New Treatment Facilities Fight Addiction in Richland County (Joseph Trolian)

August 28, 2018

In 2016, Joseph Trolian, the Executive Director of the Richland County Mental Health &

Recovery Services Board, started collaborating with many community partners and leaders to address the growing needs in addressing opiate addiction. A missing component in the treatment continuum of care in Richland County was withdrawal management, otherwise known as "detox". Director Trolian was the Clinical Director of the Board when Freedom Hall closed, it was the only local option for withdrawal management service in Richland County. Trolian spent two years raising funds and a location for these new services to help the community. Christy Ellis-Trolian talked about how many starts and stops Joe faced in the process and but Joe just kept persevering.

After encountering several barriers, Joe Trolian coordinated with the Sterkel Trust and partnered with Catalyst Life Services to break ground on Scholl Road for a new withdrawal management facility and a women’s residential treatment facility. Trolian said the addition of these two builds on the same campus as the current New Beginnings (residential treatment), will allow individuals in need to immediately receive withdrawal management services and then walk across the parking lot to start residential treatment with little to no disruption.

The $2.5 million dollar project will be built with money provided by the Ohio Department of

Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Richland Foundation, the S.N. and Ada Ford Foundation, OhioHealth Foundation, and local levy dollars. It is anticipated that these buildings will be operational by Summer of 2019.

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