The Recovery Fest will take place from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7 at the foundation’s Lakeside location at 2300 Dumbarton Road. The event will feature speakers, live music, food trucks, rapid revive training, free Narcan, and vendors. Then on Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Mobilize Recovery
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The McShin Foundation, a Henrico-based recovery community organization, was among eight Virginia-based nonprofits and 361 nationwide that earned donations from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving program, whose grants were announced Tuesday morning. McShin will receive $2 million from the program that it will use to help its efforts to
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Editor's note: This is the first of two articles exploring addiction and recovery. Laura Townsend began taking her father’s prescription Percocet because it made her feel like a better mom and more like the person she always wanted to be. “I thought, ‘Oh, ok. This is it,
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Fatal overdose rates remain high in Virginia, even as the state begins to spread opioid settlement money to state and local agencies to help tackle the epidemic. Death from drug overdoses, opioids and fentanyl in particular, has remained the dominant method of unnatural death in Virginia since 2013, according to
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John Shinholser, who in 2004 co-founded The McShin Foundation, a non-profit recovery organization, announced recently that he will retire from the organization Dec. 31. On July 19, 2004, Shinholser and Carol McDaid founded the organization, which takes its name from a combination of portions of their last names. The duo
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