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PITTSBURGH, PA (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - The FBI Pittsburgh Field Office has awarded the 2019 Director’s Community Leadership Award to the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation.
The award is typically given to organizations and individuals that go above and beyond to help reduce and prevent crime and violence in a community.
The Penguins Foundation was recognized for its efforts in helping with a program in collaboration with FBI Pittsburgh.
The initiative, Heroin Outreach Prevention and Education, was created to help teach area high school students about opioids, stimulants, and depressants.
The drug abuse prevention program also helped the students learn the correct usage of those drugs and how to implement intervention skills.
“The Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation has done extraordinary work in the community to help educate our youth on the dangers of opioids,” said FBI Pittsburgh Special Agent in Charge Michael Christman.
“The Heroin Outreach Prevention and Education or HOPE program teaches students to think differently. The work students put into their videos allows them to teach and inform their peers about the dangers associated with this epidemic. Through our partnership with the Penguins Foundation on this important program, we have the ability to reach more people and work together to stop this dangerous epidemic.”
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