While drug addiction continues to ransack the best of society, different communities fight back in organizing campaigns against the disorder. They recognize that immediate intervention and treatment programs can prevent addiction from happening – if they can even make it to the rehab center. To reach more people, Cape May County health experts launch Hope One mobile which acts as a recovery treatment facility van.
Hope One mobile
The project aims to reach more families especially for people suffering from addiction. In having a facility near a community, people can have an easy access to the help they needed. With the fast-paced world we face every day, people are too busy to attend presentations as they have other responsibilities.
Fully equipped
Fully equipped with necessary treatment medication, social work, and even judicial advisors, Hope One mobile has all the resources to cure addiction. Also, the mobile van serves as a prevention education for other disorders like HIV/AIDS and the likes. This creates a more direct way of communicating with the local community about addiction and its prevention. For the Cape May County officials, the van offers families a great way to educate their children about the risks of addiction and other deadly diseases related to the disorder.
“RIO GRANDE — A big white van marked with a purple ribbon on the side sat in the corner of the Rio Station restaurant parking lot on a recent Tuesday morning.
Tables were unfolded, tents were put up and Cape May County health experts, outreach advocates, and judicial representatives got ready to tell as many people as possible about the county’s new Hope One mobile addiction recovery access van.
The new project, a collective effort by the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office, Cape Assist, Cape Regional Medical Center, Cape Counseling, the South Jersey AIDS Alliance and Christians United for Recovery (CURE), aims to reach more families and people suffering from addiction by going directly to where they are.
“It’s hard to get people to come out to presentations or events,” said Lt. Joseph Landis, of the Prosecutor’s Office. “They’re busy, they’ve worked all day, they have kids. So we really need to go to them. In doing this, we’ve already got to more people than we ever did with other events.”
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