NORWICH – The SUNY Morrisville Human Services Institute will present a community forum on the opioid crisis followed by Narcan training, both of which are free and open to the public, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday on the Norwich Campus.

"This may save someone else's life," said one of the organizers of the forum, SUNY Morrisville student and Human Services major, Gannon Rockwell. "Living in a small community we tend to feel like we are sheltered from the opioid epidemic; the reality is that we aren't."

The forum will take place in the community room, #132A and B of Follett Hall on the SUNY Morrisville Norwich Campus. Light refreshments will be served at 1 p.m., before the student organizers of the forum present statistics and introduce six panelists who will be speaking during the forum.

The community forum is being organized by four students: Rockwell, SUNY Morrisville Nursing major Mariah Nguyen, and Oxford High School and SUNY Morrisville students Genevieve Gorman and Allison Paster.

A panel of six speakers will address the opioid crisis from a variety of perspectives, including medical and psychological expertise, therapy for active and recovering addicts, as well as from the perspective of parents affected by the crisis. Each panelist will speak for 15 minutes, Gorman said, and a Q&A session facilitated by the students will follow.