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Volunteers of America seeks local support to launch Family Recovery Court in Boyle County
Summary
Volunteers of America MidStates asked Boyle County for local funding and partnership to establish a Family Recovery Court, estimating about $250,000 per year to staff the program that helps parents with substantiated CPS cases remain with children through treatment and wraparound supports.
Jennifer Hancock, president and CEO of Volunteers of America MidStates, told the Boyle County Fiscal Court on March 10 that the Family Recovery Court model focuses on keeping families together while treating substance use disorder.
"This is a program that kept families together and kids out of foster care," Hancock said, citing third-party evaluation by the University of Louisville and local replication in counties across Kentucky. Megan Mine, director of Rural Addiction Recovery…
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