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Center CARE Recovery
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Since its inception, the Center has been the primary resource in
addressing the consistently high rate of alcoholism and drug abuse
within our population and the lack of LGBT supportive or affirmative
services to address this disparity. Three thousand clients of all
backgrounds use Center Counseling, Advocacy, Recovery and Education
(Center CARE) annually, which offers low-cost/no cost professional
counseling and social services for substance abuse and recovery
support, and related HIV/AIDS, mental health and gender identity
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HISTORY OF CENTER CARE RECOVERY
Founded in 1983, the Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center of New York City (the Center) today is recognized as the comprehensive, community-based organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities of the greater New York area, offering a range of services, activities and programs. Since its inception, the Center has been the focal point and the touchstone for many local and national organizing efforts and program initiatives that benefit the LGBT communities. In the 1980s, the Center was the meeting place that led to the formation of Gay Men's Health Crisis, the first AIDS organization in the country; for ACTUP, which became the national AIDS organizing entity; for the Quilt Workshop, which became the National AIDS Memorial Quilt; for Promote The Vote, which is now the largest LGBT voter registration and mobilization project in the US.The Center brings LGBT people out of isolation and connects them to proactive, healthy and affirmative services and activities. In the tradition of the Center’s commitment to fostering empowerment, Center programs offer LGBT persons invaluable opportunities to discover who they are in an atmosphere of self-acceptance and support; to come together and build community to end stigma and prejudice; to celebrate LGBT culture and identity. Locally, 6,000 persons use the Center each week, with an estimated 2000 attending 80 12-step groups each week and 4,000 persons attending over 200 weekly groups, such as the Single Lesbian Support Group, Gay Fathers and the Zappalorti Society for LGBT mental health recipients.
Over 1,000 adolescents participate in our LGBT youth prevention program. Center services reaches all ethnic, gender and socio-economic groups, and reflects the diversity of New York City and its LGBT residents.
In 1987, the Center started the first alcohol and drug prevention program in New York State, and one of the first in the country, to address the pervasive problem of substance abuse in the LGBT communities. Then called Project Connect, the program initially developed as a peer recovery support model that depended upon consumers of its services, volunteers in recovery and LGBT-identified care professionals to provide its vision, to implement its activities and to develop its strategies. In 1998, the Center sought to enhance its ability to engage and utilize its recovering constituents and build upon the work that Project Connect and the Center had already done in assisting and supporting recovery in the LGBT communities through developing a structure through which people in recovery could come together to define issues, to develop strategies for education and support and to create and implement an unified message to carry to policymakers and treatment providers to insure that lesbians, gay men, transgender and bisexual persons, and all those in need of recovery, had equal, fair and affirmative access to quality services. SpeakOUT:LGBT Voices for Recovery organized constituents to educate City and State government agencies and policy makers on the need to comprehensively serve LGBT communities through prevention, treatment and training initiatives; forged collaborative relationships and alliances with other local and statewide efforts to deal more effectively with multiple issues of stigma, identity and the intersection of stigma eradication with recovery education and advocacy.
After SAMHSA refocused the RCSP initiative in 2001, from education and advocacy to more direct provision of peer-delivered support services, SpeakOUT refocused on creating and implementing new support activities including a range of topic-oriented peer-led recovery support groups for LGBT people in longer-term recovery; a mentoring project for the newly recovering; and development of monthly recovery cultural events and social activities such as: Artists in Recovery Exhibitions; Women of Color Games Night; Recovery Pow-Wows; a monthly cable TV show dedicated to LGBT Recovery and produced by SpeakOUT volunteers. At the end of the final grant cycle for SpeakOUT, the Center had woven the recovery-oriented cultural and social activities into its regular offerings and Center CARE resources were directed to development of a NYS-licensed, LGBT-identified, professional prevention and treatment program, a facility critically needed in the New York Metropolitan area and something the Center was on track to provide.
As a result of this intense focus on substance abuse prevention and treatment over the course of the past 15 years, a series of “best practices” have been developed at the Center for delivering health care and prevention services within the LGBT communities. These include models that address the following concepts or approaches: developmental stages of transgender participants, trauma recovery from experiences of harassment and discrimination, healing of losses experienced as a result of LGBT identity, community building , and the transtheoretical stages of behavioral change.
The Center’s track record with Project Connect, the development of its Gender Identity Project, modeled on Project Connect, as the first transgender peer support services program in the country, and the SpeakOUT Project have provided the Center with a solid foundation and on which to expand and enhance services to meet to address the emerging recovery needs of the LGBT communities in the greater metropolitan area, the growth of the LGBT communities in NYC in general and the transgender-identified recovery community in particular. The Center’s partner relationship with several new, LGBT-oriented grassroots recovery efforts, such as Chelsea Clubhouse and the Transgender Health Project, will enable development of peer-led and peer–directed services to these populations in need.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
To provide lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender sensitive and affirmative assessment, substance abuse/dependency treatment, relapse prevention, and referral services to individuals, couples, and groups.
SERVICES:
To provide lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their families with sensitive and affirmative substance abuse/dependency services in a community context
- Screening and referrals to appropriate LGBT sensitive providers
- Assessment, treatment and relapse prevention
- Medical screenings and psychiatric evaluations
- Medication management
- Individual counseling
- Couple counseling
- Family counseling (Family of choice, families of origin & alternative families)
- Support Groups
SUPPORT GROUPS:
CENTER CARE RECOVERY GROUP SERVICES
Center Care Recovery is
offering group services to help assist client’s in making healthier and
safer self-care choices. Clients will have a short orientation period
where they will learn about the program, the purpose and goals of the
group that they will be participating in while at Center CARE Recovery.
Some of the main groups will are described below:
ALCOHOL/DRUG EDUCATION:
The overall purpose of this group is to educate clients on the harmful
effects of alcohol and other drug substances on the body and the brain.
The goal of the group is to support the client’s efforts in making
healthier and safer choices for themselves and to improve the quality
of their lives.
PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION:
The purpose of this group is education, support and prevention of
exposure, and/or spread of infectious diseases. The goal of the group
is to increase awareness, inform group participants of accessible
medical services and to encourage improved self care habits.
RELATIONSHIPS GROUP:
The purpose of this group is to define and explore the relationship
issues experienced by the group participants, and how they have been
affected by the client’s substance abuse. The primary goal of the group
is to develop positive coping skills in addressing the issues in
relationships specific to the LGBT Community.
RELAPSE PREVENTION:
The purpose of this group is to educate and assist group members in
developing positive coping strategies, and in developing a sober
support system. The goal of the group is to increase and support group
participant’s ability to maintain total abstinence from all mood
altering substances.
PERSONAL WELLNESS:
The purpose of this group is to explore and process the feelings of
group members as it relates to their self esteem and self worth. The
group will also review the connection between substance abuse and other
self destructive behavioral patterns. The overall goal of the group is
improving self image, building peer support, positive self affirmation,
and to promote an improved quality of life.
GAMBLING ADDICTION
The purpose of the group is to educate and support clients around problem and pathological gambling.
The goal of the group is to develop positive coping skills and a
support system to help clients recover from and cope with the impact of
gambling on their families, friends, partners, employers and
interpersonal skills.
NICOTINE CESSATION
This is a psycho-educational group. The purpose of this group is
assessment, education, and support to help promote healthier choices
for those that are addicted to tobacco products. The overall goal of
the group is to develop positive coping strategies and help group
members gain support in their efforts to maintain abstinence from
tobacco products.
CONTACTS
Email: recovery@gaycenter.org
Carole Henry CASAC.
Counselor – Health Care Coordinator
chenry@gaycenter.org
212-620-7310 Ext 251
Celeste Bowman CASAC.
Counselor
cbowman@gaycenter.org
212-620-7310 Ext 402
Shane Spicer MD.
Medical Director
sspicer@gaycenter.org
212-620-7310 Ext 230
Andrés Hoyos MS, LMSW.
Director of Center CARE Recovery
ahoyos@gaycenter.org
212-620-7310 Ext 253
Nilda Casiano CASAC-T
LIU Social Work Admin.-Intern
ncasiano@gaycenter.org
212-620-7310 Ext 211
FAQs
- Payment: Medicaid – Sliding Scale
- Who is a potential client?18 years or older: Substance Abuse / Dependence – Significant other – In recovery
- How to get services: call or walk-in and ask for Center CARE Recovery (Kim, Carole, or Andres)
- Can someone get services in prevention and the treatment programs? Yes
- For how long would people get treatment at CCR? Approximately 6 months, with the first two months being more intensive. This is arraged on a case-by-case basis.
- Are services at CCR free for people living with HIV/AIDS as they are at the prevention program? No.
- Do we provide services for heterosexual people? Yes.
- Now that we have a physician on site, are we providing HIV tests or other medically related services? No
- Can other people who are not clients of CCR get services with the doctor? No.
EN ESPANOL
The Lesbian, Gay,
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (El Centro) presenta Center CARE Recovery - un nuevo programa de tratamiento ambulatorio de la dependencia y/o abuso de sustancias en la ciudad de Nueva York, específicamente diseñado para las comunidades LGBT.
- Consejería individual, familiar y en
grupo;
- Educación acerca del alcoholismo y la
drogodependencia;
- Prevención de VIH, educación y
recomendaciones a otros servicios;
- Actividades preparatorias de
formación profesional y desarrollo de habilidades;
- Programas educativos sobre el
tabaquismo y para de fumar;
- Servicios para fomentar la salud y el
bienestar, incluso para los trastornos psiquiátricos y mentales;
- y servicios para los seres queridos.
Center CARE
Recovery acepta Medicaid y seguros privados y ofrece también opciones de pagos
flexibles.
El Centro es un sitio seguro para la comunidad lesbiana, gay, bisexual y trasnsgénero en Nueva York. Se reúnen 300 grupos distintos LGBT, incluyendo más de 80 sesiones semanales de los programas12 pasos, haciendo del Centro el eje de la vida comunitaria LGBT y una encrucijada donde se reúnen 6.000 personas cada semana. Debido a que el Centro ha brindado servicios para la prevención de la drogodependencia desde hace casi 20 años, este sitio es uno de los únicos capacitados para proporcionar servicios multiculturales de tratamiento ambulatorio de drogodependencia a su comunidad.
Dado que se ubica dentro del Centro, los clientes de Center CARE Recovery se asocian con las mayores comunidades LGBT mayores organizadas. Tal acceso fomenta un sentido de empoderamiento y la oportunidad de participar activamente en los eventos comunitarios, así como utilizar los innumerables recursos del Centro, tales como:
- cíbercentro de tecnología más
avanzada;
- Capacitación de procesamiento de
textos (word processing), preparación del currículo vitae y actividades
pertinentes a la búsqueda de trabajos en la red;
- The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library-la
mayor biblioteca circulante de materiales LGBT en Nueva York;
- Clases de GED y ESL
- y una gran variedad de programas y actividades culturales, bailes sin alcohol y muchas otras oportunidades de participación comunitaria.
El Centro ha proporcionado servicios de consejería a la comunidad LGBT para la prevención de la drogodependencia desde 1987, de acuerdo con The New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) [la oficina estatal de alcoholismo y drogodependencia]. Además, desde 2001, el Centro ha gestionado un programa autorizado de OASAS de consejería para la prevención. Tal programa es una subdivisión del programa mayor conocido como Center CARE, que brinda servicios sociales a adultos.
- VIH/SIDA
- Salir del Clóset
- Inmigrantes LGBT
- Aflicción
- Reducción de Daño
- Identidad de Género
- Cáncer en Lesbianas
- Dejar de Fumar
Para obtener más información o fijar una cita para una evaluación/admisión, por favor llame al Centro al.....
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The Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual & Transgender Community Center estimula el bienestar personal, la
expresión creativa y la transformación social por medio de los servicios
sociales, actividades culturales e iniciativas de defensa LGBT más amplias del
mundo.
Inserto
CENTER CARE
RECOVERY “Un programa diseñado para el tratamiento y ayuda n contra del abuso
del consumo de , para la comunidad lesbica, homosexual, bisexual y transgenero”.
El centro LGBT es
un lugar seguro y confidencial para la comunidad lesbica, homosexual, bisexual
y transgenero en la ciudad de Nueva York. Alberga 300 diferentes grupos para la
comunidad LGBT, incluyendo 80 reuniones semanales de grupos de 12-pasos. El
centro es un espacio para la comunidad LGBT, semanalmente el centro recibe 6000
personas. Con una experiencia de casi 20 años proveyendo servicios de
prevención del abuso para las personas LGBT.
Además, nuestro centro no solamente vela por
la salud y el bienestar de nuestra comunidad LGBT, también desarrollamos
actividades culturales que ayudan al bienestar de nuestra comunidad. El centro
también inspira a nuestra comunidad LGBT en Nueva York a seguir viviendo
orgullosamente nuestra identidad, donde además les damos fuerzas para ser lo
que quieren ser y transformar nuestro mundo.
The Center CARE Recovery...
...es un nuevo
programa ambulatorio para el tratamiento de la dependencia química que contara
con supervisión medica, que emplea el modelo de abstinencia e incorpora una
amplia gama de servicios holísticos, incluyendo:
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consejería
individual, grupal o familiar;
- educación
acerca del abuso de alcohol y otras sustancias;
- servicios
de educación, prevención y referidos acerca del VIH;
-
educación
acerca del tabaquismo y programas de ayuda dejar de fumar;
- servicios
médicos, psiquiátricos y otros servicios de salud y bienestar;
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y servicios
para nuestros seres queridos.
- VIH/SIDA
- Inmigrantes LGBT.
- Cáncer en la población lesbica.
- Auto-aceptación de su orientación sexual.
- Servicios para dejar de fumar.
Center CARE cuenta con profesionales licenciados por el estado de Nueva
York.
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