Denver (KDVR)-Wednesday morning, Governor Jared Police and the state leaders in Watkens were to switch the first position in the recovery center of its kind with wrap treatment services using the resources that they had already built.
State leaders celebrated the conversion of the youth services building with a turbulent past in a place that people who struggle with addiction throughout the state can come and get help.
The Sage Ridge community will provide a supportive housing community, recovery services, work training, medical and teeth care for the colors of factors that fight homelessness or addiction. The building that included the center was the Ridge View Youth Services Center.
“This entire campus was beautiful serving 20-25 young men. I would also like to add, not especially in particular. There were a number of audit and issues that came out of the performance here. So when we saw that, I like this was more used. I mean that we could put in the effort to try to fix it in favor of 25 children. The new space.
Ridge View was closed in 2021. legislators were approved in the state a invoice The following year, the paved cannot be the way to develop the building into a society where people who struggle with help can only live, but rather live a life in a comfortable and safe environment before re -introducing society.
“It is the first of a unique type, not only in the state but most likely at the national level, where we can combine everyone not only to consider behavioral health but also to consider drug use disorder. I am very happy because I worked hard with housing to make sure of all this together.”
The state already runs the supportive Fort Lyons in Las Anis Province, but the ruler said that this new facility adds more services, including the toxin disposal component. The leaders said that some of the residents of this facility will move here to enhance their journey.
“We must be very deliberate in our activation plan to do this in a very designed way because we are building a society. So you cannot throw everyone at once, you have to do this gradually,” said Maria de Cambra, Executive Director of the Local Affairs Department at Colorado.
The leaders hope to obtain this facility and operate it by the end of this year, as 100 people moved at that time, before working at full capacity by the first quarter of 2026.
The complex was built using $ 45 million in the US Rescue Plan, $ 48.7 million in country capital project funds, $ 2 million of local financial recovery funds in Arabahu Province and $ 1.5 million of local financial recovery funds in Aurora.