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VAMHAR executive director urges lawmakers to fund community recovery, warns carceral approach will cost more
Summary
The newly appointed executive director of the Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery described the group's long history supporting recovery infrastructure, outlined grants and workforce training, and urged lawmakers to prioritize community and prevention over incarceration-focused responses.
Daniel (last name not specified), who said he became executive director of the Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery (VAMHAR) two months earlier, told the House Healthcare Committee that recovery and mental-health services are tightly connected and that community-based investments prevent costly outcomes.
"We are not mental health and we are not addiction recovery. We're a mental health and addiction recovery," he said, arguing the issues are inseparable and require integrated responses rather than…
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