Kensington Revitalization Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is our best effort to bring all of the necessary services into one centralized hub,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The services include healthcare, shelter, substance abuse treatment, warrant clearance, and diversion programs, among other things. Public Safety Director Adam Geer said the services are not in addition to, but are part of, making the area safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy connecting people to treatment, housing, medical care, and services while also increasing accountability and enforcement, we are actively dismantling the open-air drug market that has harmed Kensington residents for decades,\u201d Greer said.<\/p>\n
Many of the people treated there will arrive after being arrested for low-level offenses and diverted to wellness court, where they have the option of accepting services instead of entering the justice system. <\/p>\n
Geer said that in the last three months, 25 people have been connected to treatment beds through wellness court, but Deputy Police Commissioner Pedro Rosario said he doesn\u2019t measure success by numbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think every person we\u2019re able to save is worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Geer said there\u2019s no center like this anywhere, so it\u2019s a somewhat expensive gamble as to whether it will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia officials cut the ribbon last week on the Kensington Wellness Center, a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74338,95535,8921,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-219081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-addiction-treatment","tag-kensington","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}