Dallas County Drug Free Communities Director Jerria Martin spent the last month in Guam instituting a new Hope Dealers program there like the one she founded in Dallas County in 2016.
The Selma native and Selma High graduate worked with Guam-based Transforming Ourselves through Healing Growth & Enrichment, or TOHGE, to start a Hope Dealers program with teens there and grow their substance abuse prevention program.
Martin was featured in a story by The Guam Daily Post about her visit to classes at schools in Okkodo, a city in the US territory of Guam as part of the expansion of her successful Hope Dealers program in Selma. Today the program has 150 Hope Dealers or teens from schools throughout the county who host drug-free pep rallies, make drug-free music videos and post drug-free cooking shows with how to make “mocktails.” The agency also partners within the local business community.
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