Photos from the SHNNY gala

Check out these photos from the Supportive Housing Network of New York (SHNNY) gala in which Odyssey House Haven was awarded the 2009 "Outstanding Residence of the Year."

(Photos courtesy of SHNNY)

Odyssey House President & CEO Peter Provet (right) accepting the 2009 "Outstanding Residence of the Year" award from SHNNY Executive Director Ted Houghton (left) and SHNNY Steering Committee Chair Carole Gordon (center).

Odyssey House Director of Community Housing Janice Glenn-Slaughter (far right) with her staff from the Haven.

Odyssey House featured in national AP story on expanding drug treatment

Associated Press national feature story, “Expanding Drug Treatment: Is US Ready to Step Up?,” was picked up by more than 240 news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR and the Los Angeles Times. In the article, Odyssey House President Peter Provet and Darrin Brown, who directs our new parolee treatment program, discuss the merits of drug treatment as an alternative to incarceration. The news package also includes a video, featuring Dr. Provet and Director of OASAS Residential Services Susan Plaza, which can viewed below.

Odyssey House develops family health educational initiative with support from Aetna

Odyssey House is pleased to announce that Aetna is supporting the development of a new health education initiative aimed at improving overall physical health and quality of life for young families in treatment at Odyssey House. The $25,000 grant will allow Odyssey House to develop an enhanced health literacy program for pregnant women, women with infants, and parents with young children residing at the Family Center of Excellence.

Dr. Peter Provet, President of Odyssey House thanked Aetna for its ongoing support and partnership of services that improve the health and wellbeing of families in treatment. “We are grateful to Aetna for joining us investing in families while they are in treatment – an investment that pays off in helping families manage their health today, and in preparation for healthier lives tomorrow when they complete our program.“

For the majority of residents in our Family Center of Excellence Program, poor health literacy typically manifests itself in a pretreatment history of a disproportionate use of emergency room facilities, misunderstanding of and failure to follow treatment and prescription instructions, and low levels of participation in preventive screening - all of which can lead to poorer health status for themselves and their children.

The Healthy Literacy Curriculum is made up of three key health components:

• Access to healthcare: basic knowledge and understanding of the health care system, empowering parents to better communicate and be active participants in their family health care needs, and connecting them to a community-based health care provider upon completion of Odyssey House treatment;


• Power of prevention: knowledge of preventative and routine healthcare measures for themselves and their children including emergency medicine, immunizations, preventive screening, dispensing medicine and child development; and


• Healthy eating: develop parents’ understanding of how healthy eating relates to the prevention and control of chronic diseases for themselves and their children.

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