by LaMara HunterKelly | Apr 7, 2015 | In The News
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 Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community. “We’re really not sure how we’d survive it.”
Advocates for Recovery Learning Communities around the state rallied at the Statehouse on Wednesday against a provision in Baker’s proposed fiscal year 2016 budget that would cut $1.7 million, or half of the total state funding………
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by LaMara HunterKelly | Apr 1, 2015 | In The News
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 2013, according to Assistant Nurse Manager Linda Jablonski.
In 2013, of the 460 babies delivered on the maternity ward, 22 required close observation for possible drug exposure in the womb and seven needed treatment in the form of morphine to ease withdrawal, according to Jablonski.
Substance abuse is a problem affecting many in Franklin County — including its new mothers. Continue Reading Article at The Recorder
