The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority has granted $150,000 to SeaView Community Services in Seward in support of an expansion of their Recovery Housing Program, which supports individuals who are in addiction treatment.
Mike Abbott, CEO of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority spoke to KSRM, “I’m grateful for the opportunity to talk about a great program and the Trust’s opportunity to support it. SeaView operates services in Seward primarily geared towards recovery service, recovering from substance abuse challenges. As a part of their program, they offer housing for their clients and customers and they are looking to expand the housing that they can offer, which means expanding the number of clients that they can serve and expansion of substance abuse treatment programming around Alaska is one of the Trust’s primary priorities. The opportunity to fund it with a large grant from us was a no brainer. They provide services in a community that is generally underserved and we’re grateful that they’re both willing to expand and grateful that we have the resources to help them do it.”
The funding allows SeaView Community Services to expand from 10 to 20 beds. The project will provide Trust Beneficiaries experiencing addiction and co-occurring mental illnesses with safe, healthy, substance-free living and critical treatment services.
Abbott also explained that the Trust recently funded efforts to increase treatment capacity at facilities in Homer, Anchorage and in the Mat-Su, “Our programming is targeted statewide. We have funded enhancements in substance abuse capacity in most communities in the state, but certainly recently, we funded Set Free Alaska’s residential program development in Homer and Akeela House’s expansion in Anchorage. We’re working with those and other providers in other communities around Alaska as well.”
For more information, visit alaskamentalhealthtrust.org.