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Peer advocates are uniquely positioned to help alleviate the burden by focusing on clients coming into the emergency room for Substance use and behavioral health related illness during the COVID pandemic. New York has been identified as an epicenter for the COVID-19...

Learn how to provide evidence-based, high-quality treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) in a variety of clinical settings. The collaboration combines continuing education, consultation, and clinical support from content experts throughout five, online sessions. To...

Staten Island PPS has partnered with the MIT Sloan School of Management Health Systems Innovation Initiative  to bring together partners from across the nation to form a National Collaborative Consortium on Substance Use Disorder, with the aim of combating the opioid...

Congratulations to the graduates of the Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) program at the College of Staten Island! These 16 peers will be on the front lines serving our community in the battle against opioid addiction. Each person brings their own unique...

With a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) through the Opioid Workforce Expansion Program (OWEP) Paraprofessionals program, SI PPS will train 240 behavioral health-related peer paraprofessionals during the three-year grant period Staten...

After a non-fatal opioid overdose, a patient’s first step toward recovery is more of a leap – equally colossal and terrifying. In Staten Island hospital emergency rooms, such patients have an empathetic hand to hold as they make that jump. Available 24 hours a day,...