Lifeline Connections won a $5,000 American Psychiatric Association Foundation Award for Advancing Minority Mental Health, which recognizes efforts to serve minority communities.
The Vancouver-based drug rehabilitation and mental health provider has one of the few deaf and hard-of-hearing programs in the nation that provides drug and alcohol addiction treatment in American Sign Language. The program started in 2001, and Lifeline recently inked an agreement with the state of Oregon to begin serving Oregonians.
The $5,000 will be used to provide patient incentives, purchase educational materials and train staff members, Lifeline said.
