Salvo’s gain $500,000 grant
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The Salvation Army’s Bridge House Program has received a $535,000 Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation grant to support the army’s detoxification unit, residential assessment and outreach services.
Bridge House, in Highgate, has a supportive care detoxification unit and sobering up centre as well as a residential assessment centre and an outreach-based community care service.
Latest figures show 6.3 per cent of Western Australians aged 14 and over are drinking at hazardous levels.
This proportion increases in the 20 to 29 year age group to 14 per cent.
Bridge House manager Louisa Timmer said recovery from addiction took, on average, three attempts before long-term success.
"Our Bridge House program has a completion rate of nearly 50 per cent, which is regarded as one of the best in Australia," she said.
Foundation CEO Daryl Smeaton said alcohol and drug misuse had a dramatic effect on individuals, families and communities and cost the WA health system millions of dollars.