Two of our own were asked to speak at The Carter Center.

On September 23, JJ Durrough and Katie O’Neal represented Coweta FORCE and F.O.R. Troup at the 2026 FORE All-Grantee Meeting. FORE is the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts. Every year it brings together the organizations it funds from across the country to compare notes and sharpen the work. JJ sat on the “Welcome to Georgia” panel with Brian Kite of the Georgia Council for Recovery , Rob Bohler of Georgia Southern University , and Wendy Tiegreen of Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities , and talked about what we’re building in Newnan and LaGrange. Katie presented on our PEPA program and what peer support is doing inside juvenile dependency court. FORE was the first funder to say yes to PEPA. It exists because they believed in it early. The Georgia Recovers bus stopped by too, so people from all over the country got to sign it. Being in that room means the work here matters past Coweta County. Thank you, FORE, for the invitation and for betting on us. #CowetaFORCE #FORTroup #CowetaRecovers #GARecovers #RecoveryIsPossible #RecoveryCommunity #peersupport #communitiesrecover #RecoveryisReal