Center For Wellness and Change

The Bridge provides a range of substance use treatment services from a harm-reduction perspective that promotes recovery, personal growth, self-reliance, and community integration. Treatment is person-centered and tailored to each individual’s specific and evolving needs and goals.

The Bridge’s Substance Use program is a New York State OASAS-licensed 822 treatment program and specializes in working with people with co-occurring diagnoses.

 

Outpatient Treatment

The Center for Wellness and Change provides a range of services for people who use drugs or who have used in the past.  Our treatment is from a harm reduction perspective that promotes recovery, personal growth, self-reliance, and community integration. 

The Center for Wellness and Change believes treatment should be focused on helping people improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives and strive to reach their full potential.

We recognize that each person’s path is different. Therefore, treatment is person-centered and tailored to each person’ specific and evolving needs and goals that may or may not include abstinence.  

1-5 days per week, 1-2 hours per day including individual counseling.  Groups are recommended but not required.

 

Intensive Outpatient Services

2-3 days per week, 3 hours per day including individual and group counseling.

Provides intensive services to individuals for 6-12 weeks in establishing stability and linkages to care as well as additional support for individuals with substance use disorder or with co-occurring disorder.

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT, INCLUDING BUPRENORPHINE, NALTREXONE AND VIVITROL, IS AVAILABLE.

Both programs include light breakfast and lunch, a MetroCard (for those with Medicaid), and harm reduction supplies such as Narcan training kits and fentanyl test strips.

The Bridge provides screenings and assessments, through the Impaired Driver Program, for individuals mandated by the courts for DUI or DWI offenses. Services can either be covered by insurance or self-pay.

Impaired Driver Program (including DUI Screenings and Assessments) *the IDP may be self-pay. SERVICES FROM A HARM REDUCTION PERSPECTIVE THAT PROMOTES RECOVERY, PERSONAL GROWTH, SELF-RELIANCE, AND COMMUNITY INTEGRATION. TREATMENT IS PERSON-CENTERED AND TAILORED TO EACH PERSON’S SPECIFIC AND EVOLVING NEEDS.

 

Services Offered

  • Medication Assisted Treatment (Including Buprenorphine, Naltrexone, and Vivitrol)  

  • Harm Reduction Supplies (Narcan, test strips, safer sex kits, Smoke Kits, and Sniff Kits)

  • Individual and Group Counseling 

  • Peer Support Services

  • Family Support Services

  • Mandated Treatment (for Probation, Parole, AOT, Mental Health Court, etc.)  

  • Entitlement/Housing Assistance

  • Psychiatric Treatment for those with a co-occurring diagnosis

  • Medication Management

  • Referrals to Additional Services as Needed

  • Transportation Assistance



 

Eligibility and Intake

We also offer Walk In hours on Mondays and Thursdays from 9:30am-3pm.  No appointment is necessary!