Frank & Pearl Gelbman Recovery House To Extend Services For Mahoning Valley
Recovery-Supportive Home To Be Built Near Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic's Main Campus
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thanks to the $100,000 gift from the Frank & Pearl Gelbman Trust of Huntington Bank, an eight-bed recovery-supportive housing unit will be built near the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic's (NKRC's) Main Campus in Youngstown.
The facility, to be named the Frank & Pearl Gelbman Recovery House, will offer a supportive sober-living environment for patients who need more structure than a regular outpatient program provides, but who no longer require medical monitoring. Groundbreaking for the facility is scheduled by June 15, 2014, with occupancy set for January 2015.
"The need for detox services in the Mahoning Valley has increased significantly over the past decade due, in large part, to the alarming increase of prescription-drug and heroin abuse," Jerry Carter, NKRC's Executive Director, said. "According to the most recent data available from the Ohio Department of Health, opiate-related overdose deaths in our region increased 775 percent from 2000 through 2011."
NKRC is the sole regional resource for non-hospital, community-based medical detoxification services. For many patients with substance-use disorders, detox is first step toward recovery.
"We understand that in order to serve more people in the detoxification program, NKRC needs to offer expanded services, so the Gelbman Trust believes the contribution really supports the overall health of the Mahoning Valley," J. David Sabine, J.D., Senior VP & Senior Trust Officer, Huntington Bank, said. Mr. Sabine also serves on NKRC's Board of Directors.
When completed, Gelbman Recovery House will include rooming and meals, 24-hour security, a full day of outpatient substance-use treatment services via the main facility, community-building skills with the other residents, recovery coaching to build resiliency, and connection to the larger recovering community.
The new recovery-supportive home will allow NKRC to serve an estimated 400 additional patients annually who require detoxification services, as well as up to 188 more people per year in the recovery-supportive housing program.
ABOUT THE NEIL KENNEDY RECOVERY CLINIC: www.nkrc.org ; 800-228-8287
An Ohio subsidiary of Gateway Rehab, the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic (NKRC), was founded in 1946 in Youngstown. NKRC also has facilities in Austintown, Howland and Dublin to assist people in recovery from substance-use disorders.
SOURCE Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic
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