The Spring 2017 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our new street outreach grant in Harlem, how we’re expanding recovery services in the Bronx, and more. You can even get a sneak peek inside the George Rosenfeld Center for Recovery, opening in May on Wards Island. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments or on our Facebook wall. Click here to read it (pdf).
If you’d like to receive a copy in the mail, please email your contact information to info(at)odysseyhousenyc.org.
Yesterday, Odyssey House hosted a press conference announcing a new program designed to improve addiction treatment services in East Harlem. The NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) has awarded $190,000 to Odyssey House and Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System to support a new peer engagement specialist initiative.
cluded OASAS Commissioner Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez, Odyssey House President & CEO Dr. Peter Provet, and Teri Friedman, Director, Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System. The two peer engagement specialists, Anita Kennedy (Mount Sinai) and Mark Fowler (Odyssey House), also addressed the crowd, describing their experiences within the recovery community and how they plan to conduct outreach to connect individuals in East Harlem with treatment services.