VIDEO – IN THEIR NAMES –
Nov. 21, 2025 – When DaVonne Garner walks through her newly-opened crisis recovery center, she feels the presence of her identical twin nephews Taj and Najee. After graduation they hit both fell into opioid addiction and mental health struggles. Taj died at 21 and Najee passed just two years later at 23. “They were loved, they were nurtured and still they found themselves in really precarious situations,” Garner said.
She went down a path to find evidence-based treatment that could save people just like her nephews.
That path led to her opening the Taj and Najee Callender Crisis Receiving Center on Nov. 15 located at 1201 Old Francis Road in Glen Alen.
“When Najee passed away, instead of us separating, it brought us [her family] closer together. And so we talk about the projects, the mission, we talk about not wanting the world to forget our boys,” she said.
