Community Health Center Receives Grant to Expand Substance Abuse Programs

COURTESY OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD

FALMOUTH – Community Health Center of Cape Cod has received a $10,000 grant to expand its substance abuse treatment programming.

The award from the Cape Cod Foundation’s Jean B. Edgerly Memorial Fund and The Janet T. Spence Fund will be used to increase outpatient and medication-assisted treatment, along with expanding programming to provide partial-day treatment and counseling.

The center currently treats more than 5,500 substance abuse visits each year with a goal of providing care for more than 9,000 visits.

Community Health Center was one of five non-profits to receive a total of $48,500 in strategic grants from the Cape Cod Foundation to provide preservation, health, employment and educational services.

Other recipients include the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Duffy Health Center, Lower Cape Outreach Council and Mass Audubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary & the Sanctuaries of the Mid and Upper Cape.

Community Health Center of Cape Cod operates at locations in Falmouth, Mashpee and Bourne.