4512-0205 Substance Abuse Grants

For grants and contracts with substance use programs to provide comprehensive prevention, intervention and recovery services; provided, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended to Baystate Health Eastern Region for a grant program to prevent and treat addiction to opioid and related substances; provided further, that not less than $10,000 shall be expended to support the Bartlett house at Housing Support, Inc.; provided further, that not less than $175,000 shall be expended to Self Esteem Boston for direct service and provider training programs; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for Office--Based Addiction/Opioid Treatment, a program of the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center, Inc. to include treatment of patients with co--occurring mental health disorders by a nurse practitioner; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for the purposes of the operation of Resources for Recovery Inc., formerly known as the Dennis Messing Memorial Foundation located in the Hyde Park section of the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to the city known as the town of Braintree for Braintree Community Partnership on Substance Use; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended for One Life at a Time, Inc., located in the city known as the town of Braintree, for the facilitation of access to sober living programs and job training services for people in recovery and associated operational costs; provided further, that not less than $2,000,000 shall be expended for RIZE Massachusetts Foundation, Inc. to assist in their work to end the opioid epidemic in the commonwealth; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended to Harbor Health Services, Inc. for a grant program to prevent and treat addiction to opioid and related substances; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for continued capital improvements to the Cambridge community center and for the expansion of their community--based behavioral health program; provided further, that not less than $15,000 shall be expended to Abington C.O.P.E.S. Inc. for substance use prevention and programming; provided further, that not less than $15,000 shall be expended to Holbrook Cares, Corp. for substance use prevention and recovery outreach programming; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended to Rockland Cares Incorporated for recovery support and awareness programming; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended to Walker, Inc. for continuation of behavioral health and positive parenting and caregiving services and resources to service and support incarcerated and post--release individuals with children, in conjunction with the sheriffs' offices in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, to appropriately promote necessary family bonding and child development that correlates with successful community reintegration and reduced recidivism; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended and divided equally to Grit & Grace Sober Living For Women in the city of Attleboro, Jeffrey's House in the city of Fitchburg, Evergreen House, Inc. in the town of Wareham and Gilly's House Inc. in the town of Wrentham for sober housing facility improvements and operational costs; provided further, that not less than $30,000 shall be expended to Community Against Substance Abuse, Inc. (CASA) in the city known as the town of Winthrop to support substance abuse programs; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to A Healthy Lynnfield for substance use programming including, but not limited to, prevention education; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended to Baystate Noble Hospital Corporation in the city of Westfield for a grant program to prevent and treat addiction to opioids and related substances; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to Power Forward, Inc. in the town of Marshfield for substance use recovery services; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended as a grant to the Southcoast Health New Beginnings Moms Do Care Program in the city of New Bedford to support mothers and infants impacted by perinatal substance exposure; provided further, that not less than $475,000 shall be expended for the RecoveryWorks program at Massachusetts General Hospital for building a community of people in addiction recovery, including those who are court involved or returning citizens, families, organizations and local resources, to enhance participants' long--term recovery and achieve meaningful employment by: (i) providing participants mentorship, career coaching, recovery and career oriented skills training groups and assistance with removing barriers to reenter the workforce throughout the 5--year duration of the program; and (ii) partnering with employers and organizations on education and anti--stigma efforts; provided further, that not less than $125,000 shall be expended to the city of Lynn for mental health and substance use disorder services; and provided further, that not less than $45,000 shall be expended in equal amounts to the Canton Alliance Against Substance Abuse in the town of Canton, the Sharon Substance Prevention and Resource Coalition in the town of Sharon and the Norton Opioid Prevention and Education Collaborative in the town of Norton