 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
Andrea Savage, PhD, Social Work, Hunter College School of Social Work, 129 East 79 Street, New York, NY 10021 and Sharon Cadiz, EdD, Portal Project, Palladia, Inc., 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003, 212-979-8800, sharon.cadiz@palladiainc.org.
Palladia Inc, (formerly Project Return Foundation, Inc.) is a not-for-profit, multi-service agency, located in New York City, serving primarily African -American and Latino communities. Palladia's Portal Project is a participant in the Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Multi-Site study. The Portal Project is a residential drug treatment program comprised of integrated, gender sensitive, culturally competent services that concurrently attend to the multiple domains of trauma, substance abuse, mental health and parenting. The primary goals of the project are to create and maintain effective service integration that informs practice, programming and policy; to empower and integrate consumers in service integration, policy development, research and evaluation, and service design; to develop and disseminate a tested best practices model for the treatment of women with co-occurring disorders and trauma in a residential drug treatment setting; to develop a replicable model for consumer integration and empowerment in residential drug treatment; and to develop an adapted, tested model for Seeking Safety Intervention for poor, urban women with multiple service needs in residential drug treatment. The design of the intervention is geared to putting trauma and safety first to help women gain skills and understanding, to effectively and positively cope and to remain in treatment. This project tests the effects of a system of care in which trauma, substance abuse and mental health are equally, and coherently addressed in a model that makes trauma an early and more central aspect of treatment. The model integrates services at the clinical and service system level, with all domains attended to early in the treatment process. Family and parenting connections are also addressed.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Palladia, Inc. and Hunter College School of Social Work
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Relationship: Employed by Palladia, Inc.