December 30, 2023 / By mobanmarket
FALMOUTH, MA — Falmouth’s Select Board issued a proclamation at its most recent meeting noting the grand opening of a new peer recovery support center.
The Gandara Mental Health Center will host a grand opening ceremony this week at its new Falmouth Peer Recovery Support Center location at 769 East Falmouth Highway.
Gandara will host that ceremony on Friday at 11 a.m.
The proclamation read at the Nov. 20 meeting designates Dec. 1 as the Peer Recovery Support Center Grand Opening Day.
Gandara’s new program director at the Falmouth location, AJ Wilsey, spoke at the meeting explaining why this space is important for the community.
“The main thing is to have a safe place for people in recovery to go,” Wilsey said. “We have a lot of people that come to Cape Cod and the come for treatment, end up staying and they end up roaming around and don’t have [anywhere] to go and get themselves back in trouble.”
Wilsey explained that the center can provide a safe haven for people to come if they find themselves on the Cape for treatment. The center can help in any employment and housing search, important steps to help those in recovery help get on their feet.
Wilsey comes to the Falmouth location after serving as the assistant program director at the Hyannis location.
“We’ve had great success with these,” said Wilsey, who shared that overdoses and violence haven’t been a big part of the picture at the centers.
In Falmouth, Friday marks the latest chapter in that path forward for those in recovery.
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