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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 14, 2022

Some Middle Tennessee families will soon receive assistance to battle addiction and keep children out of foster care, Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. Earlier this week, the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse announced a five-year, $3 million program that will provide intensive, in-home crisis intervention, and life skills education to help parents fight addiction and create better home lives for their children. Funding for the program came via a regional partnership grant through the Federal Administration for Children and Families. The program will operate in nine counties: Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marshall and Maury counties.