Chad Abraham:
"Aspen’s new assistant city attorney, who also serves as municipal prosecutor, said Friday she is reaching out to other officials in the areas of law enforcement and substance abuse treatment to try to reduce the number of repeat offenders appearing in court.
Debbie Quinn said she has spoken with the heads of The Right Door counseling center, the Pitkin County Jail and the county’s health and human services department about the recidivism issue. Her determination so far is that there are no quick fixes.
“It’s an issue in every community, dealing with the homeless, the mentally ill,” Quinn said, adding a sobering statistic that Colorado ranks 48th in the nation in funding for mental health care. “I don’t think we’re unusual, but it’s a dilemma.”
Brooke Peterson, an Aspen attorney and the city’s chief municipal judge, recently presided over a case involving a man whom the judge said has been in court every month for six months. On Wednesday, Peterson heard from Vince Savage, the director of the Aspen Homeless Shelter, about a woman who has been repeatedly arrested for trespassing. The Savage verdict: Aspen simply does not have the resources, such as a home for the mentally ill, that would best serve the woman...."
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Showing posts with label substance abuse treatment. Show all posts
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May 7, 2012
February 23, 2012
SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "Right Door will remain independent"
Andrew Travers:
"A planned merger of The Right Door and the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation has fizzled due to an improved financial footing of the substance-abuse treatment organization, as well as philosophical differences between the nonprofits.
The Right Door, a nonprofit that provides counseling and services to treat substance abuse, had been slated to close last year due to financial difficulties. To keep it afloat, the medical foundation last fall began attempting to integrate The Right Door under its management.
The organizations held numerous meetings throughout the fall and the beginning of this year, crafting a management agreement. But both sides decided recently to scrap the plan. They had been attempting to merge the medical foundation’s Aspen Hope Center, which focuses on suicide prevention and mental health services, with The Right Door’s substance abuse treatment.
“Once we got more involved in their approach and ours, that’s when we decided it wasn’t a good match,” said medical foundation director Kris Marsh.
She said the differing treatment approaches of the organizations proved too different. While the Hope Center relies primarily on professional counseling, The Right Door’s case management services focus on counseling and transitioning clients with drug and alcohol problems into 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous.
Marsh and Right Door board president Michael Campbell said that attempting to mesh the approaches would be ineffective.
“We both came to the conclusion that we work better as complementary organizations,” Campbell said. “Bigger is not necessarily better....” (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"A planned merger of The Right Door and the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation has fizzled due to an improved financial footing of the substance-abuse treatment organization, as well as philosophical differences between the nonprofits.
The Right Door, a nonprofit that provides counseling and services to treat substance abuse, had been slated to close last year due to financial difficulties. To keep it afloat, the medical foundation last fall began attempting to integrate The Right Door under its management.
The organizations held numerous meetings throughout the fall and the beginning of this year, crafting a management agreement. But both sides decided recently to scrap the plan. They had been attempting to merge the medical foundation’s Aspen Hope Center, which focuses on suicide prevention and mental health services, with The Right Door’s substance abuse treatment.
“Once we got more involved in their approach and ours, that’s when we decided it wasn’t a good match,” said medical foundation director Kris Marsh.
She said the differing treatment approaches of the organizations proved too different. While the Hope Center relies primarily on professional counseling, The Right Door’s case management services focus on counseling and transitioning clients with drug and alcohol problems into 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous.
Marsh and Right Door board president Michael Campbell said that attempting to mesh the approaches would be ineffective.
“We both came to the conclusion that we work better as complementary organizations,” Campbell said. “Bigger is not necessarily better....” (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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