$400,000 state grant awarded to IOD to launch alternative peer support groups
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A new grant from New Hampshire’s Division of Behavioral Health at the Department of Health and Human Services awarded the Institute on Disability at UNH $400,000 to create alternative peer groups for students in recovery from substance abuse. IOD's Heidi Cloutier leads this effort working with and supported by 12 other campus departments, and Live Free Adolescent Recovery, which make up the Supportive Recovery Campus Community (SRCC), including Health and Wellness, Student Life, Community Equity and Diversity offices among many others. The Institute for Disability has assisted with the creation of alternative peer groups for youth organizations around the state for eight years, but this fall marked the start of UNH’s group, Cloutier says.
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