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While treatment programs at the nonprofit Santa Fe Recovery Center are primarily funded through patients’ health insurers, startup costs for new initiatives, equipment and capital expenses are not. The nonprofit relies on private grants and donations to cover such costs.

“We’ve got a lot of community support,” said CEO Sylvia Barela.

The 100 Women Who Care of Santa Fe recently selected the organization for a $10,000 donation. “The money for that is going to go toward cribs and diapers and breast pumps and formula” for a new mother-child program, Barela said.

The center also received a $15,000 grant from the national nonprofit KaBOOM to construct a playground on the Recovery Center’s 5-acre Lucia Lane campus.

A donor offered a matching $15,000, Barela said. “We were then able to secure two additional offers of matching funds from two local donors up to a total of $10,000 if we can raise that amount from community donations.”

To donate to the capital campaign, or to learn more about needs at the Recovery Center, call 505-471-4985.

To learn more about the center’s treatment services, visit sfrecovery.org.

Mothers and children admitted to the new program participate “together, as one unit, instead of as two separate entities growing separately,” she added.

The mother-child program is a collaboration between the Recovery Center, La Familia Medical Center and Las Cumbres Community Services, which provides behavioral health therapy.

Las Cumbres hopes to continue working with families, offering home visiting and other early child services “that could honestly last many months or even years,” said Stacey Frymier, director of child and family services. “We really want to break these multigenerational cycles of substance abuse.”

Mona believes she has reached the turning point she sought when she enrolled in the Recovery Center’s mother-child program.

“Everybody is very supportive of each other,” she said. “We try to stay very positive. … If any moms get this opportunity, I would recommend it.”