A Worcester-area team of people working to prevent child abuse was honored by District Attorney Joe Early on Thursday in recognition of National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Wareham Police program targets addiction, not addicts
“We needed to do something,” she said.
But the “Wareham Fighting Against Addiction Drop-In Center,” opened at the Church of the Good Shepherd on High Street a little over three years ago, has been closed due to COVID.
Alfonso and Bill Pimental were instrumental in starting the addiction drop-in center and have continued to work on the community’s addiction problem as best they could.
Now an ally in their fight against addiction has appeared: the Wareham Police Dept.
“Bill and I have been doing things on the back end and then Wareham PD came to us and said we need to do something with the community. So we came up with this program.”