Mother Jones – The newly renovated convention center was lined with booths offering flyers and merchandise; the upstairs conference rooms were hosting a series of information sessions about housing, education, and health care services, and a couple of bouncy castles had been set up as part of the provided child care.
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The daylong event called Res-Con, held on a sunny Saturday in April, was meant as a community resource fair, aimed at connecting residents with vital services. But the event was mostly empty. The front door traffic never amounted to much more than a trickle, and few of the upstairs talks had more than a handful of people in attendance.
Among those wandering the convention floor was 67-year-old Cece Brown, who over the last decade has become one of the state’s well-known proponents for addiction treatment and recovery services following the death of her 27-year-old son, Ryan.
