Recovery Center Closes on Oxford House
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Some local residents recovering from drug or alcohol addictions will soon have access to safe and sober housing in Moscow. Rachel Sun reports. (Runtime 52 seconds)
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The Latah Recovery Center officially closed on a property for the city’s first Oxford House — a group home for people recovering from drug or alcohol addiction.
The property sold for 450-thousand dollars, and is located on Bitterroot street in Moscow.
It will house seven residents, who could move in as early as July.
Recovery center director Darrell Keim says the center received 200-thousand dollars from the county commissioners in February.
Next Monday, the center’s board will ask the same of the city.
Keim: “We’re sticking with that proposal … When the county agreed to give us 200-thousand, they challenged us to try and get the city to match that.”
The board initially made their request to the city in April, but the decision was tabled due to a limit on grants to nonprofits. That language has since been revised.
This report is made possible by the Lewis-Clark Valley Healthcare Foundation in partnership with NWPB, the Lewiston Tribune, and the Moscow-Pullman Daily news. Produced with assistance from the Public Media Journalists Association Editor Corps funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.
