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Beloved Whitestone resident
remembered for helping
others overcome addiction
(From l. to r.) Daniel Copersino with his mother Laura and sister, Lily.
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
A beloved Whitestone
resident will be honored and
remembered on Saturday at
a special fundraising event
in support of continuing his
mission to help others overcome
substance abuse.
The Daniel Copersino
Foundation will be hosting
a fundraising event on
April 13 at the Spartan Obstacle
Race in CitiField at
9 a.m. followed by a picnic
at Harvey Park, located at
20th Avenue and Whitestone
Expressway, from 1 to 4
p.m. in honor of Copersino,
who celebrated his third
anniversary of sobriety
before he passed away in
December 2018 at the age
of 27 from an undetected
heart condition.
Established in January
2019, The Daniel Copersino
Foundation is a
nonprofit organization raising
funds in support of substance
abuse and addiction
based charities providing
grants to those in need of
treatment.
“All that Daniel wanted
to do was help people,” said
Laura Copersino, Daniel’s
mother. “With everyone
helping like this we can
magnify his efforts and help
a lot of people.”
In his late teens, Copersino
began experimenting
with drugs, which eventually
led to an addiction to
heroin. For years thereafter,
he was in and out of programs
and detox facilities
seeking help.
While staying at a detox
facility in Jamaica,
Copersino relocated to an
upstate facility called St.
Christopher’s Inn in 2014 for
three months. The program
was a stepping stone for
Copersino providing support,
encouragement, and
finding the inner strength
to address the disease
of addiction.
After completing his care
upstate, Copersino felt that
returning to Whitestone
was not the best move and
as a result, he relocated to
a residential facility in Delray
Beach, Florida. for three
years, where he formed relationships
both inside and
outside of the treatment
community.
“He came back home in
June 2017 sober and doing
very well,” said Copersino.
“While he was down there
he helped a lot of people get
their lives back on track. It
Photo courtesy of Laura Copersino
was his personal mission to
see people get into recovery
from the disease of addiction.
That was his big thing.
He would speak at meetings
at facilities; he would travel
to speak to help people.
When he had passed it was
extremely unexpected.”
After his passing, Copersino’s
close friends and
family founded the organization
to continue Daniel’s
work of helping to guide others
struggling with addiction
on the path to living a
clean, sober life.
Copersino is looking forward
to continuing the event
every year in honor of Daniel,
who loved participating
in Spartan Race events.
With a dedicated passion
for sports and fitness,
Copersino began running
Spartan Races throughout
the Northeast. His aspiration
to become a personal
trainer led him to begin
the enrollment process for
certification courses.
“The Spartan Race is
an obstacle course and my
son was an obstacle course
racer,” said Copersino. “We
have 73 friends and family
in this race. We’re all doing
it and the racers alone will
be raising about $2,000.
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