Pubdate: Sun, 06 Aug 2006
Source: Peoria Journal Star (IL)
Copyright: 2006sPeoria Journal Star
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WOMEN-SPECIFIC TREATMENT RESOURCES

The following agencies and providers offer women-specific programs 
for addiction treatment and recovery:

- - Gateway Foundation, 55 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Il 60604, (312) 
663-1130: A treatment program with specific programs for women, with 
facilities in Texas, Illinois and Delaware.

- - The Next Step, 276 Sherman St., Albany, NY 12206, (518) 465-5249: 
Provides residential treatment for women recovering from alcoholism 
and drug abuse.

- - Prototypes, 5601 W. Slauson Ave., Suite 200, Culver City, CA 90230; 
(310) 641-7795: Serves women and their children who are homeless, 
battered, addicted to drugs or alcohol and those living with or 
at-risk for contracting HIV/AIDS at its facilities in southern California.

- - The Rebecca Project for Human Rights, 1752 Columbia Road NW, Third 
Floor, Washington, D.C. 20009; (202) 265-3907: Legal and advocacy 
organization that helps poor and low-income mothers recovering from 
substance abuse.

- - Southcentral Foundation: Alaska Women's Recovery Project, 4130 San 
Ernesto Ave., Anchorage, AK 99508; (907) 729-5090: Provides 
leadership training, mentoring and support for recovering women.

- - Women for Sobriety, P.O. Box 618, Quakertown, PA 18951-0618; (215) 
536-8026: Designed specifically to help women alcoholics achieve 
sobriety by addressing the need to overcome depression and guilt 
through the "New Life" program.

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(For a list of women's residential programs updated annually by the 
federal government, go to the Center For Substance Abuse Treatment's 
Treatment Locator Service or call (800) 662-HELP (4357).)

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(For more information, resources and interactive forums on substance 
abuse issues, visit www.silenttreatment.info. Take the reader survey.)

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(c) 2006, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman