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Health Department seeks to expand recovery residences and embed outreach staff in shelters
Summary
The Department of Health described plans to expand residential treatment, recovery residences and recovery‑oriented shelters, seek $1.2M in new recovery housing funding and embed outreach and engagement workers and recovery coaches in shelter settings.
Rick Helderbrandt, Commissioner of the Department of Health, told the committee that housing is a public‑health priority for people with substance use disorder and outlined the department’s role in a continuum that includes residential treatment, recovery residences and recovery shelters.
Emily Truder (Health Department substance‑use program lead) provided capacity details: "we have 99 active high intensity…
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