PAST EVENTS
- Hosted the 2nd Annual RX Task Force Lunch and Learn October 2017
- On 4/20 the group presented to faculty and Junior & Senior Class at SSHS – 350 in attendance.
- Drug take-back events in September 2015 & March 2016 with Routt County Sheriff’s Office (collected a total 82 lbs of medication)
- Four-part Lunch & Learn Series March 2016 – 600 people attended
- Three-part evening learn series at The Chief – 60 people attended
- Chasing the Dragon film premier The Chief- 60 people attended
- Educational presentation to Manic Task Force Challenge participants – 150 people attended
- Presentation to Steamboat Mountain High School students & staff – 70 people attended
- Presentation at Routt County Board of Health Meeting – 10 people attended
- Presentation at Steamboat Restaurant Association meeting – 40 people attended
- Presentation at the Steamboat Ski Corp hiring staff and executives – 40 people attended
- Presentation to YVCF Women Who Wine – 10 people attended
The Mark McManus Foundation works to shift the cultural thinking on how we support mental and physical health. Our mission is to provide outreach, education and financial assistance for multi-modality and behavioral health treatments so that everyone can explore their own best path to a healthy life.
The fund was started by Mara McManus Rhodes, Co-Founder of The Rx Task Force after she lost her younger brother and only sibling to prescription drug addiction in 2014. In collaboration with The Yampa Valley Community Foundation, donations benefit programs for youth, parents, clinicians, coaches, mentors, and professionals. In Mark’s legacy, the hope is that no one will be in the dark about the power of addiction.
To donate to the Mark McManus Foundation by check:
Yampa Valley Community Foundation
348 Oak Street
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
This is a Donor Advised Fund of the Yampa Valley Community Foundation. Funds are being raised on behalf of rather than by the Foundation. Donations are irrevocable assets of the Foundation. Fund advisors make recommendations for where the funds will be distributed.
- Rhodes, who furthered local work on substance abuse, steps down from Community Health Partnership
- Speaker series focuses on community and family to tackle addiction
- Routt County groups tackle prescription drug addiction with success
- Emerald Mountain School hosts talk about prescription drugs
- Opioid use down 40 percent as part of the pilot program at Yampa Valley Medical Center
- Mara Rhodes named RX Task Force regional coordinator
- Feeling the Force
- Colorado hospitals launch ambitious program to reduce opioid addiction
- Steamboat briefs: Local groups set to present Manic Task Force Challenge
- An Interview with Mara
- Our View: Join the community conversation
- Rx Task Force Founder Shares Her Experience With The Student Body
- Doctor addresses opiate abuse, heroin
- Rx Task Force to headline Coffee and a Newspaper April 6
- Third Lunch & Learn focuses on mental illness, the brain, and teens
- Law enforcement explores new program to fight opioid addiction
- Four-part Lunch & Learn series on opiate abuse begins Wednesday
- Rx Task Force to host new series of forums on opioid abuse
- Rx Task Force gains momentum through Lunch & Learn series
- Yampa Valley Medical Center joining pilot program to reduce opioid use in emergency rooms
- Breaking the silence: Steamboat Springs is not immune to national health crisis