NEWBURGH – The state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services has named Independent Living of Newburgh as an official Recovery and Community Outreach Center and will receive a total of $1.75 million over a five-year period to enact the program in a five-county region in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Six such outreach centers are being established in the state.
State Senator William Larkin (R, Cornwall-on-Hudson) is credited with securing the designation for the Independent Living Center.
Center Executive Director Douglas Hovey said the outreach program will be a new type of initiative to combat drug and alcohol abuse.
“Our goal is to begin to create a regional infrastructure that will provide resources and support and placing emphasis on peer counseling,” Hovey said. “We want to try to identify individuals who have lived the experience, who know firsthand what it is like to go through the recovery process and become peer helpers.”
The main office for the program will be in Middletown with satellites in Rockland, Dutchess and Ulster counties.
Larkin, a member of the State Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Adduction, said the group “worked very hard to come up with meaningful solutions in an effort to combat what has become one of the deadliest epidemics of our time.”
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