Mark your calendar! The 9th Annual Run for Your Life 5K Run & Recovery Walk will be held on Saturday, September 20th. Join us at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island for music, entertainment, children’s activities and more in commemoration of National...
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Preparing for Managed Care: Staff Credentialing, Evidence-Based Practices, and Fiscal Systems
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEWS By Gary Harmon, PhD Vice President, Director of Research & Grants, and Peter Provet, PhD President & CEO, Odyssey House For decades, behavioral health (BH) professionals have fought for the right to have mental health (MH) and substance...
More police officers to be trained to administrate heroin antidote Narcan
News 12 Bronx More law enforcement agencies statewide will soon be trained on how to administrate the heroin antidote Narcan. Narcan takes just three minutes to revive a person overdosing on heroin or prescription pain medication by pushing the drug out of their...
Preventing heroin overdoses
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is spearheading an effort to equip more law enforcement officers with the heroin antidote Narcan. It takes just three minutes to revive a person overdosing on heroin or prescription pain medication by pushing the drug...
Odyssey House opens second supportive housing program in the Bronx
More than 100 community leaders, government partners, Odyssey House board members, staff and supporters gathered in the Bronx on April 24th for the Tinton Avenue ribbon cutting ceremony. Tinton Avenue is our second supportive housing program to open in this month.The...
First green supportive housing building opens in the Bronx
Odyssey House officially opened its first green supportive housing building on Thursday, April 10th. Located on Soundview Avenue, the building provides permanent housing for 56 single, low income adults living with special needs. We'll be posting more photos and...
Two new designs for supportive housing
e-Oculus Urban Architectural Initiatives has completed two supportive housing projects in the Bronx for single, low-income adults living with special needs, developed by the social service agency Odyssey House. The five-story, 35,000-square-foot project on Soundview...
Mentally Ill, in Prison and Outside
In Saturday's edition of The New York Times, Odyssey House President & CEO Dr. Peter Provet is one of several experts commenting on a recent article examining the growing number of people with severe mental illness who are coming into contact with the criminal...
Green Housing Ribbon Cutting
See the News 12 Bronx coverage of the ribbon cutting ceremony for our Soundview Avenue supportive housing program.
Celebrating women of strength
Friendships between women are special. In their friendships, women tend to share feelings and problems more than men do with friends; and in times of stress or anxiety, women are more likely to turn to their friends and confidantes for emotional relief.Many people...
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