Community listening session highlights efforts to address addiction
The audience was the focal point of a community listening session as people in recovery, allies and certified recovery specialists discussed local efforts to address addiction with facilitators at Grace Community Wellness Center on Tuesday, Aug. 1.
Community members and experts exchanged ideas with representatives from the Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission (AICDAC), which hosted the event at 123 E. Diamond St. early Tuesday evening. The presentation, which began at 5 p.m., quickly evolved into a dialogue, with community members sharing ideas, challenges and hopes relating to recovery in Butler County that AICDAC facilitators jotted down on large posters.
The meeting marked the initial round of countywide listening sessions and will be used to gather data and spark preliminary discussion around substance use disorder, community support and pathways to recovery. Smaller focus groups will meet sometime in September or October, facilitators said.
