Boston Scenes 01-26-2017

Mayor Martin Walsh and City Councilor Andrea Campbell join Vietnamese community members at Viet Aid’s Fields Corner office in celebration of Tet, Vietnamese Lunar New Year.

From left to right: Flash Wiley, Dimock Community Foundation board chair; Governor Charlie Baker; Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders; Myechia Minter-Jordan, M.D., president and CEO of The Dimock Center; Mayor Martin J. Walsh; and Jim Healey, president and trustee of the Yawkey Foundations break ground on Tuesday, Jan. 17 on the Dr. Lucy Sewall Center for Acute Treatment Services, a state-of-the-art renovation project to restore The Dimock Center’s aging detoxification facility and strengthen its comprehensive substance use disorder treatment services. The milestone event is the result of a successful $16 million capital campaign Building the Road to Recovery. The Dimock Center houses one of only three inpatient detox facilities in Boston and one of 30 in the state, offering addiction recovery services for men and women throughout the commonwealth. The renovation will increase its inpatient acute treatment beds from 30 to 40, reaching an additional 1,000 people annually for a total of 4,000 patients served each year.