{"id":1318332,"date":"2020-02-19T21:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=993774"},"modified":"2020-02-19T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T04:56:48","slug":"recovery-continuum-task-force-working-to-bring-detox-facility-to-glenwood-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/recovery-continuum-task-force-working-to-bring-detox-facility-to-glenwood-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery Continuum Task Force working to bring detox facility to Glenwood Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mind Springs Health will relocate to its new Glenwood Springs facility later this year. Chelsea Self\/Post Independent<\/strong>
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Hope \u2014 and lots of it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what New Castle Police Chief Tony Pagni sees in the recent efforts to bring a detox facility back to Garfield County, specifically in Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the most hope I\u2019ve seen in a long time,\u201d he told the New Castle Town Council on Tuesday night. \u201cI can tell you the detox facility is needed for the people that you wouldn\u2019t think need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pagni made clear, however, that a detox facility alone would not solve the region\u2019s drug- and alcohol-dependency challenges.<\/p>\n

Instead, Pagni took it a step further by speaking to the critical need for a continuum of care following a struggling individual\u2019s time in detox.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking that next step come to fruition, that\u2019s more valuable in my opinion,\u201d Pagni said.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the city of Glenwood Springs partnered with longtime YouthZone executive director Debbie Wilde on the issue of homelessness.<\/p>\n

After bringing multiple stakeholders together from throughout the county, including first responders, emergency room doctors, behavioral health specialists, elected officials and others, that partnership quickly evolved into something even bigger.<\/p>\n

The conversation shifted from examining just homelessness to instead focusing on a disease that can affect anyone regardless of socioeconomic status \u2013 addiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be in any of our homes, any of our neighborhoods,\u201d Glenwood Springs City Councilor Paula Stepp said. \u201cThe last time we had a detox center was about 12 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

At New Castle\u2019s town council meeting Tuesday, both Stepp and Wilde gave a presentation about the Recovery Continuum Task Force that developed out of those earlier discussions.<\/p>\n

Additionally, around the time those conversations started to unfold, Mind Springs Health announced plans to relocate into a new, more centrally located office in Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

Currently, Mind Springs has an office in south Glenwood Springs along Colorado Highway 82. However, later this year, Minds Springs plans on moving into its new location at 2802 S. Grand Ave.<\/p>\n

Mind Springs, with the help of the Recovery Continuum Task Force, has plans to include a detox facility and resource center at its new Glenwood Springs facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were really looking, first and foremost, for a building that met the needs of our staff and would be the best facility to provide care to our patients,\u201d said Stephanie Keister, Mind Springs Health public relations manager. \u201cBut in the back of our minds we were also thinking about looking for a facility that could potentially host a detox center.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Mind Springs Health\u2019s outpatient program director Hans Lutgring, the behavioral health organization recently received a grant from West Slope Casa that will allow them to hire two new mobile case managers and two mobile peer specialists.<\/p>\n

West Slope Casa is a behavioral health provider network covering 17 rural counties and over 30,000 square miles in western Colorado, according to its website.<\/p>\n

Lutgring explained that the new positions would not only assist people leaving detox but also those who hadn\u2019t even gone into it, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalk to them about the hope of recovery,\u201d Lutgring said.<\/p>\n

Although, funding mechanisms were still being discussed for the regional detox center, New Castle Mayor Art Riddile discussed the possibility of utilizing tobacco tax dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of our dedication of our cigarette tax was to go to health and wellness,\u201d Riddile said. \u201cTo me that sounds like it\u2019s right down the alley of a detox facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glenwood Springs voters authorized a similar tobacco tax last November.<\/p>\n

According to Glenwood Springs\u2019 tobacco tax\u2019s specific ballot language, additional revenues collected could potentially fund drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse prevention as well as \u201cdetox facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not looking at a place to just dump people off,\u201d Wilde said. \u201cEverybody on that continuum has a role in trying to engage folks into getting into a space of living and recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Mind Springs Health will relocate to its new Glenwood Springs facility later this year. Chelsea Self\/Post Independent Hope \u2014 and lots of it. That\u2019s what New Castle Police Chief Tony Pagni sees in the recent efforts to bring a detox facility back to Garfield County, specifically in Glenwood Springs. \u201cIt\u2019s the most hope I\u2019ve seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 17:54:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}