Lebanon council backs grants for residential treatment facility

LEBANON — The Lebanon City Council last week unanimously granted its support to two grant applications that could yield as much as $1 million for a nonprofit aiming to establish a residential addiction treatment facility for mothers and their children in the city.

Families Flourish Northeast plans to locate the facility for as many as 14 pregnant and parenting women and their children up to age 12 in the Homestead building on Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital’s campus on Mascoma Street.

Just one member of the public spoke during the public hearing last Wednesday, which was held at City Hall and online.

“It is my backyard,” Marjorie Sa’adah said in a recording of the hearing. “I strongly would ask you to vote in favor of this.”

Sa’adah spoke of her experience as a foster parent and said she saw the need for housing and recovering support for young people struggling with substance use disorder.

The councilors voted to support two grants through the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority Community: a Development Block Grant application for up to $500,000 and a Recovery Housing Program grant application for as much as the same amount.

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