New Gresham recovery center aims to expand access to care as part of deflection program

A new treatment center for those struggling with substance abuse is going to be accepting patients in Gresham.

The recovery site, located off of Southeast Stark Street, in between Southeast 214th and 215th Avenue, will be part of Multnomah County’s deflection program which deflects substance users away from the criminal justice system and into treatment.

The Executive Director of 4D Recovery, Tony Vezina, says this place is going to be for young adults ages 18 to 35, and will be able to serve about sixty or more people seven days a week once they’re staffed.

4D Recovery is an addiction recovery organization that primarily helps people get connected with peer support. It also refers people to treatment centers.

"We have a lack of treatment available and so we’re waiting, calling, trying to get appointments or whatever and not to knock the other providers but now we’ll have our own treatment at 4D where we can get people in right away… Here we’re gonna do substance use disorder outpatient treatment, and we’re gonna couple that with mental health therapy," said Tony Vezina, the Executive Director of 4D Recovery.

This treatment center will expand treatment options for people.

"Just in general terms, Gresham, East County, doesn’t have the same services as downtown. A lot of services were concentrated downtown… And then specifically for this location, we’ll have two houses connected to this so people can live in housing as they’re going to treatment," said Vezina.

As for how the treatment center is being funded

"So CareOregon provided us with a couple of million dollars in startup funds for this location and also our outpatient and mental health family services and our residential adolescent services.. [the county is] paying for some deflection workers, but no help on the funding of the actual treatment," said Vezina.

We reached out to Gresham police for an interview about the new treatment center, while they weren’t available for an interview, a spokesperson told us that the department is pleased that there are more pathways to treatment and recovery. Saying in part, "… [T]his will be an evolving process as we collaborate with the county and begin to put our plans into action"

Vezina says they’re already looking at additional sites to expand this treatment center, the goal is to make sure no one has to wait for treatment.

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