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GRANTEE FOCUS: Port Counseling Center: A Division of Long Island Reach

March 19, 2024 Robert Keller

Long Island Reach (Reach), founded in 1970, is a community-based, multi-service agency providing a broad range of rehabilitative and treatment services to youth and their families, serving residents of Nassau County and here in Port Washington through the Port Counseling Center on Main Street.

The Need

Long Island is at the height of the opioid epidemic. Every two days on Long Island, three people die of a drug overdose. A significant amount of the Long Island population either suffers from a substance abuse disorder or has been impacted by addiction. The Port Counseling Center is committed to working with a high-risk population of community residents of all ages and their families to engage and help them learn better ways to cope with their rage, their depression, and their pain; to enhance self-esteem and to develop their self-awareness and to help seek creative alternatives to self-destructive drug and alcohol abuse, aberrant and anti-social behavior.

How They Help

The Port Counseling Center's professional staff consists of a consulting psychiatrist, psychologists, and social workers, one of whom is bilingual. All are fully licensed and experienced in providing counseling and psychotherapy services.

Chemical Dependency Treatment Program

REACH professionals in this program include an experienced team including a psychiatrist, psychologists, nurse practitioners, social workers, and mental health counselors who serve clients struggling with substance use and their family members.

Referrals are accepted from all community resources and residents. An initial evaluation can be made by telephone appointment or by walking into the Port Counseling Center, located at 225 Main Street. An intake appointment will be scheduled within a few days.

Confidentiality

Families and teens in the midst of a crisis need a place they can go without worrying that confidential matters are handled with the utmost discretion. All Port Counseling Center clients can be assured that all client records, regardless of program, are protected by the Federal Regulations (42 C.F.R. Part 2) pertaining to Substance Abuse Services and are also protected by HIPAA. Our teens are further protected under New York State Public Health Law (Section 27A) Regarding HIV and Aids Services. 

How Your Donations Help

Though the Port Counseling Center does its best to manage patient expenses, not all Port residents can afford the cost of receiving the help they need. Your donations help to subsidize those expenses, so no Port teen is turned away from getting the help they need.

 How to Get In Touch

Port Counseling Center, a division of Long Island Reach
225 Main Street, Port Washington, NY 11050,
Tel. 516-767-1133

← An Interview With Community Chest Board Member : Michele Hyde →
 

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