Motherboard for Mental Health
RESOURCE LIST
This list is a work in progress. If you would like to add your organization or agency to this list of services, please contact us.
SUBSTANCE USE – SUPPORT, TREATMENT & EDUCATION
DAPC – Bedford, Lewisboro, Pound Ridge Drug Abuse Prevention Council
Bedford, Lewisboro, Pound Ridge cooperative implanting science-based prevention strategies that focus on increasing protective factors and decreasing risk factors associated with alcohol and drug abuse in individuals, families, and communities. Provides research-based information, public forums, and resources for intervention and strategies for prevention.
DAPC Recovery Resource List
Recovery Speakers
(Online library of recovery audio recordings)
Dedicated to collecting and preserving the audio history of the 12 step fellowships. Also included are talks not only from AA and Al Anon but also from other new and popular 12 step progams.
Drug Crisis In Our Backyards
Offers services to the Hudson Valley Community that bring awareness about drug abuse.
Offers reoccurring meeting where parents and families may obtain information and support dealing with drug abuse and addictions in their homes.
AA Meetings
NY Intergroup
AA meetings and schedules
Life Ring
Secular recovery/AA Alternative that provides a platform for people in recovery to share practical experience and sobriety support.
Stepping Stones
The Stepping Stones Foundation preserves the historic home of Bill and Lois Wilson, co-founders, respectively, of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon Family Groups, and commemorates their achievements in the field of recovery from alcoholism.
Narcotics Anonymous
12 Step Meetings
Cocaine Anonymous Online
12 Step meetings
Al-Anon
Westchester
Support for families/loved ones
12 Step meetings
Alateen
A peer support group for teens who are struggling with the effects of someone else’s problem drinking.
Soberocity
Sober community app that connects the global sober community in order to build sober support and inspire support. Offers affordable 24/7 certified peer coaches to assist in recovery.
Sober Grid
Sober community app that connects the global sober community in order to build sober support and inspire support. Offers affordable 24/7 certified peer coaches to assist in recovery.
Soberistas
A worldwide community of people helping each other stay sober. Information, personal stories and advice provided.
Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (Westchester)
Outpatient care for children, adolescent and young adult whose lives are impacted by anxiety and OCD
Cassie’s Cottage
Women’s sober house in Fairfield County
CT Renaissance
Substance and mental health treatment for all ages
The Lighthouse
Offers premier sober living, recovery coaching, sober companions for men and women
Dr. Jonathan Avery
Weill Cornell
Substance-related and addictive disorders are common, and often disabling, and frequently co-occur with other psychiatric and medical disorders.
Reddit.com
Online community for people in recovery to hang out, share experiences and support each other.
GLOBAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE & RECOVERY
In the Rooms
Gives recovering addicts a place to meet and socialize when they are not in face to fact meetings. Globally connects those in recovery to support.
New Canaan Parent Support Group
Parent Support Group for parents with loved ones affected by substance abuse and addiction.
Lives in the Balance
Provides resources and programs to caregivers of behaviorally challenged children.
Above the Influence
Strategies for building self-esteem and self-knowledge to live above the influence. Resources to find help and information on drug facts.
RE/Coach
Recovery and coaching training
Rocking Recovery
Connecticut offers a vast network of organizations, services and programs for people living with mental illness and addiction.
Communities 4 Action
Serves as a catalyst for regional groups to strengthen local efforts to reduce substance misuse for youth and adults znd persons living in Greenwich, Stamford, Darien and New Canaan.
Drugfree.org
Transforms how the nation addresses addiction. Go to the organization addressing every aspect of substance abuse and addiction from prevention to recovery. Empowers parents and caregivers and researches prevention and treatment.
CADCA
Emphasizes the power of community coalitions to prevent substance misuse through collaborative community efforts in schools, law enforcement, healthcare etc.
Committed to creating safe, healing, and drug-free communities by preventing substance use and misuse before it starts. This is the most effective and cost-efficient way to reduce substance use and its associated costs.
Courage to Speak
Substance abuse education programs for youth. Social-emotional learning programs that empower youth to be drug-free and encourage parents to speak to their children about drugs.
DEA Get Smart About Drugs
Resources and information for parents, educators and caregivers on drugs and drug abuse. Includes information on drugs, statistics, signs of drug use, talking to your child about drugs, consequences of drug use, and effects on the brain, among other topics.
Just Think Twice
DEA site that provides facts about drugs and drug use including consequences, true stories, current news, and how to get help.
Courage to Speak
Substance abuse education programs for youth. Social-emotional learning programs that empower youth to be drug-free and encourage parents to speak to their children about drugs.
Drug-Free World
Public benefit corporation that empowers youth and adults with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions to live drug-free.
Help.org
Helps consumers make safer and smarter choices from finding an addiction center that is best for the individual, based on fact-based research and resources.
Shatterproof
Committed to creating structural change that will turn the tide of the addiction crisis. Dedicated to helping every American with a substance abuse disorder find science based treatment and lasting recovery.
Smart Recovery
Self-management and recovery training. Group discussions and meetings where participants learn from one another using a self-empowering approach based on the most current science of recovery.
Hazelden
Provider of evidence-based prevention curriculum for K-12 educators and other social services and organizations nationwide, Also provides treatment programs, recovery resources, education and training.
Talk About Alcohol
Alcohol education website that is part of the Alcohol Education Trust. Designed to be used by young people in a classroom setting for education about alcohol.
National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens
Source for science-based information on teen drug use and its effects. Information geared to teens, parents, and educators.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Supports and conducts research on the impact of alcohol use on human health and well-being. Offers a treatment navigator.
We Connect Recovery
This social purpose corporation is focused on ending substance use disorder around the world. Through an app, it offers peer recovery support specialists, tracks, and prioritizes patient care, with a data dashboard for providers, and it monitors adherence and adds routines to patient plans.
Lexington Center for Recovery
Open Access
Call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Counselors and Peers offer help to access substance use treatment and recovery services. All calls are toll-free and confidential.
New York State HOPE line
Offering help and hope 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for alcoholism, drug abuse and problem gambling. All calls are toll-free, anonymous and confidential.
1-877-8-HOPENY CALL OR TEXT
SAMHSA – Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
The agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation.
SAMHSA’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
I Am Sober
Track your sobriety with a community that understands what you’re going through.
Build new daily habits and learn from others who are making changes happen.
Alcohol Rehab Help is an informational web guide created for people struggling with alcohol use disorders (AUD) and co-occurring mental health disorders. They offer information on Alcohol Use Disorder and have comprehensive information regarding treatment options.
Student Assistance Services Westchester
Substance mis-use prevention agency serving schools and communities.
Services include prevention, early intervention, programming, training and residential facilities.
Bulding prevention.
Refuge Recovery
A Buddhist Inspired Path to Recovery
Unity Recovery
A recovery community organization (RCO) that believes that recovery is an individualized and dynamic process, and supports those with mental health or substance use disorders, no matter the pathway one uses.
– THANK YOU –
Thank you for your generous time and help:
New Canaan Community Foundation, Lauren Patterson
DAPC, Kathryn Ferrara
Stepping Stones, Sally Corbett-Turco
Laurel House, RtoR, Linda Autore and Denise Vestuti
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