Countywide : Alcohol Treatment Funding Approved

The County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to spend more than $3 million on an array of alcohol treatment services.

The funding request was made by the County Health Care Agency on behalf of several alcohol treatment agencies. According to health officials, the money will be used to provide a comprehensive range of alcohol treatment programs, including education, prevention, early intervention, outpatient counseling, residential treatment and support for dependent children of alcoholic women.

The Roque Center Inc. in Garden Grove will receive $805,000 for residential treatment services; California Hispanic Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Inc. will get $627,933 for both residential and outpatient treatment; Social Model Recovery Services Systems Inc. was awarded $429,844 for a residential treatment program for adolescents; Community Counseling Center Inc. received $485,459 for both outpatient and residential treatment, and Woodglen Recovery Junction Inc. received $272,854 for residential treatment.

The rest of the money was split among Villa Inc., a residential treatment program; Straight Talk Clinic Inc. and the Orangewood Children’s Foundation for alcohol respite services.

In other business, the board held a public hearing to determine how to distribute more than $75.8 million in special district augmentation funds initially set aside to help make up for the budgetary shortfalls attributed to Proposition 13 cuts.

Most of the funds will go to the Fire Department, flood control, the Harbors, Beaches and Parks Department and the library system. The Placentia Library District is also seeking $41,000 to expand a literacy program for disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Meanwhile, county officials are in the final stages of preparing the proposed budget for fiscal 1992. The supervisors will hold a public hearing June 16 on the proposed budget and will vote on the document on June 30.