Programs & Partners

What We Do

  • Counseling for youth and parents

  • HIV testing/Hep C testing

  • Presentations on substance abuse and HIV

  • Community Service opportunities for youth and adults

  • Classes for anger management, alcohol and other drugs, life skills, and truancy

  • Student internships

  • Effectively build community coalitions

  • Host artistic performances to improve mental health

Peer to Peer Recovery

The Peer to Peer Recovery Program is an outreach program designed to help people become and stay engaged in the recovery process to reduce the likelihood of relapse. The program provides cultural sensitive peer supported services to individuals and family members of those on probation or parole, Veterans, National Guard members, and those referred through the Drug and Veterans Courts.

Services offered include job assistance, employment training, links to medical and mental health services, life skills classes, peer support groups, and peer coaching and mentoring. These services are provided by competent staff/peer leaders to ensure participants’ needs are being identified and met through assessment and case management.

Funding for this program is provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). All services are free and confidential.

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This team member has the responsibility to carry out mentoring or coaching with recovery parternship participants. Recovery coaching refers to a one-on-one relationship in which a peer leader has more recovery experience than the person served. A recovery coach encourages, motivates, and supports a peer who is seeking to establish or strengthen his or her recovery. This individual will provide mentoring, guidance, support services, and offer their skills to others who are on a road to their own recovery.

As a peer coach, you will mentor peers with tasks such as setting recovery goals, developing recovery action plans, and solving problems directly related to recovery. This includes finding sober housing, making new friends, finding new uses of spare time, and improving one’s job skills. They may also provide assistancec with issues that arise in connection with collateral problems such as having a criminal justice record or coexisting physical or mental challenges. The Peer Recovery Coach assists in basic job readiness skills that include resume building and job searches, links to vocational rehabilitation, work force development, vocational schools, and colleges.

The relationship of the peer leader to the peer receiving help is highly supportive, rather than directive. The duration of the relationship between the two depends on a number of factors such as how much recovery time the peer has, how much other support the peer is receiving, or how quickly the peer’s most pressing problems can be addressed. The Coach helps peers in early recovery make choices about which recovery pathway(s) will work for them, rather than urging them to adopt the mentor’s or coach’s own program or any specific program of recovery.

 

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Program Partners at SAFB

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.

 

 

The mission of WE SPEAK UP FOR THE VOICELESS, Inc. is a State recognized Nonprofit designed to provide awareness, prevention, intervention, knowledge on social issues utilizing performing arts throughout the community and linkage to community resources in regards to mental health, HIV, family violence, substance abuse and trauma.

 

 

 

R&B music for a lot of people that are going through everyday issues that some of us at some point or everyday have to face such as break-ups, unfaithful partners, crime life, struggles, and poverty can reach out to your heart and in a way give you the strength to carry on. Elements of R&B such as Strong demanding but similar lyrics, various sounds ranging from up beats, motivational beats, angry beats and slow beats can bring the true self out of us and teach us to accept us the way we are. It also teaches a lot of people to stand up for what they believe in and to not tolerate any form of disrespect for anybody regardless who they are and how much you love them.