<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of today's (May 28, 2015) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 34px; font-size: 30px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); line-height: 38px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recovery Center on track to open by Aug. 1</span></h1><p class="sub-headline" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; background-image: url(http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/dnews.com/content/tncms/live/components/core_base_library/resources/images/dingbat.gif); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Latah commissioners expect to provide some additional money</p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Organizers are working to open the Latah Community Recovery Center in downtown Moscow by Aug. 1, they told the County Commissioners on Wednesday.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Its main focus will be to help residents from across the county deal with matters linked to recovery from mental health challenges and substance abuse through peer support, said President Darrell Keim.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A board of directors with nine members was elected earlier this month, and the group completed its business plan for review by the commissioners a couple of weeks ago, he said.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group is close to securing an 1,800-square-foot site for $1,000 monthly rent, he said. They need to put down a $1,000 deposit and sign a letter of intent. Money for its first year of operation, $125,000 from a Millennium Fund request, is expected to arrive July 1.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The center is partnering with Sojourners' Alliance, a Moscow 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, as it establishes itself. This allows the fledgling group to have access to Sojourners' established safety, insurance and other aspects of its organizational structure during the center's first year or, perhaps, longer, he said.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The nonprofit status will allow the center more fundraising opportunities so it could operate independently in the near future.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I hear a lot of positive input from the community," said Commission Chairman Dick Walser.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He asked Keim and several other group leaders whether they've encountered any negativity.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The major stumbling block has been finding a place from which to operate because some property owners have been apprehensive about renting their spaces for this type of activity.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Our intent is to maintain a clean professional atmosphere," Keim told the commissioners. "Not a hangout."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A draft version of a leaflet explaining the center's functions includes tobacco cessation, providing help with coping skills, building self-esteem, and a variety of other programs and materials to improve the chances of long-term recovery success.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The commissioners anticipate providing the center with $24,000 to cover the three-month period after the Millennium Grant runs out at the beginning of summer 2016. This would put them on the same funding cycle as the county itself.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They also asked whether it would help to provide some of the money soon so the center could open its doors a bit earlier, maybe mid-July.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group will see whether it could, but must check on whether it would affect the acceptance of the Millennium money.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scheduled hours of operation would be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, with some evening group meetings.</span></p></div></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>Note to Darrell Keim</b>: Once you've determined, would you please advise me as to the opening date and time of the Latah County Recovery Center. <i>Moscow Cares</i> would like to attend its opening and snap a few photos for publication on the <i>Moscow Cares</i> website (if you would be so kind as to permit us). And one other thing . . . "Thanks for caring."<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>