Finance Committee - 12/06/2017 Page 4
MOTION CARRIED
Agreement between the City of Nashua and Revive Recovery, Inc.
Mayor Donchess
On your desks is an agreement between the City of Nashua and Revive Recovery which | am going to ask the
committee to at least consider under suspension of the rules. The resolution that would fund a recovery coach
pilot project with Revive went before the Budget committee last night and a couple of members here were
there: Alderman O’Brien and Alderman Wilshire. They recommended final passage on a unanimous vote at the
committee. Assuming the board were to adopt the recommendation of the Budget committee and pass the
resolution that would establish that pilot project, which | discussed at the last meeting of the Board of
Aldermen, we would enter a contract, namely this contract, with Revive for the provision of those services.
There is a lot of boiler plate here, but Section 4 allows us, the City, to gain reports on a monthly basis
regarding client outcomes and other information that we will want to demonstrate the effectiveness of the pilot
program. We would be asking for reports regarding how people in recovery are doing after 30, after 60, after
90, after 180 days; are they still in recovery. We'd be asking about relapse rates and the number of people who
are being served and the number of people who have broken off contact, so that we would get a very
comprehensive look at the client population that the recovery coach would work with, pursuant to this pilot. At
any one time, the number of cases or people or clients that the coach would be working with would be in the
range of 20-40. Therefore, if the committee is of this mind, | would ask that you suspend the rules to consider
this contract for approval.
MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE THAT THE RULES BE SO FAR SUSPENDED AS TO ALLOW FOR
THE INTRODUCTION OF A CONTRACT RECEIVED AFTER THE AGENDA WAS PREPARED
MOTION CARRIED
ON THE MOTION
Mayor Donchess
| gave this to the members of the Budget committee, but | did want to pass out — and maybe we should accept
this as well — the AMR report that they do on a frequent basis for the City. This just documents what’s been
happening with the Safe Stations reporter; people who have reported into Safe Stations are over 1,200 so far.
The recovery coach that would be part of the pilot would work with those who have come off Safe Stations,
obviously not all of them but a certain proportion of them, in order to connect the next step of the process that
is more help in terms of life coaching for the people who are beginning into recovery. We would be able to
connect that part of this effort into the Safe Stations program. But this just shows you quite a lot of information
about what’s happening at Safe Stations. It shows that OD’s are down 25% from this previous 12 months to
the 12 months before that, and shows the number of OD calls and the number of fatalities on a monthly basis,
as well as a lot of other information regarding the characteristics: the ages; the gender, etc. of the people
reporting; the number of Narcan doses, the size of those doses; where the people are coming from; and a lot
of other information regarding the Safe Stations program.
Alderman Clemons
One of the questions | have is the participation of this. Is everyone that comes to the stations, is it all opioid
related or is it a mix of other issues?
Mayor Donchess
It’s definitely a mix. | would say most of it is opioids, but certainly we are getting people who are reporting with
alcohol issues and also, to some degree, other drugs such as cocaine or crystal meth. Harbor Homes reports
