All of our programs and services are free of charge and are held at our centrally located offices in Manhattan.
A.R.R.I.V.E.
A two-month program, offered five times each year, to care for individuals and families affected by HIV, other chronic illnesses, and drug abuse. In a uniquely supportive, inspiring and educational environment, ARRIVE offers life-skills building, training, and support services that assist with recovery and build stability for those combating illness, addiction, poverty, and homelessness.
Supportive case
management / recovery
readiness
Experienced peer case managers help individuals achieve stability and independence by assisting with benefits such as housing, primary care, and drug treatment needs. HIV counseling, an education relapse prevention group, and individual counseling help people with multiple challenges to build safer, healthier, and more independent lives.
Health and Sexuality
Risk Reduction
One of the first of its kind, this eight-week course fosters self-discovery and socialization skills. Participants and their counselors create individual plans to reduce the risk of chronic illness.
RETURN
These programs work in tandem to provide those recently released from jail or prison with individual substance abuse counseling and access to HIV testing and connections to primary medical care. RETURN uses cognitive behavioal therapy to help client struggling with addiction and recovery. Connections uses peer escorts to ensure clientshave a companion helping them keep medical appointments and navigate entitlement systems.
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Outreach Services
Strategically planned to target areas in New York City where no services exist. The purpose of this program is to engage homeless I.V. drug users and ex-offenders with services and programs that can save and improve their lives.
The Community Promise Program is an effective community-level HIV/STD prevention intervention that relies on "Role Model Stories". As a peer advocate in the Outreach program you will learn:
- New strategies on how to engage and help your Community to prevent the spread of HIV and STD's
-Data Collection
-Communication skills
In addition the program offers:
-Booster Trainings and Workshops
-One on One Individual Sessions
-Support Groups
-Team Empowerment
Womens Supportive Services
A program for HIV+ women. This program is a unique blend of case management and support services run by, and for, women. We have socialization trips six times a year with opportunities to engage your children.
Exponents Intensive Drug Treatment Outpatient Program
We are an OASAS licensed specialty program designated to treat individuals affected by substance abuse and chronic medical conditions. OASAS has certified us as a low volume clinic in order to provide the intensive care that individuals suffering from both chemical dependency and chronic illness need to be healthy and sober. The program meets all requirements for HRA / Probation / Parole / Court and ACS mandates. Our program is designed specifically for those individuals suffering from chemical dependency, compounded by chronic illness and / or psychiatric disorder. Clients are evaluated by staff psyciatrist and are prescribed medication as needed until they can access psychiatric care in the community Our staff psychiatrist will continue to monitor their stability and confer with their primary psychiatrist.
Transitional
Counseling Unit
Staffed by our graduates, this program prepares inmates for release by meeting them while incarcerated and formulating a transition plan that addresses their transitional needs. Upon release, program staff connects clients to medical care, by accompanying them to their initial medical appointments. Staff also accompany clients to other services indentified in the transitional plan provide referrals to crucial ancillary successful transition from prison to community life.
Rapid Testing
Confidential HIV Testing is provided on site Mondays - Friday, 9:30am - 4:30pm. HIV testing is also provided to the general community in the Bronx and Manhattan through our Mobile Health Unit. Please call 212.243.3434 for mobile testing locations.
Peer Training Initiative
A program for graduates of ARRIVE who want to further their marketable skills in counseling, training, and outreach.
Feeding Our Family
Alleviates the hunger of our clients by providing them with prepackaged breakfasts, afternoon snacks and portable packaged meals, both while they are at Exponents and to take home for dinnertime. These free meals enable our clients, who are living in shelters, to begin to address their substance abuse and destabilized lifestyles.
Healthy Relationships
A Small- Group, skills-building intervention for men and women living with HIV/AIDS, this progra is designed to reduce participants' stress related to safer sexual behaviros and disclosure of their serostatus to family, friends, and sex partners.
The Recovering Annex
Provides clients at any stage of recovery with workshops and peer mentoring services. Services promote long-term recovery through a peer support model of Mentoring Circles, group social and startegy development activities, skills training and recovery community and family suppport.
Outstationed Services
Counseling is conducted with HIV negative , at risk, clients in 6 of the New York City DHS Shelters in Manhattan and the Bronx. Counseling topics are based on Substance Use issues and Safe Sex along with Hepatitis C secondary prevention. Referrals are given, for testing, to our testing van which rotates days in all sites
