The announcement comes after criticism from Democratic Mayor Joyce Craig and Democratic senators that the state has not done a good job dealing with the opioid crisis one year into the $64 million effort, particularly with its contract with Granite Pathways.
The term “clubhouse” was coined in 1948 when a group of men recently discharged from a mental health facility in New York decided to help each other get back on their feet and integrate into society. When they proved effective at doing so, the men from New York decided to expand their model in a more organized way. Thus, the Pathways Clubhouse system was born.
No, what really and truly galls and angers me is a single sentence, used as the headline for the piece: “What is critical for our community to understand is that relapse is part of the recovery process.” No, my friends, that is exactly what we in the recovery community know to be false, misleading, and potentially fatal for anyone who puts it into practice.
“It is not the relapse that is newsworthy. What is newsworthy is that there are community-based service providers, like Granite Pathways, that do not judge and are willing to re-engage with individuals in recovery whenever and wherever they are ready. Every time.”
According to the parent, the juvenile was treated for ingesting hand sanitizer.
Several ambulances were dispatched to Granite Pathways on River Road Nov. 25.
A Superior Court judge refused to revoke bail for a man accused of sexually assaulting three teenage girls who walked away from the Granite Pathways Youth Treatment Center last July saying new information a prosecutor provided did not meet the criteria for revocation.
NH law says youth treatment centers like Granite Pathways can’t restrict teens from leaving the campus. One father whose son has been there says the law needs to be changed to protect the children.
When two teens returned to Granite Pathways after walking away Tuesday night, a prosecutor said one was nude, the other was partially clothed, both were covered in vomit, highly intoxicated and distraught after being sexually assaulted by two men.
The focus became youth at risk and the opioid crisis with the board designating $50,000 to Safe Station and another $50,000 to MPAL (Manchester Police Athletic League). That left $12,000 but the board decided to up that to $30,000 so that Granite Pathways, which operates the Youth Treatment Center at the John H. Sununu Youth Services Center, could get a van to transport the youth to various activities.
The center will provide voluntary treatment options for young people ages 12-18 in need of in-patient treatment for substance abuse, the first of its kind in New Hampshire.
“In addition to the federal State Opioid Response funding that will serve new and expectant mothers as well as children and families involved with the child welfare system, the SUD treatment facility in Manchester is the first of its kind in New Hampshire to specifically focus on serving youths with a substance use disorder.”
