Town of Stoneham
Our Purpose
Two years ago the Town of Stoneham proposed the position of the Community Addiction Coordinator to focus on issues within the Town related to substance use. Elle Simoni as the Community Addiction Coordinator is a community resource that helps Stoneham’s residents to meet information and referral services in terms of substance use, prevention and addiction. Goals are to serve community members with dignity, compassion, and confidentiality. Clients range from short term substance abuse/ and or addiction to short term/long term recovery. This year the Office of Prevention and Outreach was formed with the Stoneham's Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Community with two other staff members. One staff member is the Coalition Director focusing on prevention issues within the community. The other staff member is a Youth Coordinator focusing on a peer to peer approach at Stoneham High School in relation to substances. Togehter all three staff members intertwine approaches and ideas to work on common goals and objectives. New initiations this year are to find more grant initiatives for funding in youth prevention, trainings and run community events.