Coordinated Behavioral Health Services (Aired on May 21, 2022)

        

Radio Rotary welcomes Ruthanne Becker, Senior Vice President of the Mental Health Association of Westchester, to discuss the Coordinated Behavioral Health Services (CBHS), a partnership of nine not-for-profit agencies that provide behavioral health and developmental disability services throughout seven counties in the lower Hudson Valley, helping more than 60,000 individuals annually. The mission of CBHS is to support its members’ efforts to provide effective behavioral health services to the Medicaid, Medicare, and uninsured population. The telephone number (845) 615-9312 will reach trained counselors who can direct a person with mental health issues to the agency that will provide help.

Learn More:
Coordinated Behavioral Health Services: https://www.cbhsinc.org/
Mental Health Association of Westchester: https://www.mhawestchester.org/

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June 1, 2023 · Posted in Addiction Recovery, Housing Assistance, Mental Health, Service Organizations  

Team Teen Educates about Addiction (Aired on April 30, 2023)

               

For this program, Community Educator Dora Celestino, for CAPE (the Council on Addiction Prevention & Education in Dutchess County) returns to Radio Rotary along with Prevention Coordinator MaryAlice Kovatch, for the Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Council of Orange County, join Radio Rotary to talk about a new program, Team Teen, also known as Teen Intervene. The purpose of the program is to delay the start of addiction or to reduce the use of the addicting substance. Teens at risk are identified and provided help along with their families through guided conversations with trained therapists. All forms of addiction are considered, with vaping and marijuana use currently on the rise.

Learn More:
CAPE (Council on Addiction Prevention & Education: https://capedc.org/
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Council of Orange County: http://www.adacinfo.com/
Team Teen (Teen Intervene): http://www.adacinfo.com/programs-services/teen-intervene/

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May 12, 2023 · Posted in Addiction Recovery, Education, Mental Health, Service Organizations  

Greystone’s Leap for Autism (Aired on January 30, 2022)

From Greystone Programs Tracilyn Vaticano, Assistant Executive Director, and Samara Enders, Director of Philanthropy, report to Radio Rotary about the charity’s annual Leap for Autism and other aspects of Greystone’s work with autistic individuals. Since 1979 Greystone Programs has provided essential community-based and residential services and life-enriching opportunities to
more than 600 children, adults, and families who deal with autism in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster counties of New York State. One annual fundraiser is a tandem skydive at Skydive the Ranch in Garrison, NY, an event that brings 60 to 70 donors along with Greystone staff to parachute from airplanes in support of Greystone Programs—the seventh annual Leap for Autism. In a tandem skydive and trained diver manages the parachute for both divers, who descend connected from a single chute.

Learn More:
Greystone Programs: https://www.greystoneprograms.org/
Skydive the Ranch: https://skydivetheranch.com/
NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities: https://opwdd.ny.gov/
Autism Spectrum Disorder: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/facts.html

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April 10, 2023 · Posted in Developmentally Disabled, Education, Events, Service Organizations  

Helping Individuals Learn to Read (Aired March 12, 2023)

          

    

RadioRotary interviews Laura Lane, Poughkeepsie program coordinator for Literacy Connections of the Hudson Valley. Literacy Connections uses a state-approved tutoring program with trained volunteers to help adults gain reading skills and tutor immigrants with poor or no English. The services of Literary Connections are free; donations from individuals, foundations, and government agencies support the organization. Although the program works all year, the highlight of the year comes with the annual Spelling Bee at Marist College, a competition for high-school students and adults; sponsors for the Spelling Bee contribute to the funds that have kept the program going for more than 45 years. Functional illiteracy is more than just the inability to read words–literacy is the ability to understand, evaluate, use, and engage with written texts in ways enabling a person to participate in society, achieve that person’s goals, and develop his or her knowledge and potential. It includes the skills needed to fill out forms and read instructions, not just to read or write and understand a sentence.

Learn More
Literary Connections of the Hudson Valley: http://www.literacyconnections.org/
National Spelling Bee::http://spellingbee.com/
Illiteracy in the United States: https://ortongillinghamonlinetutor.com/illiteracy-statistics-in-the-united-states/
English as a Second Language: https://educationusa.state.gov/your-5-steps-us-study/research-your-options/english-language/what-are-english-language-programs

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March 30, 2023 · Posted in Arts & Letters, Education, Events, Literacy, Service Organizations  

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