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Boyle County health department wins $166,000 grant to create recovery community center, funds homeless coordinator
Summary
The Boyle County Health Department received a $166,000 opioid-related grant to create a recovery community center and fund a homeless-coordination position; officials said the funding will consolidate services, but implementation will take months.
The Boyle County Health Department announced a $166,000 grant on Oct. 28 that will fund a recovery community center (RCC) to centralize harm-reduction and recovery services, the department told the Boyle County Fiscal Court.
The departmentoutlined that the RCC will allow harm-reduction staff to co-locate with a newly funded homeless-coordination position so residents can access multiple services in a single place rather than being referred to multiple buildings. "We were one of three counties that got it," Brent Blevins, who presented the item, said of the…
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