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Worcester nonprofit Choices outlines youth behavioral‑health services and use of Uxbridge opioid‑abatement match
Summary
Choices founder Billy Beers told the Uxbridge Board of Health that a new partial‑hospitalization pathway in partnership with UMass is rapidly filling and that Choices used a $150,000 RISE match to leverage opioid‑abatement funds for adolescent services in the Blackstone Valley.
The Uxbridge Board of Health on Aug. 20 heard from Billy Beers, founder of Worcester‑based nonprofit Choices, about an expanding program the organization says is designed to treat adolescents with substance‑use and co‑occurring mental‑health needs.
Beers described a stepped continuum that begins with partial hospitalization (PHP), moves to intensive outpatient (IOP) treatment and adds in‑home behavior services, after‑school peer supports and educational alternatives including a recovery high‑school option. “Our partial hospitalization program right now has a max of 14 kids,” Beers…
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