Coakley awards $8M in grants to 22 groups

BOSTON – Attorney General Martha Coakley last week awarded close to $8 million to a total of 22 organizations across the commonwealth to increase access to behavioral-health services.
In Bristol County, Mass., the Stanley Street Treatment & Resources Inc. will receive an unspecified amount for a drug-offender referral program. According to a news release, the District Attorney’s Office will refer nonviolent drug offenders and drug offenders with mental illness for immediate access to mental health and substance-abuse services, a treatment plan, drug testing and case management.
The grants are funded through money recovered by Coakley’s office through a settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Dubbed the Increasing Access to and Measuring the Benefits of Providing Behavioral Health Services in Massachusetts grant program, the latter asks grant recipients to build on or create programs to improve the delivery of services to underserved populations.
The projects funded over a two-year period involve direct care, public awareness, training, screenings and referral. •

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