Recovery home gets part-time manager

NEWS RELEASE

DAVID ORAZIETTI, MPP

***************************** Orazietti announces $30,000 for the Ken Brown Recovery Home

Provincial funding provides greater long-term stability for local rehabilitation programs

SAULT STE. MARIE - The provincial government is supporting the Ken Brown Recovery Home Foundation with $30,000 to hire a new part-time manager, David Orazietti, MPP announced today.   “Our government is committed to building strong communities by providing Ontarians with the supports they need to help improve their quality of life,” said Orazietti. “The Ken Brown Recovery Home has been assisting residents in Sault Ste. Marie for many years and this provincial funding will allow the foundation to hire a new manager who can focus on creating greater long-term stability for the home’s programs.”

The provincial funding, which is being delivered through the province’s Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), will enable the Ken Brown Recovery Home Foundation to hire new staff that will assist with projects that include further developing the foundation’s fundraising program.

An additional part-time manager will be hired to develop a new fundraising strategy for the organization.

"On behalf of the board of directors, staff and volunteers of the Ken Brown Recovery Home Foundation, I wish to express our sincere appreciation to the Government of Ontario for our recent receipt of grant funding through the Ontario Trillium Foundation,” said Wince Lyons, executive director of the Ken Brown Recovery Home. ”This kind support will enhance the fundraising capacity of our organization and help us to increase sustainability of the Home’s programs, supporting men recovering from alcohol and drug dependency."

Incorporated in 1974, the Ken Brown Recovery Home Foundation provides supports for men recovering from alcohol and drug dependency.

The Foundation operates two residential programs for men in various stages of recovery, including a 14-bed recovery home and an eight-bed transition home.

Clients are offered group therapy, individual counseling and addictions education, among other services. In addition to delivering substance abuse programming, the foundation seeks to educate the public on issues relating to substance abuse and addiction.

Other provincial investments in Sault Ste. Marie through The Ontario Trillium Foundation total over $4 million and include:

- $138,000 Algoma Residential Community Hospice

- $120,000 Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre

- $98,700 Community Living Algoma

- $93,000 Sault Youth Association

- $77,300 Soo Pee Wee Association

- $75,000 Sault Ste. Marie Skatepark

- $68,500 Learning Disabilities Association SSM

- $67,500 Rotary Club of Sault Ste. Marie

- $60,000 Sault Ste. Marie Symphony Association

- $60,000 Soo Finnish Nordic Ski Club

- $50,000 Tarentorus Sports Club

- $41,000 United Way of SSM

- $30,000 Searchmont Ski Runners

- $30,000 Family YMCA Sault Ste. Marie

- $27,600 Echoes Drum Festival Sault Ste. Marie

- $15,000 St. Mary’s River Marine Heritage Centre

- $14,500 Art Gallery of Algoma

A leading grant maker in Canada, the Ontario Trillium Foundation strengthens the capacity of the voluntary sector through investments in community-based initiatives.

An agency of the Government of Ontario, OTF builds healthy and vibrant communities. www.trilliumfoundation.org

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