Bettor Choice Program
CARECORPS
Gambling Prevention & Counseling Services
Poster Contest
Reconnecting Youth
Safe Summer Camp
Sunshine Getaway Camp
Strengtheing Families Program
Sullivan County CARES Coalition
Sullivan County Tobacco-Free Coalition
Prevention First NY
"Bettor" Choice Program
PROBLEM GAMBLING SERVICES for INDIVIDUALS & FAMILIES
The "Bettor" Choice is a treatment program based on individual needs. A gambling problem affects you and those closest to you. That is why we treat family member and other loved ones as well as the client.
The Recovery Center offers gamblers, their families and other loved ones a program aimed at achieving abstinence from problem gambling and debt accumulation - thereby enhancing Quality of Live. Our services include confidential assessment and counseling for individuals; their families; and other loved ones; as well as group therapy sessions.
Many individuals who have a gambling problem, also have a problem with alcohol or other drugs.
Addiction takes many forms.
THERE IS A WAY OUT.
Our goal is to provide quality treatment that is respectfully and professionally delivered and which affirms the dignity of those we serve. At the Recovery Center, we realize it is a privilege and precious responsibility to help people with there serious problems.
The "Bettor" Choice Program is affordable, confidential and individualized.
For more information call 794-8080, ext. 122
Communities That Care (CTC) is a universal operating system whose strategy seeks to influence the social policies and norms that perpetuate alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and other drug (ATOD-G) abuse as an acceptable alternative. In order to achieve this environmental shift, the Council and Sullivan County Cares Coalition engaged in network development and coalition building. Of the 76,688 residents of Sullivan County, we are targeting three communities - Monticello, Fallsburg, and Liberty. Community-specific prevention coalition(s) include representatives from prevention and treatment agencies, health and human service organizations, the criminal justice system, teachers, parents, clergy, and the financial and business industry. Coalition members will eventually be representatives of all the major stakeholders and will reflect the diversity of the targeted community.
CTC Members work towards bringing about an environmental shift by increasing awareness of the prevalence of ATOD-G and risk factors as well as the importance of protective factors. At least 75% of participants demonstrate increased awareness of risk factors and the importance of protective factors. Members also promote utilization of research-based effective prevention programs that reduce risk and enhance protective factors.
It is presumed that impactors have the capacity to successfully foster resiliency, understand key elements of the social development model, positively impact youth in helping them to avoid first use of ATOD-G, and develop positive alternatives and social norms which will minimize risk factors and enhance protective factors. CARECORPS, a CTC coalition, is working towards positive futures for all our children. It is a process that does not provide an "overnight fix" to the issues that have been identified. CTC is a process that builds on the strengths of the community to create a healthy environment for our youth.
The Recovery Center and Sullivan County Cares Coalition, as part of Alcohol Awareness Month in April, collaborate in sponsoring the annual Alcohol, Tobacco, Other Drugs & Gambling Abuse Poster Contest. The Poster Contest fosters classroom and youth group discussions about the problems associated with chemical dependency and express some feelings of hope for their future. Drawing helps children get in touch with their feelings and dreams. Children from schools throughout Sullivan County, grades 1 through 12, participate in the contest. With a new theme established each year, entries are accepted in both English and Spanish; each participant receives a Certificate of Participation. First, Second and Third Prizes are awarded in each grade category (Grades 1-4, Grades 5-8, and Grades 9-12 ) as well as awards for the English and Spanish Grand Prizes. Winners are honored at the Annual Awards Ceremony held at the Sullivan County Government Center in Monticello, NY. Copies of the Grand Prize winning posters are professionally reproduced and distributed across Sullivan County.
Reconnecting Youth
The Reconnecting Youth Program is a prevention research-based curriculum that builds on life skills. It was originally designed as a school-based prevention program used to offset the ever-growing dropout rate among our youth.
What the Recovery Center has since discovered, is that this program can actually be adapted for use in diverse settings such as: community mental health and drug abuse prevention centers; public health clinics; private practice settings; and in juvenile correction facilities or detention centers. Just as relevantly, there are a vast number of other settings where typical youth might be found, and where the program could be just as effectively implemented, in whole or in part. These include: recreation centers, churches, community youth clubs, and even summer camps.
The primary goal of the Reconnecting Youth Program is to give our youth the opportunity to express themselves, without judgment, in creative ways while learning the appropriate socialization skills needed for interacting with their peers and others.
In implementing this program, the Recovery Center's ultimate aim is to have creative adult leaders, working alongside our adolescents, who recognize the real potential of this prevention program, and who will be able to adapt its implementation in diverse settings. The program’s goals are to increase school performance (grades, credits, attendance, work); boost drug-use control; and augment mood management skills to decrease the likelihood of depression, aggression, and even suicide risk.
Safe Summer and Sunshine Getaway Camps
The Recovery Center and Sullivan County Youth Bureau collaborate in offering a unique one-week sleepover camp for 35 economically disadvantaged children, ages 7 - 12. The Safe Summer Camp is specifically designed to meet the needs of children from families with alcohol/drug abuse and/or who are experiencing chaotic living situations. The children are from all areas of Sullivan County. Safe Summer Camp fosters positive bonding with peers and healthy role-model adults in a structured, safe, challenging, and fun-filled environment. The camp provides an opportunity for youth to enhance physical skills and self-esteem and increase health and safety awareness by participating in a variety of educational and recreational activities each day, including Swimming, Water Safety, Arts & Crafts, Campfire Sing-Alongs, Hiking, Project Adventure, and Interactive Sessions on Safety & Healthy Lifestyles. Sunshine Getaway Camp offers comparable programs for teens, ages 13 to 16.
Strengthening Families
This program is designed to help parents improve their parenting skills, reduce their children’s risk factors, and enhance the protective factors in their lives to prevent the onset of alcoholism or other addictions. Strengthening Families is a selective multi-component, family focused program that addresses family management problems and attitudes toward ATOD-G use and problem behavior and provides 7 sessions of prevention programming for parents of children aged 6-11, and 7 sessions for children aged 12-14 who face a variety of challenges and risks.
Growing with Your Teens/Pre-Teens:
The Sullivan County Cares Coalition will offer this selective program throughout the school year in schools, community agencies, and/or churches/synagogues. We will target 50 parents and 50 youth, ages 11-14, in 10 locations. This program addresses family management problems, conflict, attitudes toward ATOD-G use, and negative behaviors; it fosters conflict resolution skills and family bonding.
Choices Program:
The Sullivan County Cares Coalition Choices Program is a universal strategy; however, the students are selected to participate in the program by teachers and/or guidance counselors who also participate in the program. The youth involved volunteer their time to be involved in positive alternatives to ATOD-G. The youth develop and improve peer leadership skills as well as actively promoting a “no use” philosophy. They are involved in school and community activities and act as role models to their peers (example: French Club, Athletes Against Substance Abuse, SADD, Chapter and Honor Society). In addition, many of the students who are not involved in any club activity also want to become peer mentors.
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program:
The bullying prevention program is an environmental strategy that will reward positive behaviors while decreasing negative behaviors.
Sullivan County Tobacco Free Coalition
The Sullivan County Tobacco Free Coalition is a funded partnership, of the New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program. The goal of the coalition is to "de-normalize" tobacco usage, by using evidence based strategies to educate, mobilize and engage the community in efforts to reduce tobacco usage and promote cessation.
Two evidence based strategies that the coalition is presently engaged in are the "Say 'No' to Big Tobacco Campaign" and reduction of advertisement for tobacco products in retail stores. The "Say No to Big Tobacco Campaign" works with business owners and business leaders to make them aware of the efforts of tobacco companies to sponsor community events, thereby presenting an image of concern for the community.
The coalition is engaging retail store owner's, requesting that they reduce, re-arrange and or eliminate tobacco advertisement. Exterior advertisements are slowly being reduced. In the past the coalition has been active is raising community awareness about the role of seeing movies in which role models use tobacco. These efforts are leading to any movie which depicts smoking as being rated 'R'. The coalition also works to promote the service of the Smoker's Quitline. The "Quitline" provides cessation counseling to those quitting tobacco usage. There toll free number is 1-866- 697 8487. The coalition meets monthly on the Fourth Thursday of the month, at 10am in the Gerry Conference Center, on the grounds of the Recovery Center.
For more information call 794-8080, ext. 126
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