For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 19, 2017
County Executive Isiah Leggett will be joined by Montgomery County Public Schools Associate Superintendent Dr. Jonathan T. Brice; Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral Health and Crisis Services’ Chief Raymond Crowel; and community nonprofit organizations to launch a public awareness campaign aimed at preventing suicide and drug abuse in adolescents. The BTheOne campaign includes a new website, advertising at bus shelters and movie theaters, and posters and flyers that will be distributed throughout the community. Leggett will be joined by Susan Rosenstock, a parent whose teenage son died from suicide, and August Balderson, a 19-year-old Gaithersburg resident currently in recovery from substance abuse.