Our Mission

Exponents is a 501(c) 3 community-based organization dedicated to helping men and women suffering from the effects of substance abuse to reclaim their lives.  Programs are a synthesis of therapeutic community and low threshold principles that engage and retain clients in services.  They are designed to support successful life transitions for the neediest of New Yorkers by empowering individual responsibility in an inspiring community setting.  Intensive education and case management services gradually move skills needed to break barriers to gaining housing, employment, and health care.

Exponents is a client driven organization rather than program driven.  This individualized strategy responds to the changing personal deeds of men and women who are recently released from prison regardless of their stage of addiction or recovery.  Many are at risk for or have diagnoses of HIV and Hepatitis C.  Exponents has assisted individuals in stabilizing their personal lives by providing access into primary and mental health care, and our own job readiness program that prepares them for positions in the HIV and substance abuse field.  We assist them in learning that their past life experiences have value and that they can draw on those life experiences to direct their futures into purposeful lives.