RESOURCE LIST FOR TREATMENT, RECOVERY AND SUPPORT

The following is only a small sampling of the agencies and providers
offering substance abuse services to those navigating the criminal
justice system. For a comprehensive list of resources throughout the
country, visit www.silenttreatment.info.

- - The Bridge, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA 19111, (215)
342-5000;: Offers long- and short-term residential drug and alcohol
abuse programs primarily for African-American youth ages 14 to 18,
with individual, group, and family therapy, life skills activities
and high school education.

- - Center for Community Alternatives: Syracuse Recovery Community
Support Project, 115 East Jefferson St., Suite 300, Syracuse, NY
13202, (315) 422-5638, ext. 222: Organizes recovering individuals to
improve the delivery of treatment to offenders and ex-offenders and
to help reduce the dual stigmatization of ex-offenders in recovery.

- - Family Justice, 625 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10012; (212)
457-1500: A nonprofit organization that draws on the natural
resources of families to break cycles of involvement with the
criminal justice system.

- - GROUP Ministries, Inc.: Peer Outreach to Recovery Community, 1333
Jefferson Ave., Buffalo, NY 14208; (716) 883-4367, ext. 18: Provides
peer recovery support services focused primarily on African Americans
and other people of color.

- - National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the
Justice System, 345 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY 12054; (800) 311-4246:
Provides access to community-based services for adult and juvenile
criminal offenders with co-occurring mental illness and alcohol and
drug use disorders.

- - TASC, Inc. (Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities) Restoring
Citizenship, 1500 North Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60622; (312)
573-8211: Supports ex-offenders in restoring themselves to healthy
and productive citizenship; sponsors Winners' Circles, peer-led
recovery support groups for ex-offenders and their families.

- - Vera Institute of Justice - La Bodega de la Familia, 272 East Third
St., New York, NY 10009; (212) 982-2335: Offers family- and
community-based recovery services for people on parole or probation.

- - VOICES for Addiction Recovery, NC, Inc, P.O. Box 2925, Asheville,
NC 28802; (828) 252-9022: Serves addicted, single pregnant women,
addicted teenagers and adults who have become part of the criminal
justice system and the growing Hispanic population with addiction issues.

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

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