News About A Promise to Jordan
APTJ TO RECEIVE GRANT FROM CANTON COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND
To learn more about the grant award and recipients, click HERE to read their press release.
It's an honor to be recognized by Canton Community Health Fund and join its distinguished membership of community partners. All of us at A Promise To Jordan appreciate this funding award.
Granby Focus on Prevention: Opioids, Fentanyl and Risks To Our Youth - March 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yag871tTa2A
With Lisa Gray, Founder and President of A Promise to Jordan along with Justine Ginsberg, BSN, RN, Community Health Coordinator with the Farmington Valley Health District.
FDA Approves
Over-The-Counter Narcan - March 2023
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.
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Families File Lawsuit Against Snapchat - February 2023
Families of more than 50 overdose victims are accusing SnapChat of enabling drug dealers to sell these fake prescriptions to minors and young adults. See the story HERE.
Voices for Non-Opioid Choices - March 4, 2021
No one thinks the unthinkable can happen to them until it does. This is a message we hear often in every aspect of life, and a message Lisa at A Promise to Jordan has spent her life reiterating to her community any way she can. Read the full story HERE.
WTNH TV - May 19, 2021
It’s a disease that does not discriminate. “It can happen to anyone,” Lisa Gray said. On June 30, 2018, she and her husband lived every parent’s worst nightmare. “I lost my then 24-year-old firstborn son Jordan to an accidental heroin and fentanyl overdose. When he had his whole future in front of him.” Watch the video HERE.
WTNH TV- May 13, 2021
A statewide non-profit committed to raising awareness of substance use disorders and the stigma surrounding them and other mental health disorders is giving guests a sip of education at its first “Mocktail” Tasting Fundraiser on Thursday. Watch the video HERE.
Fox 61 - May 6, 2021
A Simsbury-based non-profit is teaming up with Hartford-area bars and restaurants to see who can make the best non-alcoholic cocktails and appetizers. The event is being put on by “A Promise to Jordan,” which was founded in memory of Jordan Arakelian, who struggled with addiction for nearly nine years. Watch the video HERE.
Valley Life - May 2021
A Promise to Jordan, the Simsbury-based nonprofit organization, is inviting the public to a Mocktail Tasting on May 13 at Real Arts Ways on 56 Arbor Street in Hartford, and is challenging restaurateurs and bar owners to show off their most creative non-alcoholic cocktails. Red the cover story HERE.
WTIC AM - April 6, 2021
1st Annual Mocktail Tasting Fundraiser Benefits Substance Use Awareness Guest: Lisa Gray, founder of A Promise to Jordan. “Mocktail” Tasting fundraiser on Thursday, May 13th at Real Art Ways in Hartford. Area restaurateurs and bar owners will showcase their best non-alcoholic beverages and compete for a chance at 1st place! Listen to the broadcast HERE.
John Lally and his son, Brendan, stand by a poster of Timothy Lally.
Hartford Courant - November 22, 2019
The Simsbury-based nonprofit A Promise to Jordan, created by Lisa Gray in the memory of her son Jordan Arakelian, hosted a substance abuse awareness event at Simsbury High School, on Nov. 18. Read the full story HERE.
Lisa Gray and her son, Jordan, in February 2018.
Hartford Courant - November 11, 2019
The nonprofit A Promise to Jordan is bringing the faces of drug addiction to Simsbury High School, on Nov. 18. Read the full story HERE.
Lisa Gray with her son, Jordan Arakelian.
Hartford Courant - May 24, 2019
The 14th time Jordan Arakelian overdosed would be the last time. He was 24 years old when he died last June of a heroin overdose. The first 13 times it happened, someone was there to save his life with Naloxone, or Narcan. Read the full story HERE.
Lisa Gray with her late son, Jordan Arakelian
The Valley Press - November 14, 2019
Simsbury resident, Jordan Arakelian, died from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl on June 30, 2018. He was just 24 years old. Read the full story HERE.
Lisa Gray holds a photo of her son, Jordan Arakelian.
Today Magazine - March 2020
The face of the nationwide opioid crisis is a paradox - incognito on the one hand, yet not hard to spot. Read the full story HERE.
Lisa Gray with her late son, Jordan.
The Valley Press - May 17, 2019
When Lisa Gray began raising her three sons in Simsbury in 2000, substance use disorder was the farthest thing from her mind. Read the full story HERE.