2017 Annual Report Reaching Out, Making Connections, and Following Through with Treatment and Housing Services That Change Lives Is Demanding Work
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2017 Annual Report Reaching out, making connections, and following through with treatment and housing services that change lives is demanding work. The men and women who work in Odyssey House’s community-based programs understand what is at stake when substance misuse or mental health problems are not treated. While they see the pain of addiction and the tragedy of lives cut short, they also see hope in recovery and lives saved. Helping New Yorkers overcome life challenges keeps us going and keeps us on the front lines. In this report, read about how volunteer recovery coach Jesse Westbrook and his colleagues at the Odyssey House Recovery Center are reaching out and connecting with families, adolescents, and seniors in their South Bronx community. Building community and saving lives IT IS THE MISSION OF ODYSSEY HOUSE: To provide comprehensive and innovative services to the broadest range of metro New York’s population who: • Abuse drugs • Abuse alcohol • Suffer from mental illness To provide high quality, holistic treatment impacting all major life spheres: psychological, physical, social, family, educational and spiritual. To support personal rehabilitation, renewal and family restoration. In all of its activities, Odyssey House undertakes to act as a responsible employer and member of the community, and manage the assets of the organization in a professional manner. 1 WHAT YOU CANNOT DO ALONE, WE CAN DO TOGETHER Treatment and recovery services are at the heart of treatment programs. However, treatment is of what we provide at Odyssey House. Supporting just the beginning of what it takes to save a New Yorkers and their families as they overcome life. Individual treatment plans that incorporate addiction, mental illness, homelessness, and housing, educational/vocational and medical medical challenges is our core mission. Our services are the best route to a sustained mission is continuously evolving as we enhance recovery. For some people with opioid addiction, services to meet the needs of our communities medication assisted treatment is an effective and incorporate the latest scientific and behavioral way to reduce deadly overdose risk and allows research into our treatment. them to pursue treatment goals. We offer all the With 66,000 American lives lost to drug latest medications and some old ones – such as overdoses last year, the majority due to opioid methadone maintenance – to meet their needs. misuse, our mission is critical and there is no As the needs of our community evolves, time to lose. The opioid epidemic is killing more we have extended our reach into a wide range of people than at the height of the HIV/AIDS behavioral health, medical, and housing services epidemic in the 1990s and surpasses all other all the while paying attention to the needs of the accidental deaths in America including on the people we serve to live with dignity, respecting roads and by guns. themselves and others. In the last year, we trained more than Our mission is as critical today as it was 1,000 staff, treatment participants, and members when Odyssey House opened its doors more than of the public in opioid overdose prevention fifty years ago in response to a heroin epidemic techniques using naloxone, a fast-acting opioid in 1967. Moreover, while treatment services reversal medication. This life-saving medication have improved with research and scientific is widely available in all our treatment, housing, innovations, the heart of our services still resides medical, and administrative offices. We have also in the passion of the staff, board members, and extended training services to corporations who countless family and friends who support the are eager to equip their employees with the tools men, women, and children who are determined to save a life, and our trainers have conducted to turn their lives around. workshops at organizations ranging from health insurers to marketing agencies. Thank you for your support. As the epidemic shows no sign of abating, our call to action is urgent and we are grateful Peter Provet, Ph.D. to all of you who joined us this year in support President and CEO 2 A COMMITMENT TO SAVING LIVES The opioid epidemic Keeping this impressive range of programs is a game changer. In up and running in a city as diverse and costly the last year alone, as New York is a team effort. That is why I’m so more than 66,000 grateful to Commissioner Arlene González- Americans died from Sánchez and her team at New York State Office drug-related causes, of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, the majority from as well as to Dr. Martha Sullivan and her team at opioid overdoses. New York State Office of Mental Health, for their This epidemic is investments in community-based services. I am continuing to ravage also appreciative of the support we receive from communities across the Department of Corrections and Community the country, killing men and women from all Supervision to address addiction in the criminal walks of life. In cities, suburbs and small towns, justice arena. emergency responders, hospital personnel, In New York City, we thank the Human employers and co-workers, mothers and fathers, Resources Administration and the Department brothers and sisters, husbands and wives are on of Housing Preservation and Development, the front lines of a scourge that is hollowing out elected representatives, community and business families and communities. leaders, neighborhood associations, other social It has to stop. And by working together service providers, and our public health and to support treatment and prevention efforts, we safety representatives. believe it will. And on the national level, we thank our In the last year, we’ve started to see signs partners at the Substance Abuse and Mental that the death rate has leveled off. This is good Health Services Administration and the White news, but it’s not enough. Opioid abuse is the House Office of National Drug Control Policy. most serious public health crisis in a generation Finally, I’d like to thank the clinical, – and is poised to become the same for the next, administrative and management staffs; my if we cannot stop parents from dying and young colleagues on the Boards of Trustees; our people from becoming addicted. philanthropic, corporate, and foundation partners; These are issues that concern me and my and the many friends of Odyssey House who colleagues on the Boards of Odyssey House support us year after year. and Odyssey Foundation. Knowing that we can By investing in Odyssey House, you have help save, and rebuild, lives is what drives us to joined a community that believes helping the most support treatment and recovery programs that vulnerable among us, helps us all. I can think of are among the best in the business. All Odyssey no better investment. Thank you for joining. House treatment and housing services are backed by evidence-based research that has consistently Sincerely, demonstrated the success of Medication-Assisted Treatment, supportive housing, vocational and Richard C. O’Connor educational services. Chairman, Odyssey House 3 WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER In 2017, Odyssey House provided: 262,435 17,327 DAYS OF RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT OUTPATIENT VISITS 8,440 454 PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE AND DENTAL VISITS SUBSIDIZED SUPPORTIVE HOUSING APARTMENTS 24,800 4,470 MENTAL HEALTH HOUSING CASE CLASSROOM HOURS MANAGEMENT HOURS 4 WHERE FAMILY COMES FIRST At Odyssey House, pregnant women and parents with children can stay together, helping to build stronger families. Our Family Center gives a mom what she needs for herself and for her newborn, toddler or preschooler. 5 WHO WE SERVE Edgecombe,* residential, and outpatient treatment 2 017 Treatment population 30% 52% 18% Edgecombe Clients Residential Clients Outpatient Clients (624) (1,081) (361) * Edgecombe Specialized Chemical Dependence Services is an Odyssey House-operated, 45-day community supervision program in a medium security correctional facility in Northern Manhattan. Total clients served 2,066 Male: 624 (100%) Female: 0 (0%) Male: 809 (75%) Female: 272 (25%) Male: 229 (63%) Female: 132 (37%) Edgecombe Clients Residential Clients Outpatient Clients Education at admission Ages served at admission 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Edgecombe Edgecombe Some high school 268 12 to 25 164 HS/GED 314 26 to 55 440 Some College/degree 42 56 and above 20 Residential Residential Some high school 436 12 to 25 144 HS/GED 402 26 to 55 755 Some College/degree 243 56 and above 182 Outpatient Outpatient Some high school 162 12 to 25 70 HS/GED 134 26 to 55 254 Some College/degree 65 56 and above 37 6 Race/ethnicity Living 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% arrangements Edgecombe prior to White 25 Black 423 admission Other/Unknown 169 American Indian/Asian/Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 7 Homeless* Hispanic origin* 211 Residential White 192 Edgecombe 15% (93) Black 592 Residential 41% (445) Other/Unknown 282 Outpatient 6% (22) American Indian/Asian/Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 15 Hispanic origin* 340 Private Residence Outpatient White 34 Black 187 Other/Unknown 132 American Indian/Asian/Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 8 Edgecombe 84% (525) Residential 40% (434) Hispanic origin* 206 Outpatient 74% (270) *Persons who report themselves as Hispanic can be of any race. US Census Bureau. Supportive Housing Housing services Primary drug at admission Odyssey House operates 454 units of independent supportive housing 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% apartments throughout NYC Edgecombe Alcohol 77 1% (6) units Crack/Cocaine 43 Edgecombe 2017-18 454 of supportive housing Heroin/Opiates 35 Residential 12% (130) Marijuana 461 Outpatient 20% (69) Other 8 Employment Institution 14% (144) of residential clients Residential left treatment with a full time job Alcohol 264 Crack/Cocaine 14% (144) 226 2017-18 full time employment Heroin/Opiates 306 Marijuana 218 Other 67 Edgecombe 0% Reduction in daily drug use at Residential 7% (72) admission vs discharge Outpatient Outpatient 0% Alcohol 67 Edgecombe: 87% Crack/Cocaine 58 * 94% of residential who were 2017-18 Residential: 94% Heroin/Opiates 35 homeless upon admission Outpatient: 75% Marijuana 191 to treatment (445) were not homeless upon discharge (28).