HCRS opens facility for youth stabilization program
Brattleboro Reformer
Formerly home to Brattleboro Pharmacy, a Canal Street building is now hosting a youth stabilization program for those between the ages of 12 and 18 to help support clinical, peer and case management supports as an alternative to hospitalization and a diversion from the emergency room.
“But it’s not just the youth,” said George Karabakakis, CEO of Health Care & Rehabilitation Services (HCRS). “It’s also their families and their supporters and their caregivers, to really give them the connections and the resources that they might need to remain in the community.”
An open house held Thursday was attended by school officials and representatives from social service agencies.
Karabakakis said he believes connections provided through the program can make a difference in the lives of youth. He called the peer support piece of the program “really critical,” seeing it as “a really important way to engage and connect them.”