Rochester Prevention and Treatment Groups to Merge January 10, 2003
Communities in Action A Rochester substance-abuse prevention and education group will merge with a treatment provider in January 2003, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported December 15. The merger will result in savings and will allow the new organization to provide a continuum of prevention, education and treatment services. Prevention Partners provides alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention programs, and operates a mobile resource center and a Web site (www.psquared.org) for teens and parents. DePaul Huther-Doyle provides comprehensive treatment for addictions at three facilities in the Rochester area.
"We've been in discussion for one year now," said Joseph M. Calabrese, executive director of Prevention Partners. "These talks accelerated when the county budget crisis hit." Prevention Partners lost more than $300,000 in county funding in 2002. Calabrese hopes about $125,000 of that money will be restored. "That would bring back all but a very few programs," he said. "It would help us get some matching federal money."
