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From YouTube: Building the Road to Recovery Groundbreaking
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At the Dimock Center in Roxbury, Mayor Walsh and Gov. Baker offer remarks at the groundbreaking for Building the Road to Recovery.
A
A
I
like
to
welcome
everyone,
my
name
is
Maya
Sherman
to
Jordan
I'm,
the
president
CEO
of
endemic
center,
and
I'd
like
to
welcome
you
to
our
groundbreaking
ceremony
for
the
dr.
Lucy
Sewell
Center,
for
acute
treatment
services.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
at
this
is
on
this
historic
day
for
the
demux
enter
in
our
community.
One
year
ago,
at
our
28th
stepping
out
in
response
to
the
statewide
opioid
epidemic,
we
publicly
launched
our
building
the
road
to
recovery
capital
campaign
to
rebuild
and
expand
our
inpatient
detox
facility.
A
We
set
an
initial
ambitious
goal
to
raise
15
million
dollars
for
a
full
gut
renovation
and
expansion
of
our
historic
school
building,
critically
needed
work
on
this
beautiful
building.
There
was
a
great
sense
of
urgency
to
do
this
work
to
help
save
lives
of
our
children,
parents,
friends
and
colleagues.
As
we
all
know,
substance
use
disorder
affects
everyone
and
does
not
discriminate.
A
A
A
Five-Million-Dollar
commonwealth
of
massachusetts
appropriations,
five
million
dollars
in
new
market
tax
credit
allocations
from
mass
development
and
capital,
one
community
renewal
fund
with
capital
one
serving
as
tax
credit
investor.
All
23
members
of
our
community
foundation
board
are
three
Hospital
partners:
beth,
israel,
deaconess
medical
center,
boston,
medical
center
and
partners,
many
dedicated
first
time,
individual
corporate
and
foundation
supporters
and
longtime
different
friends
who
made
incredibly
generous
gifts
with
all
of
your
support.
A
We
have
begun
the
intensive
work,
as
you
see
behind
me,
to
painstakingly
and
lovingly
upgrade,
expand
and
transform
our
school
building
to
be
the
home
of
the
new
doctor,
lucy
school
center
for
acute
treatment
services.
As
we
look
at
the
building
and
think
about
renderings
of
its
future,
I
like
to
recognize
our
project:
architects,
the
firm
of
platte
anderson
and
freeman
and
john
freeman,
who
is
here
today
in
the
back.
A
Thank
you.
I'd
also
like
to
thank
our
contractor
Timberline
construction
company
and
Stephen
Kelly
who's.
Also
with
us.
Both
firms
have
deep
ties
to
demic
and
we
are
so
grateful.
They
are
partnering
with
us
for
this
important
work
in
approximately
18
months.
Right
Stephen.
We
will
be
able
to
serve
4,000
people
annually
an
increase
of
over
1,000.
Over
our
current
capacity.
We
will
ensure
that
1,000,
more
men
and
women
from
our
neighborhood
and
Beyond
are
able
to
get
outstanding
care
and
attention
a
foundation
for
long-term
recovery.
A
A
new
center
will
also
house
our
outpatient
services
supporting
an
important
transition
in
our
continuum
of
care.
Thank
you
again
for
helping
demic
to
reach
this
milestone.
We're
honored
to
have
here
governor
Baker,
mayor,
Walsh,
Jim
Healy,
president
of
the
yaki
foundations
with
us
this
morning
for
a
ceremony
before
I
invite
each
of
them
to
speak.
I'd
also
like
to
invite
our
Board
Chair
Flass
wiring,
to
come
up
and
make
a
few
comments.
B
Wow,
this
is
really
something
and
part
of
a
really
150
years,
nation
of
continuing
development
right
here
on
this
hill
in
Roxbury,
and
we
are
so
very
happy
to
be
a
part
of
the
latest
iteration
and
a
lot
of
that
has
been
made
possible
by
you.
You,
gentlemen,
that
are
sitting
out
there
and
we
thank
you
for
your
help.
B
I
just
wanted
to
say
one
thing
on
behalf
of
the
board:
it
is
such
a
resounding
affirmation
to
sit
and
think
about
and
have
a
vision
of
what
could
be
in
terms
of
service
to
this
community
and
to
plan
and
to
raise
the
funds
and
and
to
make
all
that
happen,
and,
of
course,
our
team
leader
here
has
very
very
integral
to
that
that
process
very
lucky
to
have
her,
but
it
is
so
very
rewarding
as
a
board
member
to
see
this
come
to
fruition.
So
thank
you
very
much.
A
C
Well,
first
of
all,
let
me
just
start
by
congratulating
the
board
and
the
management
team
and
the
and
the
folks
here
at
Dimmick
for
a
tremendously
successful
effort
to
build
on
what,
if
/
pointed
out,
is
over
a
century's
worth
of
important
and
significant
work
here
in
this
community
on
behalf
of
people
who
need
services
and
support
and
I'm
going
to
be
very
brief.
I'm
just
going
to
say
three
things
at
first.
Is
people
talk
a
lot
about?
C
You
can't
get
results
until
you
have
resources?
Well,
the
reserve.
The
reverse
of
this
is
also
true,
which
is
people
who
generate
results
over
and
over
and
over
again
over
a
long
period
of
time
to
dirt
to
develop
a
reputation
where
it
becomes
easier,
as
in
some
cases
it
probably
should
be
to
access
resources
and
shook
hands
with
Jackie
Jenkins
Scott
a
little
earlier
who
I
used
to
work
with
back
in
the
90s
when
I
was
working
for
bill
weld
and
Paul
Cellucci.
C
Who
did
tremendous
work
here
is
the
leader
of
demux
for
many
years,
with
her
leadership
team
in
serving
this
community
and
serving
the
city
of
Boston.
I
then
spent
some
time
getting
to
know
almost
all
of
the
programs
that
were
associated
with
this
campus,
and
this
is
about
as
full
service
of
place
as
you're,
going
to
find
in
any
community
anywhere
in
the
Commonwealth.
C
C
Fifty
sixty
percent,
since
we
took
office
over
the
course
of
the
past
couple
of
years,
we've
had
tremendous
work,
that's
been
done
in
prevention,
education,
intervention
treatment
and
recovery,
but
we
all
know,
based
on
what
we
see
every
single
day,
that
this
problem,
especially
on
the
opioid
side,
has
tremendous
negative
momentum
and
breaking
that
trend
is
going
to
require
time,
imagination,
creativity
and
investment,
and
this
has
a
little
bit
of
all
of
those
things
wrapped
up
in
it.
Money
should
talk
briefly
about
the
fact
that
this
is
part
of
their
continuum
of
care.
C
Here
in
the
city
of
Boston
and
the
Commonwealth
amass
again,
congratulations
and
I
also
I,
don't
know
what
my
secretary
of
health
and
human
services
seven.
She
was
in
meeting
with
your
board
and
your
leadership
team,
but
I
tried
very
hard,
not
to
say
anything
that
would
contradict
whatever
it
was
that
she
said,
because
she
does
represent
fifty-three
percent
of
state
government,
which
she
reminds
me
all.
The
time.
C
C
We
are,
we
are
very
fond
of
this
place
of
its
history
and
its
commitment
to
this
community
and
to
its
ability,
over
and
over
over
again
to
deliver
excellence
to
the
people
that
it
serves
and
we're
proud
to
be
part
of
this
initiative,
and
we
look
forward
to
the
opening
of
the
facility
some
18
months
from
now.
Congratulations.
D
Thanks
guys-
and
it's
great
to
be
here
today,
I
want
a
while
first
of
all
congratulate
dr.
Minter
Jordan,
my
first
meeting
as
mayor
of
the
city
of
Boston.
With
her
she
was
talking.
We
twitted,
we
did
a
tour
walking
to
a
altima
canned.
We
had
a
chance
to
see
the
halfway
houses
and
the
detox
and
programs,
and
then
she
walked
here,
and
she
said
this
is.
This
is
my
dream.
This
is
what
we're
going
to
do.
We're
going
to
turn
this
building
around
and
I
want
to
congratulate
you
on
your
accomplishment
in
your
dream.
D
I
want
to
thank
you.
Flash
I
want
to
thank
bob
rivers.
I
want
to
thank
the
entire
board,
feel
great
work
here
and
get
raising
the
money
and
being
here
today.
It's
such
a
really
quick
piece,
quick
turnover
I,
want
to
thank
you
for
that.
Mary
lucetta's
I
want
to
thank
Mary
Lou
as
well.
I
had
the
chance
to
work
at
Mary
Lou
back
when
I
was
a
representative
when
she
was
in
the
administration
a
long
time
ago,
and
now,
as
a
secretary
position,
she's
a
great
partner
in
governor's.
D
D
I
just
wanted
to
say
thank
you,
because
every
single
one
of
them
in
their
own
ways
involved
in
recovery,
whether
it's
at
the
Statehouse
fighting
for
funding,
whether
it's
in
the
City
Council
fighting
for
funding
I
want
to
thank
them
all
we're
joined
by
two
members
of
the
state
Senate
senator
Linda,
dorcena
Forry
s
with
us
in
state
senator
john
keenan
from
quincy,
who
is
a
champion
in
recovery.
Thank
you
very
much.
D
We
have
three
members
legislature.
We
have
representative
china,
tyler
newly
elected
Thank,
You
representative
feel
great
work
and
you're
going
to
be
doing
great
work.
State
representative,
Jeffrey
Sanchez,
was
doing
this
for
a
long
time
on
health
care,
financing
and
policy
I.
Also,
honorable
sheesh
I
didn't
see
her
come
in,
but
I
want
to
mention,
because
I
know
she'll
probably
will
be
coming
all
those
years.
State
represented
is
my
who
is
the
champion,
and
I
had
many
great
pipes
that
lives
together.
D
Fighting
for
recovery
services,
John
Keenan
just
reminded
me
of
one
lives
in
the
budget
debate
where
we're
getting
the
patrician.
The
first
run
of
the
prescription
monitoring
program
where
we
might
have
threatened
to
shut
the
place
down
and
we
got
it
1115
that
night
I
want
to.
Thank
you.
We
have
some
city
councilors
here.
I
want
to
thank
city
concert,
nistro
sabe
George's
here
I
want
to
thank
you
and
I
didn't
see
him,
but
I
think
city
comes
Latino.
Jackson
is
here
as
well
somewhere
and
any
other
councilors.
D
D
150
years
as
flash
Wiley
said,
this
campus
has
been
doing
incredible
things
150
years
when
you
start
to
look
around
in
our
world
today.
Not
many
institutions
are
around
that
long.
In
this
institution,
demic
has
provided
health
care
in
a
safety
net.
For
so
many
different
people,
affordable
care,
primary
care.
Doctors
are
here:
mental
health
professionals,
social
service
providers
or
working
this
treatment
center
behind
us
I
was
just
sitting
listening
and
thinking
about
what
do
you
say,
and
today
and
yesterday
and
tomorrow
there
are
people
sitting
in
their
homes
they're
in
a
dark
place.
D
The
shades
are
drawn.
The
windows
are
closed.
They
have
no.
They
feel
that
there's
no
one
that
loves
them
and
what
helps
them
out
of
that
is
a
building
like
we're
doing
here
today,
because
when
people
walk
through
this
door
here
they're
going
to
think
their
life
is
over
they're
going
to
think
they
have
no
place
to
turn.
They
don't
want
to
talk
to
their
normal
to
do
and
they're
not
going
to
realize
when
they
walk
out
of
this
door
when
they
leave
their
treatment
facility.
D
What
the
opportunity,
what
the
potential
is,
there's
a
potential
that
someday
some
young
person
is
going
to
walk
through
this
door,
thinking
that
their
life
is
over
they're,
going
to
walk
out
and
someday
they're
going
to
be
the
mayor
of
the
city
of
Boston,
there's
going
to
be
other
people,
there
is
other
people
that
are
going
to
walk
through
the
store
and
come
out
and
they
might
run
the
n-double-a-cp
I
see
Michael
Carey.
Here
they
might
be
a
president
of
a
bank,
they
might
be
the
chair
of
the
board.
D
They
might
be
a
state
representative
that
might
just
be
somebody
who
works
for
public
works
department
and
is
able
to
raise
their
family.
So
I
want
to
thank
everyone
here
today.
Financially,
who
made
this
possible.
This
is
more
than
a
renovation.
This
is
more
than
a
renovation
that
were
happening
here
today.
Dr.
Jordan
understands
that
the
board
here
understands
that
the
council
is
the
clinicians.
The
Social
Work
is
the
folks
that
have
graduated
the
halfway
house
across
the
street.
D
Here,
the
folks
at
of
walk
through
the
door
know
how
important
this
is,
and
what
this
means
I
want
to.
Thank
the
governor
in
the
legislature
for
the
funding
that
they
provided
to
recovery
services
when
we
think
about
what's
going
on
in
the
world.
We
spent
a
lot
of
time
in
this
week.
We
have
a
presidential
inauguration
on
Friday
and
with
the
dependents,
are
going
back
and
forth
talking
about
how
bad
it
is
or
how
good
it
is
or
what's
going
to
happen.
But
really
what
happens
is
the
work
that
happens
on
the
ground.
D
It
doesn't
really
matter
what
the
conversations
are
all
about.
It's
what
the
work
happens
on
the
ground
and
what
we're
doing
here
today
is
a
new
beginning,
a
new
beginning
for
this
building
and
a
new
beginning
for
demek
to
be
able
to
continue
to
drag
move
forward
and
bring
the
bring
the
process
they've
shown
and
bring
the
services
they
want
to
the
streets.
When
dr.
Jordan
took
me
around
him,
we
walked
through
here.
D
I
could
see
in
her
face
the
joy
that
she
had
and
what
was
kind
of
happened
here
and
she
said
to
me:
I
would
like
to
do
it
sooner
rather
than
later,
but
I
don't
know
if
she
fully
mental
wanted
to
make
it
happen
within
three
years.
So
when
you
think
about
what's
happened
here,
it
absolutely
is
incredible:
what's
happened
here
in
three
years?
D
The
last
thing
I
just
want
to
say
is
when
somebody
comes
on
this
campus
and
they
walk
in
this
building.
They
get
the
treatment,
it
doesn't
mean
their
treatment
ends
when
they
leave,
because
it's
going
to
be
wraparound
services
in
this
place
and
they
can
go
across
the
street
to
a
halfway
house
or
they
can
go
to
job
training
on
this
campus.
This
campus
does
at
all.
We
are
very
fortunate
to
have
the
demux
enter,
not
just
in
the
city
of
Boston,
but
in
the
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts.
Thank
you
very
much.
E
Thank
You
Manisha
and
thank
you,
governor
Baker,
Romero
walsh,
be
a
wonderful
support
and
enthusiasm
for
demak
when
the
yaki
foundation
learned
about
the
significant
needs
for
the
civil
building
were
immediately
struck
by
the
incredible
potential
of
this
project.
We
envision
a
building
that
is
beautiful
and
welcoming
in
its
layout
and
its
amenities
and
efficiently
designed
to
maximize
space
to
ensure
the
highest
quality
of
treatment
for
its
patients.
E
We
also
envisioned
the
impact
of
the
work
being
done
within
its
walls.
Each
day,
life-saving
work,
the
Yaqui
foundation,
support
of
building
the
road
to
recovery
representative
special
moment
and
our
relationship
with
the
Demyx
center
in
1988
Jean
Yawkey
directed
the
Red
Sox
to
support
demica
seven
out,
including
have
the
rich
having
the
Red
Sox.
Vice
president
Elaine
stupid
chair
the
event
in
1990,
the
support
from
the
Red
Sox
yaki
ownership
continued
until
the
team
was
sold.
The
Foundation's
ties
with
demek
began
25
years
ago
and
have
only
grown
stronger
over
the
decades.
E
The
Demyx
enter
and
its
leaders
have
a
keen
understanding
of
the
needs
of
our
community
and
continually
evolve
their
programs
and
efforts
to
respond
to
these
needs.
The
dem
exceda
was
founded
in
1862
as
the
New
England
hospital
for
women
and
children.
Dr.
Lucy
Sewell
came
to
the
hospital
in
1863,
became
director
in
eighteen,
sixty
nine
and
was
the
director
when
this
building
was
built
in
eighteen.
Eighty,
dr.
E
Sewell
pioneered
the
training
of
women
in
medicine
and
devoted
much
of
her
medical
practice
to
the
care
of
disadvantaged
women
and
children
in
Boston,
we
were
inspired
to
name
the
new
inpatient
detoxification
center
for
dr.
Lucy
soul,
a
demiclone
air
and
leader
whose
work
on
this
campus
in
its
earliest
aids
was
indeed
transformative.
On
behalf
of
the
trustees,
the
Yaqui
foundation,
we
are
thrilled
and
honored
to
be
part
of
the
historic
moment,
authentic,
congratulations
to
Maya
and
the
board
for
your
wonderful
milestone.