Annual Report 2019
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ANNUAL rebuilding lives since 1968 REPORT 2019 recovery treatment hope 1 2020 BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXECUTIVE MESSAGE Frederic N. Futterman, Esq. Ronald K. Andrews Joseph A. Hayden, Jr., Esq. Dear Friend: Chairperson Prudential Financial Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, P.C. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of In New Jersey, more than 3,000 people died of a preventable drug New Jersey Christine Baker, Ph.D. Cheryl Ann Kennedy, M.D., DFAPA overdose in 2019. 1 The opioid epidemic has had a devastating impact on Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Rutgers New Jersey Medical School 2 Deirdre R. Malloy all groups; still, treatment disparities prevail in underserved communities. Vice Chairperson Lourival Baptista Neto, MD, MPH David G. Kostinas At Integrity House, we believe all are worthy of recovery. Lord & Powers, LLC Columbia University Medical Center David G. Kostinas & Associates In 2019, Integrity set out to make treatment more accessible for the most Geoffrey S. Perselay, Esq. Ron Beit Barbara L. Melone vulnerable with substance addiction: minority, female, and homeless groups. Secretary RBH Group, LLC Perselay Associates, Inc. Mary Elizabeth O’Connor This year’s Annual Report highlights the organization’s achievements in Matthew J. Chanin, CFA Educational Consultant this regard – the expansion of our medication-assisted treatment program, securing major funding for a women’s recovery center, and maintaining Tai M. Cooper Maria J. Ortiz, Ed.D. robust community partnerships that allow Integrity House to reach those New Jersey Economic Newark Public Schools who need its help the most. This report also includes programmatic and Development Authority financial data, and recognizes our major funding sources and donors. Mary E. Rone Daniel DeTrolio Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc. Aakash Shah, M.D. The staunch support of our Board of Trustees, staff, and friends like you makes it possible for Integrity House to continue Hackensack Meridian Health to offer addiction treatment that inspires hope and rebuilds lives. With that support, we look forward to continuing to serve Michael Festa, Ph.D. all New Jersey communities in 2020 and beyond. County of Essex Kenneth J. Smith Department of Health Torcon, Inc. Thank you. Carmelo G. Garcia, MSIS, IM, Darrell K. Terry, Sr. CPM Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Irvington Housing Authority Children’s Hospital of New Jersey Robert J. Budsock Frederic N. Futterman, Esq. Decision-Makers LLC President & Chief Executive Officer Chairperson, Board of Trustees Joseph W. Walsh Victor Gomperts, Esq. PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Dennis Bone Scott A. Kobler, Esq. Montclair State University McCarter & English James M. Burns, Esq. Reverend John Clinton Reynolds Genova Burns 1. The Office of the New Jersey Coordinator for Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies. (2019). Overdose deaths. Retrieved from https://www.njcares.gov/ Jennifer G. Velez 2. Bebinger, M. (May 8, 2019). Addiction medicine mostly prescribed to whites, even as opioid deaths rose among blacks. Kaiser Health News. Retrieved from https://khn.org/ Bernie Flynn RWJBarnabas Health news/addiction-medicine-mostly-prescribed to-whites-even-as-opioid-deaths-rose-among-blacks/ 2 3 INTEGRITY HOUSE VALUES Integrity House has always maintained that with a loving and supportive environment, compassionate treatment, and education and employment services, long-term recovery from substance use is possible. By staying true to our values and core belief that individuals with addiction can and do recover, Integrity House has helped countless people achieve recovery and lead happy, healthy, and rewarding lives. INTEGRITY COMMITMENT COMPASSION honesty, fairness, and ethical practices being a good neighbor and devotion never turning an individual away from have resulted in strong partnerships with to community are embedded in our treatment because of their inability federal, state, and local government foundation: the therapeutic community to pay for our services because all referral sources for over 50 years are worthy of recovery “There’s something about seeing a person filled with desperation one minute and hope in the next moment.” – Robin Shorter EXCELLENCE TEAMWORK Integrity House Senior Director of Community Engagement Robin Shorter (left), Cooper University Health Care Assistant Professor delivering evidence based treatment our diverse staff and board work of Emergency Medicine Dr. Matthew S. Salzman (center, left), Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in licensed programs and maintaining collaboratively to offer high-quality Dr. Erin Zerbo (center, right), and Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division CARF accreditation at the highest services to everyone of Addiction Psychiatry Dr. Jill M. Williams (right) discussed how to make addiction treatment mainstream during Integrity House’s level since 1997 symposium: “Progressive Responses to the Opioid Epidemic” – Nov. 19, 2019 4 5 WHO WE SERVE TOTAL ADMISSIONS: 3,688 PRIMARY DRUG GENDER 7.3% 18.8% Other Substances Alcohol 13.6% Marijuana Male: 68.3% Female: 31.6% 7.8% Cocaine/Crack 52.3% RACE 1.8% Heroin & Other Other Opiates 19% Latinx 44.6% LEVEL OF CARE White 34.7% Black 37.1% Long-term 44.9% Residential Outpatient (PC, IOP, OP) COUNTY OF RESIDENCE COUNTY OF RESIDENCE Atlantic: 5% Gloucester: 2.2% Ocean: 8.9% Bergen: 2.1% Hudson: 23.6% Passaic: 3.6% Atlantic: 5% Burlington: .9% Hunterdon: .8% Salem: .3% 10.7 Bergen: 2.1% Camden: 4.4% Mercer: 1.4% Somerset: 1.7% Short-term Cape May: 1.8% Middlesex: 4.4% Sussex: 1.5% 7.3% Residential Burlington: .9% Halfway House Camden: 4.4% Cumberland: .5% Monmouth: 2.3% Union: 2.6% Cape May: 1.8% 6.5% Essex: 19.8% Morris: 11% Warren: 1.2% 6.5% Cumberland: .5% MAT Planned in Treatment Other: .1% MAT Planned in Treatment Essex: 19.8% Gloucester: 2.2% MEET ALEX 75.0% Hudson: 23.6% DISCHARGE DATA Hunterdon: .8% 70.0% “Three days after being released from prison, I was introduced to Integrity’s STAR program. I was homeless, broke, and alone. Integrity New Jersey Department of Human Services, Mercer: 1.4% staff quickly showed me how I can live a productive life without the use of drugs and alcohol. I had a suspended license, no car, and no 65.0% Division of Mental Health and Addiction moneyMiddlesex: to afford4.4% the $2 bus fare. STAR staff would pick me up and help guide me through the day. Whether it was to a 12-step meeting, Integrity House Services. (2019). Substance Abuse Treatment Monmouth: 2.3% 60.0% Provider Performance Report 7/1/2018 – Morris:food pantry, 11% or social services, the support was there for me by simply asking… I spent over four months homeless...The program 6/30/2019. Retrieved from Ocean:assisted 8.9% me in getting funding for housing… Life continues to happen and STAR continues to get me through it!” 55.0% https://njsams.rutgers.edu/NJSAMS Passaic: 3.6% State Average 50.0% Integrity’sSalem: .3% Toms River location has housed the Ocean County Support Team for Addiction Recovery (STAR) since 2018. The Somerset: 1.7% Not Using Achieved Employment Achieved program offers case management, recovery support, and community linkages to Ocean County residents with opioid use disorder. Alcohol or Drugs or Vocational Goals Legal Goals Sussex: 1.5% 6 Union: 2.6% 7 Warren: 1.2% Other: .1% 2019 HIGHLIGHTS PROGRAMMING FUNDRAISING • In November, Integrity House honored ADVOCACY & EDUCATION • In November, Integrity House, in • In November, Integrity House NJ State Senator Joseph P. Cryan collaboration with Rutgers New Jersey President & CEO went “One-on-One” • With a $1.5 million award from the • In May, the annual Golf Classic at and raised over $100,000 for women’s • Throughout 2019, Integrity House Medical School and Seton Hall Law, with Steve Adubato, Jr. to discuss Substance Abuse and Mental Health Essex County Country Club raised programs and services at its annual President & CEO Robert J. Budsock hosted a symposium: “Progressive helping underserved communities Services Administration (SAMHSA), ______________________________________$50,000 gala: “Under the Autumn Moon” demanded treatment equity, Responses to the Opioid Epidemic” facing opioid addiction Integrity House expanded its medication- Thanks to the supporters of a special compassion, and resource expansion assisted treatment (MAT) program ______________________________________ appeal at the Golf Classic, more than for the most vulnerable substance In 2019, Integrity House provided 370 individuals received one hour users, including minorities and those MAT to 212 individuals through the of specialized mental health group facing homelessness, in the following SAMHSA funded MAT program. therapy by licensed clinicians. op-eds: – “Murphy’s Plan for Tackling NJ’s Opioid Crisis Builds on Christie’s • Integrity House maintained its • In October, the annual 5k run in Work,” co-authored with former three-year accreditation from the Newark’s downtown raised over Integrity House Board Chair Dr. Commission on Accreditation Facilities $20,000 with the support of Integrity Christine Baker (CARF) House’s corporate partners ______________________________________ – “Our Battle Against the Opioid Integrity House has been accredited COMMUNITY • Integrity House received $235,000 Epidemic Shouldn’t Just Be In the by CARF at the highest level since The symposium included the participation of dozens • In 2019, Integrity House continued to from an anonymous foundation in order Suburbs, Among the Wealthy” of medical, legal, and treatment experts including