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ARRIVE
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.
Personalized Intensive Counseling (PIC)
For those individuals who are committed to identifying and assessing their challenges related to living a healthier lifestyle, we have a program where you can create a blueprint to living that healthier lifestyle. This is all done in one on one sessions with your P.I.C. Counselor according to your schedule!
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.
Project START
Project START is a CDC Funded Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI)
Project START( SHIFT, Self & Help Insight For Transitioning), is an HIV/STI/heparitis risk reduction program for people returning to the community after incarceration. The program begins at lest 60 days before clients are released and continues with clients for 3 months in the community .
SHIFT also covers many other issues and challenges people face when they are released from a correctional setting back into the community (e.g. housing viable employment, or dealing with Substance use and mental health issues.
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Former Prisoner Symposium
Developed and conducted five times a year by ex-offenders, this one-day conference is for individuals with a history of arrest or incarceration. Participants learn how to successfully transition back into society, create a social network, obtain needed identification, and become job-ready.
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
Women's 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.
Second Chance Initiative
A mentoring program with a peer driven model to assist with the transition from incarceration to community to reduce recidivism.
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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 Services Unit
Staffed by our graduates, this program prepares inmates for release by planning their network of community-based treatments. Our staff secures stable housing and medical services prior to our clients' release to provide a more successful transition from prison to community life.
Men's Supportive Services
Men's Supportive Services (MSS) is a unique opportunity for HIV positive men to access case management, supportive individual counseling, support and educational groups. The initiative is funded by the NYS Department of Health - AIDS Institute and provides connections to entitlements, housing, job training, as well as provide a safe space where men can receive support from trained staff and one another as they strive to manage the spectrum of HIV disease as a chronic condition.
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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.
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