Adding Recovery Professionals to the Continuum of Care

• By: Ruth Riddick The Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAP)
• July 1st, 2019
• addiction recovery, building recovery capital, continuum of care, life skills, peer support, recovery, recovery coaching, substance use disorder
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What is the purpose of our work, of all the prevention, intervention and therapy, all that merciful medical model and multi-volume DSM? The treatment plans? Aftercare? All this helping apparatus – what’s it for? Now, the agreed response is that “recovery” is our mutual goal irrespective...

The Step-Up Intervention Program: A Positive Youth Development Approach to Support Youth Experiencing Housing Instability and Homelessness

• By: Zoila A. Del-Villar, LMHC-Limited Permit, CASAC McSilver Institute of Poverty Policy and Research
• October 1st, 2017
• housing instability, life skills, mental health support, mentorship, positive youth development, school-based support, youth engagement, youth homelessness
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Housing instability and homelessness can be defined by frequent moves, couch-surfing, eviction, living in severely overcrowded housing, and living in housing that is not stable (Cutts, Meyers, Black, Casey, Chilton, Cook, & Rose-Jacobs, 2011). Housing instability and homelessness create...