Eagle's Nest Recovery House now home to 5

YOUNGSTOWN

The Eagle’s Nest Recovery House, a new long-term addiction recovery facility for adult men, is up and running on Kensington Avenue on the former Cafaro Hospital campus on Youngstown’s North Side.

Operated by Flying High Inc., which took possession of the property last November, Eagle’s Nest accepted its first resident Feb. 20.

Eagle’s Nest was financed with a $24,800 community capital assistance grant from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, an amount matched by the Mahoning County Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ADAS) Board before its recent consolidation with the Mahoning County Mental Health Board to become the Mahoning County Mental Health and Addiction Services Board.

The residence house is owned by Ohio Valley Teen Challenge, which leased it to Flying High Inc. for 99 years. The $24,800 state grant will be amortized over 30 years and be forgiven as long the property is used for the purpose agreed upon, said Brenda Heidinger, executive director of the former ADAS and associate director of the county mental health and recovery board.

It has enough rooms for three individual and two double occupancy rooms, and it was structurally sound and didn’t require any interior construction work, said Jeff Magada, Flying High executive director. There are already five residents, he said.

Read more about the renovations and the program in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.