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Craven County approves $275,470 to start sobriety treatment and recovery teams program
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Craven County commissioners approved a $275,470 budget amendment to launch a START (Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams) pilot that pairs social workers with family mentors and contracted providers to accelerate treatment for parents with substance use disorders and children under age 5.
Craven County commissioners on Monday approved a $275,470 budget amendment to implement the START (Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams) program, a state-funded initiative intended to speed substance use disorder treatment for parents and support child safety.
Social Services presenter Jeff Merritt told the board the department won a competitive grant from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services that will fund START in Craven County. Merritt said the grant will cover most startup costs and that the county will contract with Easterseals for family mentors and service coordination. “If they opt out of START program, we're still mandated to provide child welfare services, so they just would go through the regular service, resource referral,” Merritt said during questions from commissioners.
The county will use an intensive, team-based model. Each START case is managed by a dyad: a county…
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