ANNAPOLIS, MD—Gov. Wes Moore has launched a $1.6 million grant program aimed at combating substance use in rural communities across Maryland. The program, called Rural Advancement for Maryland Peers (RAMP), will expand and strengthen the state’s workforce of certified peer recovery specialists.
The RAMP program is a partnership between the Maryland Department of Labor and the Maryland Department of Health. It will award grants of up to $200,000 each to organizations that provide free training, certification, and career advancement opportunities for peer recovery specialists.
“Every Marylander knows someone touched by substance use,” Moore said in a press release. “This latest chapter in our work to uplift Marylanders struggling with dependence targets new resources to rural parts of the state—the very communities that have too often gone overlooked and left behind.”…