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PADDD joins the We Are Carroll podcast

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Today, in honor of PTSD Awareness Month, we speak with Deborah Yohn, founder of PADDD (Positive Alternatives to Dangerous and Destructive Decisions.

Today, in honor of PTSD Awareness Month, we speak with Deborah Yohn, founder of PADDD: Positive Alternatives to Dangerous and Destructive Decisions. PADDD’s mission is to provide the best ‘Impaired and Reckless Driving Prevention’ classes in the State of Maryland and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic communities, with the sole intent of preventing traumatic injury and death due to motor vehicle crashes. Remember, you can learn more about the Community Foundation of Carroll County on our website: www.wearecarroll.org. Stay with us.

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