Peer-Led Support

Advances public awareness and policy related to substance use and recovery through collaboration with community partners, families, and public events. Promotes access to Narcan and treatment resources as part of advocacy efforts.

Hosts and organizes community events to raise awareness about substance use disorders, honor those lost, and celebrate recovery. Activities include the annual R. Brinkley Smithers Golf Invitational, the Long Island Trail of Truth – March to the Sea (attended by over 50 participants), and public memorial events such as placing tombstones in the sand to highlight the impact of fentanyl and the opioid epidemic.

Offers evidence-based, social-emotional learning-focused prevention education to students, educators, and families across Long Island. In a recent year, provided services to 49 schools and reached 12,564 students through its Prevention Education Team.

Provides confidential counseling and support to employees and their families for mental health, substance use, and life challenges. Served 20,000 employees and family members through this program.

Facilitates a range of support services for families and individuals affected by substance use, including professionally led and peer-led support groups (e.g., Family Support, Grief & Loss, Eating Disorders), planned family interventions, family education and counseling, and a workshop series focused on family roles and treatment options. Provided 1,500 such services through FIST-GGT-LICADD programs.

Collaborates with organizations like Gabriel’s Giving Tree on awareness and fundraising initiatives, including participation in the Purple Rock Project ceremony honoring over 100 opioid epidemic victims and raising funds for affected families.

Provides comprehensive services including chemical dependency evaluations, treatment referrals, intervention support, relapse prevention, and outpatient counseling with immediate access upon contact. Services are offered at two office locations in Bohemia and Westbury, NY, and include arranging detox and inpatient treatment as needed.

Delivers accredited, evidence-based workshops and continuing education programs to mental health professionals, educators, and school staff across New York State. Trained 1,892 professionals in substance use disorder and related topics.

Provides dedicated recovery support services to inmates through a Criminal Justice Clinician, facilitating reintegration and recovery. Served 1,800 inmates through this initiative.

Hosts an annual women's summit in Brooklyn, bringing together women from across New York City for workshops and discussions.

Implements community partnership programs in East Flatbush and Mott Haven to improve access to and coordination of resources for children and families, connecting residents to schools, health care, recreation, and community services through collaborative outreach.

Offers in-home, one-on-one tutoring and literacy training for parents through the Early Literacy program for youth in foster care.

Delivers in-home and community-based services using evidence-based models such as Functional Family Therapy, Child Parent Psychotherapy, and Solution-Based Case Work, as well as the holistic Helping Hands for Families model, to support families in crisis and promote child well-being.

Provides family peer support workers and youth peer advocates with lived experience to connect families to resources, accompany them to appointments, and mentor teens in developing coping skills and goal-setting. Offers planned respite services, one-on-one habilitation, and support with scheduling, prescriptions, housing, and benefits access.

Operates foster care programs placing over 800 youth in safe, nurturing homes in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and provides long-term foster care and support to up to 30 undocumented young adults through the Unaccompanied Minors Program. The organization runs 37 programs offering foster care, residential treatment, case management, education, and specialized services for child sexual abuse victims.

Hosts gala events that raise nearly $1 million to support youth in its care.

Provides expert, evidence-based mental health and child welfare services to over 17,000 children and families annually, including rapid assessment, crisis intervention, in-home therapy, and treatment to stabilize families in crisis and prevent foster care placement.

Operates an 8-week parent-child dyadic art therapy group for children aged 6–11 and their caregivers affected by family violence, providing case management support and demonstrating improvements in emotional regulation, caregiver stress reduction, and caregiver-child relationships.