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Opioid Task Force garners grant to promote racial equity in treatment
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Published: 2/11/2021 6:44:24 PM
GREENFIELD A two-year, $99,974 grant that the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region has received from the State Attorney General’s Office will support recovery programs and behavioral health services for people who are Black, Indigenous and People of Color.
The Opioid Task Force will use the grant to implement its “Cultural Humility in Post-Opioid Overdose Follow-Up Services Project” in Franklin County and the North Quabbin area. The program is part of the Community Opportunity, Network, Navigation, Exploration and Connection Team (CONNECT) Initiative, which received a $1 million grant in October of 2020 to launch. In November, the Opioid Task Force received an additional three-year grant for $600,000 to support its new 24/7 overdose rapid response team.
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Husband, drummer and co-writer John Merrigan said it emerged naturally from their lockdown online performances.
“When lockdown started we had the challenge of trying to keep the band together. We are all over the country – Scotland, London, Chichester. And so we thought let’s put out some tracks via video just to keep us busy musically and to keep in contact with the fans.
“And we did seven of those lockdown videos, and there was such a huge reaction. We have had close on a million views of those seven songs all together that we put out.
“And that prompted the idea ‘Why don’t we put out a lockdown EP?’ People want new songs. We decided to spend some time doing some of the songs that we had done during lockdown. We used some of the great technology that is available for sound systems right now, and we all recorded our individual parts and then brought them together with our producer Andrew who put it all together remotely.
Opioid Task Force holds third annual Sober Housing Summit
Modified: 12/11/2020 4:39:50 PM
As the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and North Quabbin’s third annual Sober Housing Summit came to an end Friday at noon, Sheriff Christopher Donelan suggested to Shawn Hayden that they take a ride up the Mohawk Trail sometime soon to look at old or abandoned motels that might be the answer to the lack of sober housing in Franklin County.
Hayden, chief operating officer of GAAMHA Inc., better known as Pathway House, a self-help group home in Gardner, said the task force made a lot of progress this year, but housing is still a huge barrier to people in recovery. He said sober housing is a regional problem that makes a lasting impact, and there needs to be more collaboration and a unified vision on how to solve it.
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