Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday a recovery center for women that is set to open soon in Johnson City represents a statewide model of a public/private partnership for substance abuse treatment.
“You all are aware of what’s happening right here,” Lee told local leaders before he and his wife, Maria, toured the Northeast Tennessee Recovery Center treatment house located on the campus of Families Free on Princeton Road. “The reason I say that is we have got to encourage one another in how we can take programs and prototypes like this and magnify them across the state.”
Tennessee officials have agreed to a plan to lease the now-closed Northeast Correctional Complex annex in Carter County to a group developing the Northeast Tennessee Regional Recovery Center.
The mayors of Carter, Sullivan and Washington counties say a number of collaborative projects on education, drug recovery and economic development are set to yield benefits for Northeast Tennessee.