[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 190 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2274-E2275]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HAYMARKET HOUSE'S CSAT GRANT

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                          HON. CARDISS COLLINS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, Nov. 30, 1995

  Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I would like to announce that 
Haymarket House in my congressional district has recently been selected 
to receive a grant to provide residential substance abuse treatment to 
more than 20 women and their children by the Center for Substance Abuse 
Treatment [CSAT] Residential Women and Children [RWC] grant program.
  Haymarket House currently provides comprehensive and integrated 
treatment services to approximately 13,000 clients each year, making it 
the largest drug abuse treatment 

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center in the State of Illinois. With the CSAT demonstration grant, 
Haymarket intends to provide 22 chemically dependent women and up to 31 
drug-exposed children with a continuum of care.
  The goals of Haymarket House's recovery recovery program are to 
reduce the recidivism rate among chemically dependent women and to 
enhance the maternal-child attachment and promote independent living.
  One of the greatest barriers that high-risk women currently face when 
seeking substance abuse treatment is lack of child care. CSAT's grant 
will enable Haymarket House to address this problem by establishing a 
model recovery home providing drug abuse prevention and treatment, 
health services, child care, parent training, vocational education, and 
job placement. This integration helps treatment centers like Haymarket 
improve their prevention and treatment services so that drug addictions 
can be treated more quickly.
  I commend Haymarket House for their innovative approach to substance 
abuse and encourage my colleagues to visit this facility in my 
congressional district to see for yourselves what a remarkably 
successful drug treatment program Haymarket House has established.

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