April 10, 2013
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Story
Struggling with her past, Cassandra Sheets embraced Ladder to Leadership to gain the confidence to lead a new organization focusing on addictions.
August 27, 2009
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Program Result
An electronic database and map of reentry services available to prisoners returning from New York City's jails to communities in its five boroughs finds services are often inaccessible.
April 1, 1997
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Program Result
Between July 1992 and October 1995, the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene of Albany, N.Y., evaluated the performance of the New York State Hospital Intervention Service (HIS), which screens hospital patients for alcohol problems and conducts a brief intervention or refers them to treatment.
August 4, 2008
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Story
In her work with older people suffering from substance abuse problems, D'Agostino found herself turning many tenets of the alcohol treatment field upside down and inside out.
August 4, 2008
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Story
Leow used her Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse fellowship to create substance abuse interventions tailored to minority communities.
December 1, 2011
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Program Result
Between 2006 and 2010, nine state-provider partnerships identified and removed barriers and changed administrative procedures in order to improve the quality of substance abuse services. RWJF supported two of the partnerships, in New York and Oklahoma.
May 3, 2011
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Program Result
From 2005 to 2010, the Washington-based Rebecca Project for Human Rights expanded its efforts to advocate on behalf of low-income families suffering from the impact of a parent's substance abuse.
April 1, 2008
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Report
An electronic database and map of reentry services available to prisoners returning from New York City's jails to communities in its five boroughs finds services are often inaccessible.
July 23, 2009
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Story
In 2003, Materson received an Innovators Combating Substance Abuse award and got a chance to use his art and his life experiences to help others understand the process of addiction and the path to recovery.
September 29, 2008
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Program Result
Project Link is a consortium of six community service organizations to reduce repeated hospitalizations and incarcerations among a population of clients with the dual diagnoses of severe mental illness and substance abuse.