July 1, 2019 │
Behavioral Health News, Summer 2019
As behavioral health care providers confront the unrelenting opioid epidemic, in an environment of rapidly evolving reforms in health delivery and payment systems, one theme continues to resonate: the importance of
July 11, 2018 │
http://www.queensledger.com/pages/full_story/push?article-New+Outreach+leader+looks+to+improve+access+to+services%20&id=27583313/
After nearly four decades with Kathleen Riddle at the helm, substance abuse treatment organization Outreach has a new leader. On June 30, Riddle, the nonprofit’s founder, president and CEO, formally retired. After leading
July 10, 2018 │
https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2018/27/riddleretirement_2018_07_06_q.html/
Kathleen Riddle, the founder and chief executive officer of the non-profit and substance abuse treatment center Outreach in Richmond Hill, officially stepped down Saturday after coming up with the idea for the organization
July 10, 2018 │
https://www.nynmedia.com/content/outreach-substance-abuse-treatment-nonprofit/
I come from a generation of founders of mission-driven organizations who didn’t think about being CEOs – they were driven by a sense of purpose. Identifying the gaps in treatment
April 12th, 2018 │
https://patch.com/new-york/southampton/tears-painful-truths-hope-task-forces-2nd-opioid-forum/
Stories of heartbreak and hope intermingled Wednesday night as the human faces of the opioid crisis, raging from young to old and from all walks of life
February 4, 2018 │
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/opioids-overdose-li-1.16502706
Authorities are projecting as many as 600 people on Long Island died last year from opioid overdoses, part of a national epidemic that caused more than 60,000 fatalities in 2016. The total number
January 25, 2018 │
https://cseany.org/workforce/csea-regions/region-1/season-of-giving-never-ends-for-the-long-island-womens-committee/
CSEA members consistently give back to the communities in which we live and work. One more recent display of generosity comes from our Long Island Region Women’s Committee who
August 7, 2017 │
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3440470
Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters' Local 290 senior council representative and team leader Anthony Macagnone was recently honored by Outreach, a New York-based drug and alcohol treatment services provider, for his
July 20, 2017 │
http://liherald.com/fivetowns/stories/looking-to-get-ahead-of-the-addiction-problem,93853
As of March 2017 the New York State Department of Health data shows that deaths attributed to opioid overdose in Nassau County decreased from September of 2015 to the same month in 2016. However,
November 4, 2016 │
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-expansion-addiction-treatment-and-prevention-services-long-island
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the expansion of addiction treatment and prevention services on Long Island with the groundbreaking of a $4.6 million community residence center in Brentwood,