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Staff ReportNews tips: [email 160;protected] RMH Community Health and Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center are partnering to offer substance abuse prevention training to Hispanic men and women to serve as resources to their communities as lay health promoters.The training event will take place from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 6 at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church, 1552 S. High St., Harrisonburg. At the event, nearly 30 Hispanic men and women will receive training to serve as a resource in preventing drug and alcohol abuse, which often goes hand-in-hand with mental healt
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