A new video series from Vermont producer and host, Rocket, features a visits with the team at Jenna鈥檚 Promise, a nonprofit founded in memory of Jenna Tatro, a victim of the ongoing opioid epidemic.
After losing their daughter, Greg and Dawn Tatro devoted themselves fully to fulfilling the promise of Jenna鈥檚 potential: that of helping others navigate and overcome opioid addiction. Jenna鈥檚 Promise, located in Johnson, provides therapy, housing, and 鈥� featured prominently in this story 鈥� work opportunities for the people they support. Through small businesses like Jenna鈥檚 Promise Roasting Co. and Jenna鈥檚 Promising Goods, this recovery-focused organization offers a supportive environment, skill training, and purpose, preserving Jenna鈥檚 legacy as an enduring beacon of hope, recovery, and resilience.
Filmmaker Rocket profiled Jenna's Promise in a series of eight video stories, called Small Vermont Businesses in Small Vermont Towns. New videos will be released weekly for eight weeks. To see other videos from the series, click here.
Rocket is a storyteller and the driving force behind and , a mobile application that empowers people to create custom recipes and navigate the kitchen. He's an alumnus of The Putney School '10 and Middlebury College '14, and recent graduate of the Vermont Law School.
Rocket's video series was supported in part by 开云体育's Made Here Fund, launched in 2022 to broaden and diversify Vermont storytelling. Rocket's project was one of 10 projects selected by a jury in and funded in 2023. To learn more about the Fund and released and upcoming projects, click here.
