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a is a swinging door situation where the inebriates are only treated a few days and then released to go right back on the street. The distance from Vero Beach also poses a severe transportation problem. They recommend highly that a local detoxification center be set up here in Indian River County. Some years ago one was set up with Alco -Hope and that facility is presently being used as a half -way house for rehabilitating alcoholics. problem. This would eliminate the transportation It is also felt that there is a great need in Indian River County for a shelter for vagrants and transients passing through town, who are now sleeping under our park benches and in shopping center dumpsters, and the Committee received assurances from representatives of the Salvation Army and Christ is the Answer Mission (C.I.T.A. in Melbourne) that they would be willing to operate such a shelter if an appropriate location, such as a house or store, was made available to them. The Committee strongly urges the County to consider making such a facility available or funds to enable these organizations to open a shelter for homeless men and women, making one room in the facility available for families in the County who are in distress, such as being burned out of their homes, etc. Mrs. Runge then spoke of the difficulty the Committee encountered in obtaining information or participation from many of the various governmental entities and stated the Committee feels that the County needs more representation on the District 9 Mental Health Board in order to receive our fair share of the funds. Various members of the Commission informed Mrs. Runge of the fact that the Commission has been unsuccessful in their efforts to be allowed more representation on the District 9 Mental Health Board, of the difficulty in finding 27 APR 2 0.1983 wK 55.3 ?AcE 255 A