PRESS RELEASE – An additional $112,170 to be used for recovery housing was received by the Four County ADAMhs Board at its December 11 meeting.
The money was distributed by the Ohio Department of Development’s office of housing support to provide stable, transitional housing for individuals in recovery from a substance use disorder.
ADAMhs Board CEO Tonie Long explained the funds will be used by Recovery Services of Northwest Ohio and OhioGuidestone to support women and men in their transitional housing programs through the end of the current fiscal year (June 30, 2026). The additional funds bring the total amount of funding for recovery housing this year to $216,122.
The board also approved a $6,120 contract with Secure Telehealth to provide secure telemedicine visits for patients funded by the board as well as video conferencing.
Long told the board that she and other staff members continue to follow all pending state legislation and initiatives that would affect property tax revenue for governmental districts that rely on the funds to support services.
She explained that the ADAMhs Board receives a little more than $4 million annually from two seven-tenths mill property taxes that are collected to support behavioral health services in Defiance, Fulton, Henry and Williams counties for lower income residents. Each tax is collected for five years.
Together, the two taxes provide 51 percent of the board’s budget, which is used to support mental health, addiction and family violence services.
The property taxes were originally approved in the 1980s and have been continuously approved by voters every five years since then.