WABC-TV Lock Your Meds Campaign Comes To Odyssey House Melanie R., a young woman in treatment at the Odyssey House Lafayette Avenue Teen Girls Program, was interviewed last night about prescription drug abuse by Dr. Jay Adlersberg, WABC-7’s health and medical reporter. Melanie spoke about how easy it is for…
The Odyssey House Theatre Project for adolescents in treatment will start a new season of performance, writing, and production skills training in early 2011, thanks to a $38,500 grant from the Elizabeth and Barets O. Benjamin Charitable Foundation. This is the third grant the Foundation has made to this…
Odyssey House will be developing a new health and wellness initiative called the Creating Healthy Eating Families (CHEF) curriculum through a $25,000 grant from Aetna. The new program will provide hands-on nutrition and cooking classes for mothers living with their children in the Odyssey House Family Centers. The grant will…
The New York Times published a letter to the editor by Odyssey House President Dr. Provet on the dangers caffeinated alcoholic beverages pose to underage drinkers. Read the letter below and let us know what you think. To read the original article, click here.
Coverage of this year’s Run for Your Life event, as well as news of Odyssey House staff member Jeremy King’s selection as CASAC-T of the Year, were featured in the October edition of New York Nonprofit Press.
Addiction Professional by Gary A. Enos, Editor Odyssey House sees peer-run services as a pivotal trend for the field. The president and CEO of New York City-based addiction treatment organization Odyssey House sees his field as increasingly successful in engaging people into treatment but less adept in extending recovery…