SIMHS SafeTY.net Early Intervention Program Fills Gaps in Services for Staten Island Youth Battling Trauma-Related Substance Use/Abuse

• By: Fern A. Zagor, LCSW, ACSW Staten Island Mental Health Society
• January 1st, 2017
• addiction recovery, adolescent substance use, case management, community-based treatment, early intervention, trauma-informed care, Wraparound services, youth mental health
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For more than a decade, Staten Island has been harboring a shameful secret that is only recently coming to light. Our Island outranks each borough, as well as the whole of New York City and State, in the rate of adolescent drug and alcohol abuse, including binge drinking and use of prescription...