Under a new five-year $2.5 million grant, Northeastern and the Boston Public Health Commission are working together to help local women in the Latina and African American communities recover from addiction, trauma, and mental illness.
The partnership, called Moving on to Recovery and Empowerment (MORE), is funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, part of the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Principal investigator and program cofounder Hortensia Amaro, Distinguished Professor and associate dean at Bouvé College of Health Sciences, and director of the Institute on Urban Health Research, leads the program along with Rita Nieves, who is the director of the Boston Public Health Commission’s Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.
Amaro has also initiated two other Boston-based treatment programs to help women: the Mom’s Project, begun in 1988, which is aimed at drug-addicted pregnant women; and Entre Familia, begun in 1996, a residential treatment program.