News & Podcasts

AUGUST 2022

ON AUGUST 21ST, 2022 we held the 1st National Fentanyl Prevention & Awareness Day Event in Nashville.

We had mothers and family members speak about losing their children/loved ones to illicit fentanyl poisoning.

Also Nashville Metro Councilwomen Gloria Hausser and Erin Evans spoke, as well as Sgt. Hotz from the Metro Police Dept, Dr. Stephen Loyd and Assistant District Attorney Mindy Vinecore.

Click here to see FB Live recordings on our Facebook page

JULY 2022

Our own Tanja Jacobs gave a presentation in front of the Nashville Metro Council on 7/26/22 to bring awareness to the Nashville Davidson County Council members to educate them on the illicit fentanyl crisis and the urgency to bring awareness to their districts. Nashville Metro Council Meeting – Bringing Awareness to Council Members 

And on 7/27/22 she appeared on Nashville’s NewsChannel 5 Open Line Show, live, as one of four panel members, to discuss the illicit fentanyl crisis in TN and nationwide and to educate the Nashville public. NewsChannel5 Open Line 072722

May 2022

Romello’s Story is featured in the first few minutes of this ABC News Live Series Watch on HULU – POISONED: America’s Fentanyl Crisis – A MUST WATCH FOR ILLICIT FENTANYL EDUCATION.

January 2022

21 JANUARY – Join Big Joe Dubin for Mornings on Main Street at 7am: Friday, Jan. 21

19 JANUARY – Mom on a mission after son’s fentanyl death

September 2021: Dead on Arrival – a MUST WATCH video https://anfhelp.org/

July 2021: Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Up 30% in 2020

Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 93,331 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 2020, an increase of 29.4% from the 72,151 deaths predicted in 2019. Read the article here.

June 2021

23 JUNE – Interview with NewsChannel5 – Mother pushes for more prosecutions of drug-induced homicide https://www.newschannel5.com/news/mother-pushes-for-more-drug-induced-homicide-prosecutions-to-end-fentanyl-poisoning-crisis

We added a new fund to help us keep the foundation alive. You wouldn’t believe the maintenance costs… 🙂 And while you’re at it, check out our cool new flyer!

May 2021

23 MAY: Come join us at our first Community Awareness Event on 5 JUNE in Antioch, TN.

6 MAY: It’s OFFICIAL – WE ARE OFFICIALLY A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION!!!!!!!!

A NEW AWARENESS FUND IS AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DONATIONS!!!

Help us raise money to pay for supplies for community awareness to include print flyers, signs, and t-shirts, as well as pay for little give aways such as pens and notebooks with featured awareness slogans. Check it out right here on our Donation Campaign PageDonation Campaigns.

March 2021

Check out Tanja giving an interview on WKRN on March 19th: Finding purpose in grief.
So incredibly proud of her!

 

Partnerships

The Romello A. Marchman Foundation realizes that it needs help with bringing awareness to the Fentanyl Epidemic in Tennessee.

So, we have made connections in the Nashville Health Dept. to stay informed on their efforts and have also spoken to representatives that work at the Nashville organization “Street-Works” to find out what their organization does for the community.

We are also trying to partner-up with “The Prevention Alliance of TN” to combine our efforts to bring awareness through out Tennessee. We were invited to join their next meeting on March 25^th to find out about their efforts and to let them know about ours. Hopefully we can find a way to combine our efforts really soon.

We will be reaching out to several more Tennessee organizations to partner up with them as well, to combine our efforts. We are also working our connections, to partner up with former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, whose son died of fentanyl poisoning, as well as Christian Singer TobyMac whose son also died of fentanyl poisoning and Country Singer Luke Bryan to help us with our efforts.

We will keep you updated hereon all of the above, so please check back with us!

Thank you for your interest in our Foundation!