Social Media Harms
Jun
4

Social Media Harms

Yountville Community Center, 6516 Washington St, Yountville, CA
6:00 pm

The Michael Leonardi Foundation welcomes Amy Neville with the Alexander Neville Foundation as our guest speaker on the topic of social media harms on youth and young adults.

Amy delves into the shift of the drug crisis, examining why it has become an "everyone problem" and how it's intricately linked to the lives of adolescents. Through a combination of shared real-life experience, data, and interactive discussions, participants will gain an understanding of the issue.

The event is free and RSVP requested so that we can manage seating: https://SocialMediaHarms.eventbrite.com

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Carrot Cake & Kindness Day
Aug
22

Carrot Cake & Kindness Day

In honor of Michael’s birthday, we are eating cake … carrot cake that is, and spreading kindness.  You can change someone’s day with a kind word or act. 

Get your carrot cake by visiting Sweetie Pies in downtown Napa for your carrot mini or cake, your local baker, or make your own and share! 

Post your carrot cake on social media with #carrotcakeandkindnessday and tag us @michaelleonardifoundation.

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MLF Music + Awareness Event
Aug
24

MLF Music + Awareness Event

DATE TO BE DETERMINED
Napa, CA
2 - 5pm

Come listen to great music and learn more about what you need to know about illicit fentanyl and help raise awareness. More info to come, please check back soon or check our social media accounts.

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Come Back Home Film Screening
Apr
4

Come Back Home Film Screening

Napa River Inn - Hatt Hall
500 Main Street, downtown Napa
6:00 pm

A half-hour film that delves into the lives of younger people who survived the loss of their loved ones to fentanyl. Like the previous film, Dead on Arrival, this film is a trek through the ever-growing illicit fentanyl crisis that is re-shaping American life, destroying families.

From the Alexander Neville Foundation, the O’Connell Family Foundation and filmmakers Dominic Tierno and Christine Wood.

Free admission. Q & A and discussion to follow film. English viewing with Spanish subtitles.

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Speaker Series:  Ben Westhoff Award-winning Journalist & Author of Fentanyl, Inc.
Feb
10

Speaker Series: Ben Westhoff Award-winning Journalist & Author of Fentanyl, Inc.

Yountville Community Center
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Event is free. Limited seats, please register.

Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative reporter whose books are taught around the country and have been translated around the world, including Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Created the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic, the bombshell first book about the fentanyl epidemic. He has advised officials at the top levels of government about the opioid crisis. Westhoff is currently directing a film about the opioid treatment drug naltrexone, called Antagonist, and his book Original Gangstas: Tupac, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube and the Birth of West Coast Rap is the definitive book about West Coast Hip-Hop. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and the Guardian, and been interviewed as an expert commentator on CNN, NPR, and CSPAN, and on full, dedicated episodes of Fresh Air and the Joe Rogan Experience. 

This speaking event will be held at the Yountville Community Center in Yountville, CA. A Q&A and discussion will follow.

Napa Bookmine will be on-site selling copies of Fentanyl, Inc., with 20% of sales proceeds to the Michael Leonardi Foundation.

The Napa Opioid Safety Coalition (NOSC) and ALDEA Children & Family services will be on-site with information on their services, along with Narcan training and distribution.

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Weekend Youth Raising Awareness with the Michael Leonardi Foundation w/New Diplomat & Slippery People
Jan
11

Weekend Youth Raising Awareness with the Michael Leonardi Foundation w/New Diplomat & Slippery People

Blue Note Napa
1030 Main Street, downtown Napa
Show 7:30 pm, doors open at 6pm
Tickets: $20 purchase here

We are thrilled to be partnering with Napa musicians Weekend Youth in raising awareness, along with New Diplomat & Slippery People.

Weekend Youth is an alternative pop-rock band from Napa, CA. They’ve shared the stage with One Republic, SirSly, and Imagine Dragons and sold out their debut headlining show at Blue Note Napa in March of this year. They’re currently in-studio working on a follow up to their debut EP “Vacation” released in March of 2020.

MLF will be at the show with important information on illicit fentanyl and the dangers. Help us raise awareness!

Learn more about the musicians:
Weekend Youth
New Diplomat
Slippery People

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Join Us in Making a Difference on GivingTuesday!
Nov
28

Join Us in Making a Difference on GivingTuesday!

GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. GivingTuesday is now an independent nonprofit and a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

Whether it’s making someone smile, helping a neighbor or stranger out, showing up for an issue or people we care about, or giving some of what we have to those who need our help, every act of generosity counts, and everyone has something to give.

This GivingTuesday, please consider a donation to the Michael Leonardi Foundation and help us raise illicit fentanyl awareness and help save lives: michaelleonardifoundation.org/donate

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Love Letters & Let's Get Loud
Sep
9

Love Letters & Let's Get Loud

Justin-Siena High School
4026 Maher St, Napa, CA 94558

Reception & Music at 6:30 pm
Performance at 8:00 pm
Ticket Price: $25
To purchase tickets: justin-siena.org/tickets

LOVE LETTERS
by A.R. Gurney

Starring Courtney R. Hall and April Stewart (of Comedy Central's South Park)
Directed by Wendy-Marie Martin
Produced by Kristen Clark

A one-night-only benefit for the Michael Leonardi Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising illicit fentanyl and fake prescription pill awareness to teenagers, young adults and the community. Learn more at www.michaelleonardifoundation.org.

Presented by Justin-Siena Theatre
Saturday, September 9, 2023
LOCATION: Justin-Siena High School Dining Hall

6:30 PM Let's Get Loud! pre-show reception and music featuring Noetic Pause and Julia Leonardi
8:00 PM Love Letters Performance

About Love Letters:

Sometimes it takes a lifetime to spell out love. Meet Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, two childhood friends who share a lifetime of correspondence, beginning with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards and ending in one last heartfelt goodbye. Join April Stewart and Courtney R. Hall for this funny and poignant portrait of love and friendship. An "exquisite jewel of a play" named "one of the four or five best American plays of the decade" by Time magazine, Love Letters is a profound theatrical exploration of the powerful, and sometimes painful, connection of love.

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Carrot Cake & Kindness Day
Aug
22

Carrot Cake & Kindness Day

In honor of Michael’s birthday, we are eating cake … carrot cake that is, and spreading kindness.  You can change someone’s day with a kind word or act. 

Get your carrot cake by visiting Sweetie Pies in downtown Napa for your carrot mini or cake, your local baker, or make your own and share! 

Post your carrot cake on social media with #carrotcakeandkindnessday and tag us @michaelleonardifoundation.

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National Illicit Fentanyl Prevention & Awareness Day
Aug
21

National Illicit Fentanyl Prevention & Awareness Day

National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day is established in remembrance of the loved ones who lost their lives due to illicit fentanyl poisoning and to acknowledge the devastation this drug has brought to hundreds of thousands of affected family members and friends. This coordinated day of response is for fentanyl awareness organizations and affected families to come together sharing their lived experiences as part of a whole group warning and informing our youth, the public and the unsuspecting. This day will be observed every year on August 21. Visit facingfentanylnow.org.

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National Night Out 2023 Calistoga
Aug
1

National Night Out 2023 Calistoga

5-8 PM
Pioneer Park
1308 Cedar Street, Calistoga, CA

National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes community partnerships and neighborhood comradery with the goal of creating safer and stronger neighborhoods, and is held every first Tuesday night in August. The Michael Leonardi Foundation will be at Pioneer Park with information on what you need to know about illicit fentanyl and the dangers. This is a free event.

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MLF Music + Awareness   Event
Jun
10

MLF Music + Awareness Event

SB Biergarten - Funk Zone
Santa Barbara, CA
$10 entry
2 - 5pm

Purchase tickets at the door or on Eventbrite. Purchased tickets through Eventbrite will be on a list upon entry: MLFMusicAwareness.eventbrite.com

Join us on Saturday, June 10th for our MLF Music + Awareness series at SB Biergarten in downtown Santa Barbara as we raise fentanyl awareness.

The Framers will be joining us along with Pretty Cheeky! Both are indie rock bands from Santa Barbara.

We look forward to seeing you there and sharing in this important day of raising awareness. Thank you to the SB Biergarten for your amazing venue! Come hear great music and learn more about what you need to know about illicit fentanyl and help raise awareness.

For more information on SB Biergarten and their fabulous food menu, click here.

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Napa Opioid Safety Coalition Community Town Hall
May
13

Napa Opioid Safety Coalition Community Town Hall

Join the Napa Opioid Safety Coalition (NOSC) and community partners for a community Town Hall on Saturday, May 13th. The event will be held in English from 10-11:30 am and in Spanish from 12:30-2 pm. Visit the many local organizations providing valuable resources from 11:30-12:30 in between sessions. 

This FREE in-person event will highlight the impact of the opioid epidemic in our community and provide practical prevention tools. Hear more about opioid addiction, illicit fentanyl, local data, and learn how to give the life-saving medication Narcan and how to have important conversations with loved ones suffering from this type of addiction. Register for free on Eventbrite, links below. 

Register for the English session, 10-11:30 am
https://tinyurl.com/513TownHallEnglish 

Register for the Spanish session, 12:30-2 pm
https://tinyurl.com/513TownHallSpanish

¡RESERVA LA FECHA! Únase a la Coalición de Seguridad de Opioides de Napa (NOSC) y socios comunitarios para una junta comunitaria gratuita el sábado 13 de mayo. El evento se llevará a cabo en inglés de 10 a 11:30 am y en español de 12:30 a 2 pm. Planee visitar las organizaciones locales que se presentan para brindar recursos valiosos de 11:30 a 12:30 entre sesiones. 

Este evento en persona destacará el impacto de la epidemia de opioides en nuestra comunidad y brindará herramientas prácticas de prevención. Escuche más sobre la adicción a los opioides, el fentanilo ilícito, los datos locales, la capacitación sobre el aerosol nasal de Narcan y cómo tener conversaciones importantes con sus seres queridos. Regístrate gratis en Eventbrite, enlaces a continuación. 

Regístrese para la sesión de inglés, 10-11:30 am 
https://tinyurl.com/513TownHallEnglish

Regístrese para la sesión de español, 12:30-2 pm 
https://tinyurl.com/513TownHallSpanish

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NEWS “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes”
Apr
29

NEWS “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes”

"Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" is Saturday, April 29th at Veterans Memorial Park in downtown Napa from 10 am to noon. Would you be willing to help get a team of friends together? Families are welcome. Registration is only $10 for individuals or $50 for a team/group. Groups can be as large as you want.

Community resources and organizations will be available with information including the Michael Leonardi Foundation.

Register at https://www.classy.org/.../walk-a-mile-in-her.../e468457.

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Napa Valley College Campus Event
Apr
26

Napa Valley College Campus Event

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Learn what you know about the dangers of illicit fentanyl and fake prescription pills. We will be on site at Napa Valley College with our table and important information in front of the library.

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VOICES Youth Programs - Basketball Game for Drug Awareness
Apr
19

VOICES Youth Programs - Basketball Game for Drug Awareness

VOICES Youth Programs Basketball Game for Drug Awareness
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Camille Creek, 2121 Imola Ave., Napa, CA

Come play basketball while bringing drug awareness to our community. There will be resources available on where to get support if you are struggling or know someone who is.

MLF will be there with information table. Please stop by and learn what you need to know about illicit fentanyl and fake prescription pills, and how to stay safe. For more information on VOICES Youth programs, please visit their website here.

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Napa County Public Health Fair
Apr
16

Napa County Public Health Fair

Napa County Public Health Fair - Sunday, April 16th
1-3pm
Fuller Park, downtown Napa

Napa County Public Health is closing out National Public Health Week by hosting a Public Health Fair free of cost for the community on Sunday, April 16th from 1-3 p.m. at Fuller Park in downtown Napa.  

This event includes fun, health-related, and wellness activities for the community. The Michael Leonardi Foundation will have an information table. Please stop by and learn what you need to know about illicit fentanyl and fake prescription pills, and how to stay safe.

For more information click here.

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