Copper Shores Community Health Foundation Commits $300,000 For the GLRC’s John Kivela Center in Negaunee

Edit: Copper Shores Community Health foundation will commit 300,000 dollars to the John Kivela Center in Negaunee.

The Copper Shores Community Health Foundation supports the Great Lakes Recovery Center’s new center in Negaunee with a 300,000 dollar grant. Yesterday the Copper Shores Community Health Foundation announced it has committed 300,000 dollars to the GLRC’s plans to overhaul the John Kivela Center in Negaunee. The project plans to make improvements that allow Recovery Center staff to focus on integrating a whole-person style of care with clients. Great Lakes Recovery Center’s CEO Greg Toutant says the center’s clients that experience the whole person care approach will include timely, on-site, directed care, with help to identify issues around social determinants of health. Including housing vocational, transportation, and employment needs.

The Great Lakes Recovery Center provides community resources and services for addiction recovery and substance abuse disorder. The goal of the John Kivela Center will seek to address addiction and substance abuse in much the same way as the GLRC Ripley Recovery Center in L’Anse, which includes substance abuse disorder programming, mental health services, child and adolescent care, integrated medical services, case management, recovery housing, and community-based prevention.

In 2020 the Copper Shores Foundation supported the Ripley Recovery Center in L’Anse. Copper Shores Executive Director Kevin Store says that the foundation is proud to again work with the Great Lakes Recovery Center on developing effective models and spaces for addiction recovery in the Upper Peninsula. Those interested in learning more about the 100,000-dollar funding from Copper Shores to support the Great Lakes Recovery Center’s John Kivela Center in Negaunee can find more details here.