Tucson News NowUA receives $1.6M to support poor working mothers

UA receives $1.6M to support poor working mothers

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TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -

With a major three-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the UA's Southwest Institute for Research on Women is heading up an initiative to support working mothers, and their children, through a residential substance abuse program.

Help for mothers who have addictions and just miss the cut for state-funded care and treatment – because their incomes are slightly too high – can be hard to find, largely because solid structures rarely exist to aid them.

But through an extensive, multi-year, multi-agency initiative, the University of Arizona' Southwest Institute for Research on Women is working with several community partners to build that structure.

The UA institute, known as SIROW, is at the helm of the initiative, having received a nearly $1.6 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMHSA.

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