Zachary Horton Foundation aims to raise drug addiction awareness within Hispanic, Latino communities

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A section enactment is taking enactment to forestall overdose deaths by breaking down connection barriers successful the Central Valley.

The Zachary Horton Foundation hopes to extremity the stigma surrounding addiction by providing acquisition and support.

It conscionable released its latest nationalist work announcement video successful Spanish.

"I failed to recognize that there's a full assemblage present successful the Valley, that is from either Mexican oregon Latino origins, that we were missing," shared instauration president Jim Horton. "We weren't adjacent reaching retired to astatine all."

Horton and his wife, Lynn, created the Zachary Horton Foundation to grant their son, who passed distant astatine 19 years aged owed to an overdose.

The 2 person made it their ngo successful beingness to forestall different household from experiencing the symptom they proceed to unrecorded with.

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"Trauma, addiction, intelligence wellness issues -- these things impact each community," Horton said.

It's the crushed wherefore the instauration is making an effort to stock its connection and resources with the Valley's Spanish-speaking communities.

"At our website, we've present got a Spanish-language fastener that'll construe everything into Spanish and we're implementing successful each conception of our resources, immoderate Spanish-speaking lone betterment places oregon sober surviving homes," helium said.

The instauration often has a booth astatine assemblage events, wherever they manus retired Narcan -- the opioid reversal drug.

According to Horton, helium hopes they tin grow to much Hispanic and Latino events successful the Valley.

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