Students at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) handcrafted Valentines with messages of love and encouragement for patients at Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health.
TCNJ’s Collegiate Recovery Program hosted a table in the TCNJ commons on Valentine’s Day and invited students to make construction paper cards for patients. Eric Van Eck (above, left), recovery and prevention coordinator at TCNJ, delivered 125 cards that afternoon to Yuko Martin (above, right), director of allied clinical therapies at Princeton House.
The card initiative was a service project called “Share The Love.” Van Eck works with student organizations and individuals at TCNJ to support students who are in substance use recovery. This project extended out into the community to support patients at Princeton House, where many of the inpatients are dealing with substance use disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use issues. The cards were distributed to patients at the Princeton House inpatient campus in Princeton, N.J.