Five entities in Worcester including UMass Medical School and the Family Health Center of Worcester have received a share of nearly $9 million in state funding announced Thursday to help people access coronavirus vaccines in hard-hit communities.
Those two recipients were joined by Worcester counterparts AIDS Project Worcester, Centro and Seven Hills Behavioral Health among roughly two dozen such groups statewide that are being relied upon to help increase awareness and access to vaccines in 20 of the hardest-hit Massachusetts communities, including Fitchburg, Framingham, Leominster and Worcester.
Each organization will use its share of the funding to provide guidance about vaccine eligibility, assistance in registering online and translation services, among others. In some cases, the organizations will directly administer vaccinations to groups not available through other outreach efforts.
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For many individuals with substance use disorders, finding accurate information about how or where to seek treatment poses an enormous challenge. A new online toolkit developed by Rize Massachusetts aims to eliminate those barriers.
The toolkit, which Rize unveiled April 8 alongside Attorney General Maura Healey, compiles a wide range of resources on topics including treatment pathways, milestones for the recovery process, and protected rights for people in recovery, all connected on a single platform. All of this information exists somewhere, but in about 800 different places and often lost in pages upon pages of lots of jargon and medical jargon, said Kelly Danckert, a training associate with Health Resources in Action.
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Addiction treatment specialists are asking for gamblers’ two cents as they try to get a handle on how big an issue problem gambling is across Illinois.
State-contracted researchers on Wednesday pushed an online survey targeting residents who regularly lay wagers on anything from bingo and lottery games to slot machines and sports betting apps legally or otherwise, including underground dogfighting and cockfighting.
The anonymous survey is part of a statewide assessment of gambling addiction being conducted through the Illinois Department of Human Services, which aims to connect problem gamblers with counselors.
Nationally, an estimated 3% of the population deal with gambling problems, but it’s hard to say if that applies in Illinois because the issue hasn’t been studied at the state level in more than 20 years.
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