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Crow Wing County panel details how opioid grants fund testing, recovery housing and prevention activities
Summary
Community Corrections and Burlington Recovery Homes described how opioid-settlement grant dollars are being used to remove barriers to treatment (drug testing, transport, incentives) and support recovery housing; presenters cited program-level outcomes and asked commissioners to sustain support for both prevention and treatment.
Ann Pickar, a Community Corrections representative, told the county committee that REACT (Responsibility, Engagement, Accountability, Change, Trust) uses a $15,000 opioid-grant award to reduce financial barriers that can keep people from complying with probation drug testing. "We took $8,500 of that for drug testing, $1,500 strictly to ETG [alcohol testing], $2,300 into gas cards and $100 for bus tokens," Pickar said, noting partner vendors who provide vouchers and the program process of returning funds to the grant.
Sheila Haver Camp and colleagues from Burlington Recovery Homes presented the recovery-housing model they operate in Brainerd and other…
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