The Consortium celebrates 40 years!
See this great video on Mass Appeal.
Recovery Learning Communities fear proposed budgets cuts could close mental health resource centers
Advocates for adult mental health resource centers, funded by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health through an umbrella program, are asking supporters to contact legislators to prevent the program’s budget from being slashed in half in Gov. Charlie Baker’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year. The budget is currently before the House Ways & […]
Recovery Learning Communities head to State House to protest proposed budget cut
Supporters of the Recovery Learning Community are in Boston today to rally and advocate at the State House against a proposed 50 percent cut to the community’s $3.4 million budget. It has been funded since 2007, through the Department of Mental Health, and the reduction is part of Gov. Charlie Baker’s proposed state budgetfor the […]
Advocates for Western Mass. mental health program protest proposed budget cuts
BOSTON – The head of a network of peer-supported mental health centers in Western Massachusetts is warning that some of the centers are at risk of closing due to a budget cut proposed by Gov. Charlie Baker.
“If we got cut by 50 percent, we’d have to close centers,” said Sera Davidow, director of the Western […]
Supporting local mothers with substance abuse issues
Here is a great article from the Recorder by writer Kathleen McKiernan about the work we do at The Recover Project.
GREENFIELD — In the first half of 2014, some 7 percent of patients at The Birthplace at Baystate Franklin Medical Center were affected by substance abuse during their pregnancies — a 2 percent increase from […]