Casa Esperanza’s Men’s Program focuses on serving individuals:
- struggling with alcohol or substance use, mental illness, and other chronic medical conditions
- without secure and stable housing
- living with HIV/AIDS
- re-entering from incarceration
The program typically lasts 6-9 months, although all programming is tailored to the needs of each client and family.
All of Casa’s services are research-based and available in both Spanish and English. Our services include:
- Substance abuse counseling
- Care coordination and case management
- Relapse prevention, anger management, life skills and other psycho education and therapeutic groups
- Family education, reunification, and case management
- Parenting education
- Supervised visitation
- HIV education, counseling, and case management
- Tobacco cessation education and counseling
- Recreational, wellness and stress management programming, including meditation, yoga, nutrition, running/walking groups, and sober social activities
- Linkages to domestic violence, medical, legal, employment and educational services
Also available on campus:
- Individual psychotherapy
- Psychiatry
- Primary care
- Peer Recovery Coaching
- HIV counseling and testing
- Structured Outpatient Addictions Program
- A range of therapeutic groups; including Seeking Safety, Recovery and Reentry, Relapse Prevention, DBT skills, Health and Recovery Peer program, Illness Management and Recovery, among others
- Employment and education readiness, coaching and placement
Rumbo a Casa/The Way Home
Casa Esperanza Men’s Program provides specialized services to Latino men reentering from incarceration, funded by a grant from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Rumbo a Casa staff work closely with courts, corrections, probation, and parole to help reduce relapse and recidivism and foster long-term recovery in men struggling with co-occurring addictions and mental health disorders.
Assessment and assertive engagement strategies begin while individuals are still incarcerated, to ensure a successful transition to treatment and support in the community. Reentering citizens receive integrated substance use, mental health, and primary care treatment and comprehensive, reentry-oriented recovery support services. In addition to intensive case management to address immediate needs, there is a focus on developing and meeting long-term employment and education goals to help reentering citizens build meaningful, purposeful lives in the community.
Tu Bienestar/Your Wellness
Casa Esperanza Men’s Program offers specialized services to address the complex clinical needs of men living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic medical conditions. Clients receive on-campus access to integrated primary care, medical case management, psychiatry, mental health counseling, and peer and social supports. A dedicated Treatment Coordinator/Health Navigator provides culturally appropriate education and information about addiction, mental illness, HIV, and other chronic medical conditions using the RESPECT intervention; engages clients in groups that reduce isolation and stigma, while increasing health literacy and self-efficacy; provides counseling, coaching, and care coordination; and empowers clients with the skills, supports, and confidence necessary to navigate complex systems of care and make informed decisions about their health.
“At Casa Esperanza I stayed motivated because I had a plan for living. I learned to be independent, hold a job and reconnect with my family. That’s what gave me the strength to keep going.”
For more information or intakes please contact Casa Esperanza.
The Latinas y Niños Center is a six-to-twelve-month residential treatment program for women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction.
Casa Esperanza, Inc.’s Latinas y Niños Program focuses on serving adult women:
- struggling with alcohol or substance use, mental illness, and other chronic medical conditions
- without secure and stable housing
- who are single, pregnant, and/or have children 10 years of age and under
- living with HIV/AIDS
- re-entering from incarceration
All of Casa’s services are research-based and available in both Spanish and English. Our services include:
- Substance abuse counseling
- Care coordination and case management
- Relapse prevention, anger management, life skills and other psycho education and therapeutic groups
- Family education, reunification, and case management with children 10 and under
- Parenting education
- Supervised visitation
- HIV education, counseling, and case management
- Tobacco cessation education and counseling
- Recreational, wellness and stress management programming, including meditation, yoga, nutrition, running/walking groups, and sober social activities
- Linkages to domestic violence, medical, legal, employment and educational services
Also available on campus:
- Individual psychotherapy
- Psychiatry
- Primary care
- Peer Recovery Coaching
- HIV counseling and testing
- Structured Outpatient Addictions Program
- A range of therapeutic groups; including Seeking Safety, Recovery and Reentry, Relapse Prevention, DBT skills, Health and Recovery Peer program, Illness Management and Recovery, among others
- Employment and education readiness, coaching and placement
Rumbo a Casa/The Way Home
Latinas y Niños offers specialized services to Latinas reentering from incarceration. Rumbo a Casa staff work closely with courts, corrections, probation, and parole to help reduce relapse and recidivism and foster long-term recovery. Assessment and assertive engagement strategies begin while individuals are still incarcerated, to ensure a more successful transition. In addition to integrated substance use, mental health, and primary care treatment and comprehensive, reentry-oriented recovery support services, there is a focus on developing and meeting long-term employment and education goals to help reentering citizens build meaningful, purposeful lives in the community.
Tu Bienestar/Your Wellness
Casa Esperanza delivers outreach and services to women at high risk for HIV, also funded by a SAMHSA grant. Tu Bienestar uses assertive outreach strategies to provide culturally appropriate HIV/STI/HEP education, information, counseling, and testing to Latinas living with addictions and mental illness using the RESPECT intervention. Health Navigators educate and empower at-risk Latinas to increase their awareness of HIV risk behaviors (including trauma-related behaviors), learn safer sex practices, and make informed decisions about their medical and behavioral health. They also provide care coordination and integrated addictions, mental health, and medical case management for women at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic medical conditions.
“It was a big step to say ‘I need help’, but from day one, the staff and tools were there for me. It helped me discover a lot of things I didn’t realize about my life, but also helps me put the past in the past, and to look to the future. It gave back the strength to live, without using.”
-Latinas y Niños Client
Salud y Sustento/Health & Wellness for Women
Latinas y Niños provides specialized services to pregnant and post-partum women, funded by a grant from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). These services are aimed at increasing safe and healthy pregnancies, improving birth outcomes, stabilizing families, building child-parent attachment, and reducing intergenerational transmission of trauma. Women receive integrated substance use, mental health, and medical and wellness services through a trauma-informed Health Home model. Individual and group trauma work using the Seeking Safety model supports women in their recovery, while Child-Parent Psychotherapy and Nurturing Program interventions help build parenting skills and healthy attachment between mothers and children. These interventions are supported by intensive family case management, employment and education support, and peer recovery coaching.
For more information or intakes please contact Casa Esperanza.
Familias Unidas Outpatient Services is a licensed, CARF-accredited mental health clinic that provides culturally competent, integrated substance use, mental health, and primary care services, including Greater Boston’s only Spanish-language Structured Outpatient Addictions Program (SOAP).
Services:
- Comprehensive Assessment
- Psychiatric Services, including Medication Evaluation and Management
- Medication-Assisted Treatment, including: Suboxone, Vivitrol, Naltrexone
- Structured Outpatient Addictions Program (SOAP)
- Primary Care
- HIV/HCV/STI Counseling and Testing
- Recovery Support Services, including Case Management, Peer Recovery Coaching, and a Community Support Program
Individual, Family, and Group Psychotherapy, such as:
- DBT Skills
- Anger Management
- Parenting in Early Recovery
- Trauma and Recovery
- Grief and Bereavement
- Relapse Prevention
- Dual Diagnosis
- Dual Diagnosis for Court-Involved Individuals
- Medication Management
- Health and Peer Recovery Program
Our Commitment:
- Walk-in services
- All services available in Spanish and English
- Experienced clinicians work as a multidisciplinary team
- Confidentiality and mutual respect
- Welcoming environment
- Personalized treatment plan
- Clear communication about treatment and progress
SOAP
The Enhanced Structured Outpatient Addictions Program (SOAP) is a day treatment program designed to address the needs of individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. SOAP is for clients in early recovery who are at high risk for relapse and/or overdose and require a more intensive level of care than outpatient services or a step-down from inpatient services.
Led by our multidisciplinary team, the program is 3.5 hours per day, 5 days per week and includes:
- Individual, family and group psychotherapy and psycho-education
- Toxicology screening when clinically indicated
- Recovery support services, including intensive case management, care coordination and service linkage, and access to peer recovery supports
- Discharge, transition and aftercare planning and supports
- Participants gain increased self-awareness, solid relapse prevention skills, a toolbox of coping strategies, and peer supports that will help them sustain recovery.
Casa Care
Casa Esperanza, Inc. recognizes the importance of promoting a holistic and integrated model of care, including addressing clients’ comprehensive medical needs. Casa works in partnership with Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) to provide integrated primary care services to clients enrolled in Familias Unidas through our collaborative CasaCare program.
Services are provided by a licensed Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician’s Assistant who is part of the Familias Unidas Multidisciplinary Team and collaborates actively with other disciplines to provide integrated care.
Familias Unidas works to address health disparities by providing integrated, culturally competent services that meet the needs of the whole person.
