Courant
Teen Drug Use: A Deadly Conspiracy Of Silence
A dozen years go by and Ginger Katz keeps repeating her unbearable story. All over Connecticut, she tells parents, students and anyone else who will listen about finding her 20-year-old son dead in his bed one morning in 1996. The boy with a bright smile and a dog named Sunny overdosed early on a September day. Ian was an addict, a young man who discovered heroin at the University of Hartford. Click here to read more.
October 29, 2008
By VANESSA DE LA TORRE The Hartford Courant
West Hartford Students Urged To Avoid Drugs, Alcohol
WEST HARTFORD -- A mother who lost her 20-year-old son to heroin addiction asked Hall High School students on Tuesday not to inflict the same pain on their families. "Part of addiction is hiding and deceiving," Ginger Katz said. Her son, Ian, tried cocaine as a freshman at the University of Hartford, then went to snorting heroin five times a day in his sophomore year, while still managing to make honors. Click here
to read more.
August 20, 2008
By Joan Gaylord Hour Staff Writer
"FOUNDATION SEEKS TOP CURB TEEN DRUG USE"
The Courage to Speak Foundation will conduct a facilitator training program beginning the first week in October. The foundation seeks to curb teen drug use by empowering parents to develop lines of communication with their teenagers. Currently, 22 trained facilitators in four states including Connecticut, conduct the foundation's signature course, Courageous Parenting 101T. Click here to read more.
SPECIAL REPORT ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK
Interview with Ginger Katz, Author of Sunny's Story on News Channel 12
June 20, 2008
Norwalk Citizen~News
By Ginger Katz Founder & CEO of The Courage to Speak Foundation and author of Sunny's Story
Group gets federal grant to spread 'Sunny's Story'
NORWALK - The Courage to Speak Foundation started out with a simple mission - to spread the word about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse.
The small organization, founded in 1996 by Norwalk resident Ginger Katz and her husband, Larry, after their 20-year-old son, Ian, died of a heroin overdose, is growing, and recently received its largest grant yet - $446,500 from the U.S. Department of Justice. Click here to read more.
March 28, 2008
By Jill Bodach
Foundation gets big bucks to speak out
The Courage to Speak Foundation received a $446,500 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to expand its substance abuse prevention and education programs in Fairfield County schools and other Connecticut communities.
Click here to read more.
March 28, 2008
The Norwalk Citizen News
By David Hennessey
Students Show Courage Speaking Against Drug Abuse
Local fourth and seventh graders spoke out adamantly against substance abuse Monday night at the fourth annual "Courage to Speak: Empowering Youth to be Drug-Free Family Night" at West Rocks Middle School. Click here to read more.
Group, Lawyers Tackle Teen Drug Abuse Greg told legislators and advocates Wednesday, his casual use of a dose here and there at
school or at parties quickly turned into raids on his friends' medicine cabinets
and an increasing reliance on the numbing effects of his favorite drug of
choice, OxyContin, by the time he was 17... click here to read more.
