Groups across the Commonwealth have been working to increase access to harm reduction services.
Latosha Perry, executive director of the Louisville-based nonprofit EmpowHer with Open Arms, said her organization provides prevention services to adolescents as well as group and individual therapy for adults who are typically required to be in therapy in order to see their children.
“Some struggling with addiction or just now coming out of incarceration, they don’t have the money to cover those expenses,” Perry explained. “It typically decreases the rate of them reunifying with their family.”…