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Dr. Steve Taylor
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Jake Peterson
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Photo by Katie Turpen.
Brad Blount
During Monday's City Council meeting, Vestavia Hills High School graduate Brad Blount gave the invocation. Blount spoke at a recent Help the Hills forum about his struggle with drug addiction.
On Tuesday, April 7, Help the Hills will host a town hall meeting with Dr. Stephen Taylor, medical director of the National Basketball Association (NBA) player assistance program.
Parents will meet with Dr. Taylor and Judge Shanta Owens will moderate a session for teens with a panel of young adults, including Brad Blount, Wilson Barber, and a recent VHHS graduate Joe Peterson, who lost his brother, Jake, to a drug overdose in 2011.
For the past 19 years, Dr. Taylor has worked as a licensed child/adolescent and addiction psychiatrist. He is also certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine as a specialist in addiction medicine, and has focused his training on specialized care of adolescents and young adults with drug and alcohol abuse, addiction illnesses and general psychiatric disorders.
Help the Hills was formed in an effort to foster open dialogue with parents, educators and community leaders and hopes to provide information, tips, and strategies to help parents have conversations with their children. This event will the third town hall meeting.
The event will take place at 6 p.m. at Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church's Tyson Hall. For more, visit, leadershipvestaviahills.com.
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