Maryland Community Health Initiatives

Founded in 1993, Maryland Community Health Initiatives is a charity based in Baltimore, United States working on addiction, health, mental health +4 more.

Maryland Community Health Initiatives, Inc., operating as Penn North, is a non-profit providing behavioural health, addiction treatment and recovery services in West Baltimore since 1993. Its Penn North Recovery Center offers outpatient and intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment certified by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, acupuncture-based treatment, counselling, and free recovery support. It also runs a supportive housing programme for adults in recovery, job readiness and placement services, GED and computer classes, and the Kids Safe Zone after-school programme for children. Services are free of charge, with a sliding fee schedule available, and no one is denied access due to inability to pay. The centre serves the Sandtown-Winchester, Penn North and surrounding neighbourhoods, which have high rates of unemployment, poverty and violent crime.