Contributed PARTNERSHIP — Lindsay Dowdle, marketing manager at WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital, and Luke Nelson, principal of the Harrison Career Center, discuss the Staying Clean Club collaboration.

CADIZ — WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital has partnered with the Harrison Career Center to provide free random drug screenings to the Staying Clean Club.

The Staying Clean Club is a student organization that creates awareness and rewards for students who stay away from drugs. These reward incentives include free lunches, T-shirts and a field trip at the end of the school year. Members of the Staying Clean Club also benefit from sharing a common motive and a sense of belonging to a group in which they can enjoy the fellowship of their peers.

“In order to be a member of the club, students sign up and are randomly drug tested several times during the school year,” said Luke Nelson, principal at the Harrison Career Center. “WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital has been gracious enough to sponsor and supply the testing kits and personnel to administer the proper drug screenings for our students.”

“Harrison Community Hospital is happy to support the efforts of the Staying Clean Club,” said David Phillips, president and CEO. “This organization provides students with the opportunity to participate in an educational and rewarding organization.”

Nelson said Harrison Career Center is proud and appreciative of the partnership it has formed the hospital to promote and support the initiatives of its Staying Clean Club.

“Everyone that I have worked with at the hospital has been extremely generous and helpful with our goal and shared vision to keep students safe,” he said. “It has been encouraging and rewarding to partner with a local business to promote positive change in our area.”