Puskar Basis helps Lauren’s Want with main donation

“It covers a 12 months’s price of hire.”

“You could possibly name it a month price of maintaining the doorways open.”

“It might be utilized to all the things.”

The above are only a few examples of how Lauren’s Want Founder and Chairman Michael Cole and Board of Administrators Members Edward Boyle and John Todd may see a $50,000 donation from the Milan Puskar Basis getting used to help the mission of the group.

“That’s massive. And so they’ve performed that twice,” Boyle mentioned, including the Basis’s first donation got here earlier than Lauren’s Want opened the doorways to its Dependancy Triage Heart at Hazel’s Home of Hope one 12 months in the past.

“That first donation got here sight unseen,” Boyle mentioned. “…as a result of they believed within the mission.”

Now, a 12 months after they first opened the Dependancy Triage Heart, Lauren’s Want has a full employees, homes a mean of 16-19 purchasers a day on the 24-bed facility, and has helped over 360 people affected by dependancy by offering a spot to remain secure and sober till they can be positioned in a longer-term therapy facility.

The board members defined how there’s a hole in dependancy therapy between the hospital following an overdose and a long-term therapy middle the place many affected by dependancy are left to fend for themselves whereas ready for placement in a middle.

“No one has ever addressed this void between the ER and a therapy middle,” Cole mentioned of the middle’s key objective.

That void is what the Lauren’s Want Dependancy Triage Heart is attempting to fill.

On the middle, a secure and wholesome house is supplied for people who’re looking for therapy placement. Shoppers are monitored by peer restoration employees and have entry to case administration and dependancy restoration assets in a wholesome atmosphere. When a placement is made, Lauren’s Want transports them to their vacation spot, guaranteeing that secure atmosphere shouldn’t be compromised.

In fact, all of this prices cash. Using a certified employees, transporting purchasers, basic provides like bottled water and bathroom paper, and guaranteeing their purchasers’ wants are met are only a few of the bills Lauren’s Want faces each day. As a non-profit, the group doesn’t settle for cash from purchasers who of their eyes all deserve an opportunity to get properly no matter their monetary scenario.

Cole, Boyle and Todd mentioned with donations just like the one from the Milan Puskar Basis and different supporters of their trigger, donations and help from many organizations and people within the better Monongalia County neighborhood, and funds contributed by board members, they’ve been capable of accomplish a lot.

Following a examine presentation to Lauren’s Want, representatives from Milan Puskar Basis got a tour of the Dependancy Triage Heart they’re serving to to help.

“I’m glad that we have been capable of see this and be part of it and supply some help,” Milan Puskar Basis Govt Director Lori Maynard mentioned. “I’m completely satisfied we’re right here and have the chance as this basis to do that for a corporation that’s working so tirelessly to fill that hole for these which can be fighting dependancy, so they don’t seem to be relapsing.”

If you need extra details about the work being performed at Lauren’s Want or wish to donate, go to their web site laurenswish.org.