Mercy House Grand Opening

Special Event Permit #SE-210010
Mercy House
Mercy House
Event Date: 
Friday, May 14, 2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm

Address

Mercy House Recovery Center
45 West High Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325
United States

Donors, friends, concerned citizens, and public figures gathered this morning for the groundbreaking of the new Mercy House Recovery Center facility at 45 W. High St, Gettysburg.

The Mercy House will be the first substance abuse recovery center in Adams County.  The facility will have public space for clients and residents to receive information, counseling, and other addiction services. 

The facility will also house seven adult men in recovery, where they will receive peer counseling, affordable housing, career assistance, and other services designed to help them break their addictions.

The project is funded in part by donations and grants of $965,000.

In his invocation, Pastor Michael Allwein said the building would be a “beacon of hope.”

“We all have been affected by drug abuse,” said Adams County Commissioner Marty Qually. The goal of the project is to “empower individuals fighting addiction.”

Basic life skills will be learned as we use science to fight the cartels’ deadliest drugs,” said Qually. “We have the will to begin this project but we need each of you to spread the word that we are fighting back and there is hope.”

A visibly emotional County Commissioner Jim Martin said “your level of interest will be key in where this project goes.” Martin enumerated the many programs the county has funded to fight the opioid epidemic including a new Vivitrol® treatment program and the recent hire of a county drug, alcohol, and mental health case manager. These efforts “position us one step closer to winning the war on addiction,” said Martin.

Michael, Boyer, representing the Recovery, Advocacy, Service, and Empowerment (RASE) Project which will be managing Mercy House said “it fills me with so much pride to celebrate the reopening of this house.” Our goal is to “return productive and useful people.”

Adams County Commissioner Randy Phiel said he was “about as emotional as he’d ever been.” The project is a “testament to the generosity of this community. It’s a project “the board has been passionate about. The goal is to “slay the curse of addiction,” he said.

The speakers addressed the room from the Eisenhower podium, lent for the occasion by the Adams County Historical Society.