Project Spotlight: RISE*
Jacqueline, a 29-year-old African American woman, had a history of alcohol abuse, but had been sober for two years and was living in an emergency family shelter when a worker from the Department of Public Health’s FOR Families program referred her to Project RISE.
When she met with the Project RISE Outreach and Engagement Specialist, it emerged that she also had a history of abusing cocaine and other drugs and that her son had been born prematurely. She also admitted that she had been hospitalized “about seven to ten times” in the past two years because of suicide attempts…. read more
*To protect client confidentiality, names have been changed, and pictures are stock photographs.