WOMEN-SPECIFIC TREATMENT RESOURCES

The following agencies and providers offer women-specific programs
for addiction treatment and recovery:

- - Gateway Foundation, 55 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Il 60604, (312)
663-1130: A treatment program with specific programs for women, with
facilities in Texas, Illinois and Delaware.

- - The Next Step, 276 Sherman St., Albany, NY 12206, (518) 465-5249:
Provides residential treatment for women recovering from alcoholism
and drug abuse.

- - Prototypes, 5601 W. Slauson Ave., Suite 200, Culver City, CA 90230;
(310) 641-7795: Serves women and their children who are homeless,
battered, addicted to drugs or alcohol and those living with or
at-risk for contracting HIV/AIDS at its facilities in southern California.

- - The Rebecca Project for Human Rights, 1752 Columbia Road NW, Third
Floor, Washington, D.C. 20009; (202) 265-3907: Legal and advocacy
organization that helps poor and low-income mothers recovering from
substance abuse.

- - Southcentral Foundation: Alaska Women's Recovery Project, 4130 San
Ernesto Ave., Anchorage, AK 99508; (907) 729-5090: Provides
leadership training, mentoring and support for recovering women.

- - Women for Sobriety, P.O. Box 618, Quakertown, PA 18951-0618; (215)
536-8026: Designed specifically to help women alcoholics achieve
sobriety by addressing the need to overcome depression and guilt
through the "New Life" program.

(For a list of women's residential programs updated annually by the
federal government, go to the Center For Substance Abuse Treatment's
Treatment Locator Service or call (800) 662-HELP (4357).)

(For more information, resources and interactive forums on substance
abuse issues, visit www.silenttreatment.info. Take the reader survey.)

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