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Aiken Center asks North Augusta to fund a recovery coach with opioid settlement funds
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Margaret Key, executive with the Aiken Center, asked the North Augusta City Council on Aug. 11 to support a $77,000 application to place a certified peer support specialist dedicated to North Augusta families.
Margaret Key, executive with the Aiken Center, asked the North Augusta City Council on Aug. 11 to support a modest, targeted use of opioid‑settlement funds to place a certified peer support specialist dedicated to North Augusta families.
"Our proposal this evening for you to consider is a package, a program that would be about 77,000, a very modest amount," Key said. She described the recovery coach as a certified peer support specialist who would spend time in the Department of Social Services office and in the local mental‑health office, providing outreach, engagement and connections to treatment…
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