May 3, 2008
Prestera Center Receives $434 K Grant for SHAPE Program
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnes.net Reporter
(from a Nick Rahall Press Release)
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Acknowledging that “mental health and substance abuse problems are a leading cause of homelessness in our area,” U.S. Dep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) announced May 1 a grant for Prestera Center for Mental Health Services. The $434,000 comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help fund the center’s SHAPE (Support, Hope, Advocacy, Personal responsibility, and Education) program.
SHAPE aims to move chronically homeless individuals and homeless families into permanent housing and provide them with support tools and services necessary to keep them from returning to the streets. Prestera proposes to serve 80 chronically homeless families per year for a total of 400 individuals or families through the five year life of the award. Prestera will increase staff trained in mental illness and substance abuse and expand housing, wellness and other homeless services.
Calling mental illness and substance abuse “two fully treatable disorders,” Rahall said, “Access to affordable health care is one of the top challenges facing our nation. We cannot allow the high cost of treatment to prevent every-day Americans, from getting the help they need and deserve.”
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Prestera Center Receives $434 K Grant for SHAPE Program
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnes.net Reporter
(from a Nick Rahall Press Release)
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Acknowledging that “mental health and substance abuse problems are a leading cause of homelessness in our area,” U.S. Dep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) announced May 1 a grant for Prestera Center for Mental Health Services. The $434,000 comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help fund the center’s SHAPE (Support, Hope, Advocacy, Personal responsibility, and Education) program.
SHAPE aims to move chronically homeless individuals and homeless families into permanent housing and provide them with support tools and services necessary to keep them from returning to the streets. Prestera proposes to serve 80 chronically homeless families per year for a total of 400 individuals or families through the five year life of the award. Prestera will increase staff trained in mental illness and substance abuse and expand housing, wellness and other homeless services.
Calling mental illness and substance abuse “two fully treatable disorders,” Rahall said, “Access to affordable health care is one of the top challenges facing our nation. We cannot allow the high cost of treatment to prevent every-day Americans, from getting the help they need and deserve.”
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