Event Name: Race for Recovery
Venue: East Parkway Pavilion in Overton Park
Venue address: 389 E. Parkway N.
Memphis, Tennessee
38104
USA
Event Start: 05/04/2019 – 10:00am
Event End: 05/04/2019 – 12:00pm
Event Website: https://www.racesonline.com/events/race-for-recovery
Expected number of attendees: 250
Requested number of characters: 30
Requested character types:
Secure changing/staging area: No
Comments: Race for Recovery is a 5K walk/run fundraiser. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness about the impact drug addiction is having on the Shelby County community. Drug addicts are treated like criminals instead of being offered treatment. Judge Dwyer insisted on helping these individuals. Therefore, he created Shelby County Drug Court.
Shelby CountyDrug Court has been intervening on the lives and families of the arrested due to alcohol and drug problems. Drug Court reduces drug use, reduces crime, saves money, restores lives, and saves children, and reunites families.
All proceeds from the 5K, will go directly to offer services to participants in the Drug Court program. Services that help our participants become productive tax-paying members of Shelby County. These participants in turn will strengthen our community.
Referred by: Terry and Leslie Ryan