Progress CCC Reentrants Learn About Positive Recovery Solutions

Amanda Core, RN and Chief Operations Officer for Positive Recovery Solutions (PRS), shared her personal as well as professional experience with Progress Community Corrections Center reentrants about addiction and recovery.

She talked about the services PRS provides, including being the DOC's community contract provider, and educated them on Vivitrol as an injectable Medication Assisted Treatment for opiate and/or alcohol addiction. A PRS Mobile Unit assessed and administered the first Vivitrol injection at Progress on May 28, 2019 to a parole violator prior to his planned discharge the following week. On June 6, PRS assessed and injected two parole violators as well as provided the third injection for a reentrant who had been participating in the DOC's Vivitrol project while at SCI Albion. They'll be returning on July 12 and plan to continue sending their mobile unit at least monthly. Reentrants have also had a presentation for our staff from an Alkermes pharmaceutical representative (the maker of Vivitrol) and are getting more educational materials to share in various areas of the facility to hopefully get reentrants and/or their visitors to think about recovery tool options.