By Steve Kemme
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON - A $247,000 federal grant will fund a new alcohol and drug treatment program for adolescents in Butler County.
The Butler County Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Board received the three-year grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
ADAS was the only group in Ohio and one of 22 throughout the country to receive one of those federal grants.
"We're excited about being able to expand our adolescent services," said Dr. John Bohley, executive director of the board.
Sojourner Recovery Services in Hamilton will run the program.
The grant will establish outpatient adolescent treatment services in the Lakota School District, and will enable new programs to be placed in Sojourner's existing Middletown and Hamilton sites.
The program will treat about 675 adolescents over three years, Bohley said.
In addition, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will give $35,000 to ADAS to support program operations.
The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati has awarded $13,000 to ADAS for psychiatric services for a program to help people charged with felonies who are mentally ill and also addicted to alcohol or drugs.
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