PA Treatment and Healingwill have a little extra financial help to better serve its clients.

Recently, the not-for-profit organization was named the 2016 Carbon County Interagency and Family Collaborative Board's grant recipient. The grant is worth $500 and can be used to help a program that works to help Carbon County residents.Mindy Graver, treasurer of the IAFC, presented the grant after the seventh annual Human Services Priority Breakfast last week.Before naming PA Treatment and Healing as the winner, Graver said it was a hard decision because all of the applicants were very deserving.Jessica Hansen, lead drug and alcohol counselor for PATH, accepted the grant.PATH is a licensed nonprofit outpatient drug and alcohol program on Fourth Street in Lehighton.It provides intervention for youths and their families and serves families, mental health agencies, Children and Youth Services, the Carbon County juvenile and adult probation offices, and inpatient drug and alcohol treatment centers.PATH operates in 17 counties and serves over 60 school districts in north and central Pennsylvania.Its program, called Reflections, uses a therapeutic approach in counseling those with either a primary substance abuse diagnosis or codependents.The grant will help PATH purchase education materials for clients, informational posters for their office and handouts on various drugs of abuse; as well as update furniture in the office for the clients.For more information on PATH, visit

http://pathtochange.org.