AGENCIES THAT FOCUS ON

AREAS OTHER THAN DRUG/ALCOHOL TREATMENT

Adult Consumer Home Making Life Management Program, 820 Northampton Street, Buffalo, NY 14211.  Contact  Kenneth Nies (716) 897-8021

Primary Service Provided: Community service education.

Type of Service: Case management, workshop/group.  In house services, individual counseling, education, employment search, living skills, job skills training, and parenting.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition, reentry and continuous service, serving all courts.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations. Restrictions, for adults age 18 and over. Must be willing to participate.

Description of Service: Comprehensive life management educational program addresses relationship-understanding needs, strengths and positive relations, communication-expressing thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly, accepting  potential for success, financial management-spending habits, attitudes, strategies, balancing roles-managing home and school roles,  parenting-breaking dysfunctional patterns, selecting alternatives for better results, nutrition. No fee. Also, Adult Vocational Career Training Program available.

Length of Participation: Varies

Waiting List: No

Batterer's Program  Man To Man, 1582 Bailey Buffalo, NY 14214.  Contact Director, Gregory White 896-6390

Primary Service Provided: Education

Type of Service: Workshop/Group

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition serving all courts.  Eligibility/target offense, felony and misdemeanor. Restricted to males 18 and over without chemical addictions or mental illness.

Description of Service: Counseling for partner abusers. $10-30 fee based on sliding scale. Goal is to help men stop violent and abusive behavior towards their partners and significant others. This is done in an educational group setting. Men learn to acknowledge the violence that occurs, take responsibility for their behavior, develop more effective communication skills, experience support from other men and attempt to understand reasons for their abusive behavior.

Length of Participation: 6 weeks, 1 hour to 45 minutes per week

Waiting List: N

Buffalo Access Center, Room 425, 290 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14202.  Contact  Program Director, Carol LeClair or Director, James Natali (716) 851-3763

Primary Service Provided: Education

Type of Service: Workshop/group, in-house services education, employment search, living skills, job skills training.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition, reentry and continuous service serving all courts.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations. Restrictions no violent offenders.  For adults (17+). For teen parents (ages 13-20).

Description of Service:  Provides occupational training in medical/clerical/machine trades/technical/human services/and more. On-site day care. Assessment /testing and career counseling. Job placement network provides job leads. Basic skills training in language/math/reading. Youth Parent Program for youth with parents on public assistance. Workplace literacy and family literacy programs. Life management topics include communications, budgeting of income, balancing roles, family and health issues.

Length of Participation: Depends on program

Waiting List: Depends on program and cycle

Buffalo Half-Way House Inc., 115 Glenwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209. Contact Veronica Graham, Executive Director (716) 882-0027

Primary Service Provided: Intensive Supervision

Type of Service: Case management, residential work. In-house services, individual counseling, living skills, and recreation.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition and reentry serving U.S. Courts.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations.  Restriction, for men age 18 and over. No sex offenses, arson, violent crimes or notorious cases.

Description of Service: Services the Federal Court, Federal Probation, U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons and the NYS Division of Parole. Clients MUST demonstrate a willingness to participate. Will not accept previous participants terminated for program disruption or warrant cases except those in Family or Traffic Courts. Service is provided to men and women, 18 and up.

Length of Participation: Average 5 months

Waiting List: 3 months

Buffalo Teen Challenge, 124 Locust Street,  Buffalo, NY 14204. Contact Rev. Mike Shreve (716) 855-0602

Primary Service Provided: Drug/Alcohol Treatment, Education, and Intensive Supervision.

Type of Service: Residential.  In house services, alcohol/drug, individual, and family counseling.  Living skills, employment search, job skills training, and religious activities.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition serving all courts except Family Court.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations.  Restriction, males age 18 and over.

Description of Service:  Residential Christian ministry for men with problems of drug abuse, and/or trouble with the law. 2-part program: 1) 3-4 month induction learning discipline-bible study, work, daily schedule, 2) 8 month vocational training at 220 acre farm in Rehrersburg, PA, teaching geared toward the meaning of a fulfilled, productive life, includes cooperation with local schools for high school diploma/GED.

Length of Participation: 12 months

Waiting List: 1 week-2 months

Canaan House, P.O. Box 2661, Buffalo, NY 14240 Contact.  Rev. Shirley Trail, Director (716) 892-1563

Description of Service: For highly motivated women who MUST DEMONSTRATE A WILLINGNESS TO REHABILITATE and participate in the program. GED prep and parenting in-house, all other referrals through network at counseling center.  Overt commitment to family reunification. Children can visit on weekends. Future  program to include direct child participation.

Length of Participation: 6 months

Church Mission of Help, 153 West Utica Street, Buffalo, NY 14222. Contact Marcia E. Buhl, Executive Director (716) 884-7569.

Primary Service: Mental health treatment.  In house services include individual/family counseling, parenting skills and limited men's group.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition and continuous service, serving all courts. Eligibility/target offense, misdemeanors.  In house services include individual/family counseling and parenting skills.

Restrictions:

Description of Service:  Individual, couples, family, group and adolescent counseling. Short and long term counseling covers: relationships, marriage, coping with loss, parent-child, survivors of sexual abuse, life transition adjustment for men and women, depression, anxiety, independent functioning, personal growth, developing more effective communication in job setting and relationships and family. Sliding scale fee. Must be able to pay at least $20 as we are not Medicaid providers.  

Length of Participation: 1 year and over

Waiting List: A few days

Developmentally Disabled Offender Program,  452 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202. Contact Beth Koenig Program Manager (716) 883-8888

Primary Service Provided:  Defender-based advocacy,  intensive supervision, pre-trial evaluation. Type of service, case management.  In house services, employment search, housing assistance, living skills, job skills training, and recreation.

Description of Service:  Client must have documents (psychiatric evaluation or school records) proving developmental disability, e.g. mental retardation, learning disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or autism. Services include pre-trial assessment, intensive supervision, court advocacy and intervention, assistance with vocational training, counseling, mobility training and specialized probation. Goal to avoid detention for DD persons, assist with court appearances and provide community supervision.

Length of Participation: Varies based on need

Educational Opportunity Center, 465 Washington Street Buffalo, NY 14203. Contact  Sherryl Weems, Director (716) 849-6753

Primary Service Provided: Community service, and education. Type of service, case management.  In house services, individual counseling, education, employment search, living skills, job skills training, and workshop/group.   

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition and continuous service, serving all courts.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor, and probation /parole violations.  Restricted to adults age18 and over.

Description of service: GED prep, English as Second Language, Adult Basic Education, College prep, resume writing, career counseling, interview techniques, in 7 1/2 week cycles. Vocational programs, Dental- 1 intake/year, Graphics in December and January. Fifteen vocational programs total. Call for intake dates, cycles and waiting list times.

Length of Participation: Varies by program

Waiting List: Depends on program

Every Person Influences Children (EPIC) SUCAB Cassety Hall1300, Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222 (716) 884-4064

Primary Service Provided: Education.  In house services, family counseling, education, health care living skills, and  parenting.  Type of service, workshop/group.   

Judicial Stage: Continuous service. Serving all courts except U.S. Courts.  Eligibility/target offense, misdemeanor. Restrictions, no violent offenders.

Description of Service: Free parenting workshops for parents and guardians of elementary/adolescent children, infant and toddlers. Parents are encouraged to be child's primary educator in attitude and behavior. Led by trained facilitators. Provides manuals covering topics of communication, discipline, self-esteem, nurturing, peer pressure, and home/school cooperation. School program emphasizes teaching 23 skills in 3 main areas, self-concept/self-esteem, rules, rights, responsibility, and decision making/program.

Length of Participation: 6 week sessions

Waiting List: None

Geneva B. Scruggs Community Health Care Center COPE Community Outreach Provider Education, 1005 Jefferson Buffalo, NY 14204. Contact Mae Hampton Administrative Assistant (716) 886-2673

Primary Service Provided: Mental Health Treatment

Type of Service: Case management, workshop/group.  In house services, individual and family counseling, education, health care, housing assistance, living skills, job skills training and recreation.  

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition serving all courts except Family Court.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations.  Restriction, for minorities 18-55 with primary psychiatric diagnosis.

Description of Service: Provides culturally sensitive individual and group therapy. Includes crisis service, vocational training, medication therapy, and individualized service plans. Will provide transportation. Address alcohol and drug addictions issues as part of education but does not provide certified substance abuse counseling. No one refused for inability to pay. Goal is to help clients maintain and function in the community thereby avoiding institutionalization. 

Length of Participation: 6 months and over

Waiting List: N

Hope House, 335 Grider Street, Buffalo, NY 14215. Contact Sister Karen Klimczak, Director  (716) 892-8224

Primary Service Provided: Intensive Supervision

Type of Service: Residential. Employment search, living skills, recreation, and religious activities.

Judicial Stage: Reentry.  Eligibility/target offense felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole.  Restricted to men on parole, no convictions for rape or arson.

Description of Service: Clients are interviewed to determine willingness to participate in program and abide by the rules and regulations approximately 6 months before release from prison. Three month program primarily serves homeless male parolees.

Length of Participation: 3 months

Waiting List: 6 months

Horizon Human Services Transitions Counseling Center, 3297 Bailey Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14215. Contact Amanda Wenner, (716) 833-3622 or Central Intake (716) 831-1800.

Primary Service: Sex offender treatments, aggression management, domestic violence education (group), mental health, vocational, and addiction counseling.  Day treatment services, psychiatric services.

Type of Service: Case management, day treatment, workshop/group.  In house services include; alcohol/drug, individual and family counseling, employment search, health care, living skills, job skills training and parenting.

Judicial Stage: All. Serving all courts except Family court.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations.  Clients must be18 years of age or older, and be willing to participate.

Description of Service: Services are structured to offer individual treatment goals for each client by reducing symptoms of mental illness, promoting a crime free lifestyle, and assisting clients toward becoming productive members of the community.  Provides intensive outpatient counseling to the mentally ill offender released or eligible for release from legal, penal or mental hygiene systems. Face-to-face interviews conducted prior to release from NYS or EC Correctional or  psychiatric facilities.

Length of Participation: Varies based on need

Waiting List: None

Mid-Erie Center for Choice and Achievement, 1131 Broadway Buffalo, NY 14212. Contact Kathy Maiorana  Program Supervisor, (716) 896-7712

Primary Service Provided: Mental Health Treatment.

Type of Service: Case management. In house services, alcohol/drug, individual and family counseling, education, housing assistance, living skills, job skills training, and recreation.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition and continuous service, serving all courts except Family Court.  Eligibility/target offense felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations.  Restricted to adults age 18 and over.

Description of service:  Pre-admission comprehensive assessment links client with appropriate program, can occur at office/home/institution. Intensive psychiatric rehabilitation program helps clients acquire and utilize skills needed to obtain and maintain their chosen living, learning, working or social environments. Focus on amelioration of consequences of mental illness. Based on educational model,  program certificates awarded upon completion. Medicare/Medicaid/private/sliding fee.

Length of Participation: Varies based on need

Waiting List: N

Mid-Erie Center for Self-Development, 463 William Street Buffalo, NY 14204. Contact Lawrence Van Heusen, CSW-R, Program Supervisor (716) 852-0383

Primary Service Provided: Mental Health Treatment.

Description of Service: Pre-admission comprehensive assessment links client with appropriate  program, can occur at office/home/institution. Three service plans for clients with psychiatric disabilities.  Rehabilitation Preparation/Enhanced Community Living  increases self-awareness, functional abilities. MICA helps to manage  symptoms/achieve abstinence from chemical use. Sustained Community Living aids existing skill maintenance, emphasizes cultural awareness/pride. Medicare/Medicaid/private/sliding fee.

Length of Participation: Varies based on need

Waiting List: No

Mid-Erie Counseling and Treatment Services, 1131 Broadway Buffalo, NY 14212 Contact  Sophia Miller, (716) 896-7712

Judicial Stage: All. Serving all courts. Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations. Restrictions, adults age 18 and over.

Description of Service:  Pre-admission screening/comprehensive assessment links client to  appropriate program, can occur at home/office/institution. Service consists of drug and/or alcohol dependency diagnosis, counseling for individuals, families and groups. Chemical dependency evaluation, medical evaluation and aftercare, linking with other social/community resources. Adult and adolescent clinics. Crisis intervention. Continuing Day Program and IPRT Intensive. Rehabilitation services are also available. Medicare/Medicaid/private/sliding fee.

Length of Participation: Varies Based on need.

Waiting List: None.

Mid-Erie Counseling and Treatment Services,1500 Broadway, Buffalo, NY 14212  (716)893-0062

Primary Service Provided: Mental Health Treatment

Type of Service: Case management, day treatment.  In house services, alcohol/drug, individual, and family counseling, education,  health care, living skills, job skills training, parenting, and recreation.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition and continuous service serving all courts.  Eligibility/target offense felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations. Restricted to adults age 18 and over.

Description of Service:  Pre-admission screening/comprehensive assessment links client with appropriate program, can occur at office/home/institution. Clients with severe/persistent mental illness are  provided with long-term counseling. Clients with acute problems are provided with short-term goal oriented intervention.  Program designed for clients needing less than three hours intervention per week. Individual/family/group counseling. Medical evaluation/medication, chemical dependency treatment. Medicare/Medicaid/private/sliding fee.

Length of Participation: Varies based on need

Waiting List: N

Mid-Erie Lancaster Center, 11 West Main Street, Lancaster, NY 14086. Contact  John Wagner, CSW Site Team Leader (716)681-5077

Primary Service Provided: Community service, defender based advocacy, education, first offender, diversion, mental health treatment, and pre-trial evaluation.

Type of Service: Case management, workshop/group. Individual, family counseling education, living skills, job skills training, parenting, and recreation.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition and continuous service serving all courts.  Eligibility/target offense felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole.

Description of Service:  Pre-admission screening/comprehensive assessment links client with appropriate program, can occur at office/home/institution. Clients with severe/persistent mental illness are provided with long-term counseling. Clients with acute problems are provided with short-term goal oriented intervention.  Program designed for clients needing less than three hours intervention per week. Medical evaluation/medication, chemical dependency treatment. Medicare/Medicaid/private/sliding fee.

Length of Participation: Varies based on need.

Waiting List: No

Mid-Erie Matthew Gajewski Human Services Center, 1500 Broadway Buffalo, NY 14212; 1526 Walden Avenue, Cheektowaga 14225

Contact Ken Duszynski Clinical Supervisor, (716) 895-6700

Primary Service Provided: Mental Health Treatment. Type of service, case management, day treatment.  In house services include, alcohol/drug, individual and family counseling, education, living skills and parenting.

Description of Service:  Pre-admission comprehensive assessment links client with appropriate program, can occur at office/home/institution. Child and adult mental health, family counseling, psychiatric treatment, individual/group counseling, chemical dependency assessments and treatment. Groups on parenting, self-esteem, living with a physical and/or mental illness, anger management and women's issues. Medication evaluation. Medicare/Medicaid/private/sliding fee.

Length of Participation: Varies based on need

Waiting List: None

Mid-Erie Towne Garden Center Adult Mental Health, 463 William Street Buffalo, NY 14206. Contact Lawrence Van Heusen, Supervising Counsel, (716) 852-0383

Primary Service Provided: Mental health treatment, case management, workshop/group. In house services, alcohol/drug family, individual, counseling, education, job skills training, and recreation.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition serving all courts except Family court.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations. Restricted to adults age 18 and over.

 Description of Service: Pre-admission screening/ comprehensive assessment links client with appropriate program, can occur at office/home/institution. Clients with severe/persistent mental  illness are provided with long-term counseling. Clients with acute problems are provided with short-term goal oriented intervention. Program designed for clients needing less than three hours intervention per week. Individual/family/group counseling. Medical evaluation/medication, chemical dependency treatment. Medicare/Medicaid/private/sliding fee.           

Length of Participation: Varies based on need.

Waiting List: No

One-Stop Center for Women, 2337 Main Street. Buffalo, NY 14214. Contact  Constance Eve (716) 832-6918

Primary Service Provided: Community service defender based advocacy drug/alcohol treatment education intensive supervision mental health treatment.

Type of Service: Case management, day treatment, residential, and workshop/group.  Alcohol/drug, individual and family counseling.  Education, housing assistance, living skills, job skills training, parenting recreation and religious activities.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition and continuous service. Serving all courts except Family Court.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations.  Restricted to women age 18 and over.

Description of Service: Focuses on education, vocation, and self-awareness. Women are tutored for the GED exam, when tutor feels she is ready she is assisted with GED application process and escorted to the exam site. Women participate in business skilled training program, learn typing and computer proficiency, successful completion of this program will qualify her for entry-level office position. Workshops and activities assist women in redirecting their lifestyles.

Length of Participation: 6 months-2 years.

Waiting List: No

Paradise House,144 Mills Street, P.O. Box 84 Buffalo, NY 14212. Contact Anne Paris Executive Director, (716) 892-2813

Primary Service Provided: Drug/Alcohol Treatment.

Judicial Stage: Reentry, serving all courts.  Eligibility/target offenses, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations.  Restrictions, no sex offenses against children. No arsonists. Women only.

Description of Service: Collective residency program for women on parole or probation, over the age of 18. Residents must abide by the conditions of parole/probation and house rules; for example, attend in-house AA or NA meetings, house meetings, dinner/ meals, church service of choice once a week, clean/cook. Random drug and alcohol testing. Children can visit or stay. 180 day program. Application, recommendations, and interview required.

Length of Participation: 180 days

Waiting List: Varies

Probation Department Community Service Sentencing, 25 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14202. Contact Michael Lex (716) 858-8888

Primary Service Provided: Community service, day treatment work.

Judicial Stage: Post-disposition serving City and County courts.  Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole violations.

Description of Service: Places individuals with one of 200 agencies to perform mandated hours. Proper documentation/authorization from sentencing authority, and written agreement for work/schedule signed by individual, sentencing authority and agency. Failure to complete work or adhere to schedule, reported immediately.

Length of Participation: Varies according to sentence

Waiting List: Contact agency

SAFE Salvation Army Family Education,  960 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202 Contact Tina Dell, M.Ed., NCC, Program Director (716) 855-2300 On-Site Supervised Program, Gilberto G. Cruz, M.S. Off-Site Supervising Counselor, (716) 883-9800 Ext. 419, Off-Site Supervised Program.

Primary Service Provided: Intensive Supervised On-Site and Off-Site Visitation.

Judicial Stage: Pre-disposition, serving Family Court.

Description of Service:  The Salvation Army provides neutral mediation to families court-ordered to develop an appropriate visitation agreement suitable to all parties.  A child-focused visitation service, this program develops agreements based upon the best interest of the child, and parents are taught to remove their child from the middle of the battle.  The program provides supervised setting where visitation can take place free from interference.  Reports reflecting quality of visit and progress are sent to referring judge.

Length of Participation: Varies

Waiting List: None

Stutzman Addiction Treatment Center, 360 Forest Ave, Buffalo, NY 14213. Contact Judi Phillips, Admissions Coordinator (716) 882-4900

Primary Service:  Drug/Alcohol Treatment.

Type of Service: Residential, alcohol/drug treatment.   Individual counseling, education, health care, living skills, and recreation.

Judicial Stage: Eligibility/target offense, felony, misdemeanor and probation/parole.

Description of Service: All referrals must be through licensed outpatient drug/alcohol services or agency. Clients must have an alcohol dependence diagnosis, no need for detoxification and be willing to participate in all aspects of the program. Tobacco free program, tobacco dependence treatment.  Special program for women to bring in pre-school children.

Length of Participation: Variable 2-6 weeks

Waiting List: Yes

Women's Residential Resource Center, 2528 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214. Contact  Ms. Eddie D. Watson  (716) 831-9825

Primary Service Provided: Intensive supervision. Type of service, residential, alcohol/drug, individual and family counseling. Education, employment search, living skills, job skills training, parenting, and recreation.

Description of Service: Transitional home environment and intensive human services for women. Develops client-oriented treatment and training plans that includes individual and group counseling educational, vocational and job training. Employment placement service, self actualization skills, linkage with community resources, housing and related follow-up services up to 1 year. 150 women served in residential and resource components.

Length of Participation: 60 day minimum

Waiting List: Varies