
City of Red Deer receives $50,000 provincial grant for addictions Recovery Summit
The City of Red Deer has received a $50,000 grant by the provincial Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction to host their first Recovery Summit.
At their meeting on Monday, council approved the receipt of the grant, amending the budget to spend the one-time funding within the next 12 months.
The City explains that in recent years, the Alberta Government has been shifting to a Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) model, implicating how services are to be implemented across several ministries.
In October 2022, Red Deer city council adopted the governmental report “Toward an Alberta Model of Wellness” as a foundational guideline toward a community focus on recovery and advocated to the province to financially support a local conference on the topic of recovery.