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Great Lakes Recovery Center held a press conference Thursday, April 27th to invite the community to learn more about the new John Kivela Center that is set to open this fall in Negaunee.
Greg Toutant, the CEO of Great Lakes Recovery, gave the keynote address and was joined by Tom Edmark from the West End Health Foundation, as well as Director Elizabeth Hertel from the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services.
The John Kivela Center will be the new cornerstone of mental and behavioral health in the local area upon completion. The facility will feature an eighteen bed women’s residential unit, onsite women’s recovery housing, detox rooms, a children’s specialty clinic and specialized daycare among other services on it’s 32 acre campus.
Currently, four UP counties rank among the top ten statewide for suicide rates. One third of Upper Peninsula counties are in the top twenty of the most socially vulnerable to substance abuse in Michigan, and the number of children separated from their families due to parental substance use has more than doubled in the past two decades, according to data provided by Great Lakes Recovery Center.
The facility has been named in memory of the late State Representative John Kivela, who passed away in 2017, to honor his legacy of serving residents across the Upper Peninsula.
The West End Health Center was one of the gracious supporters of the project. At the press conference they presented Toutant with a check for $300,000 to be used towards the renovations. To learn more about the John Kivela Center, visit glrcfoundation.org/john-kivela-center.
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