Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange County – Hamilton Avenue

Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange County on Hamilton Avenue in Monticello, New York is one of the organization’s administrative offices. Here they provide prevention, social and human services to support the work of their chemical dependency clinics. The prevention services are designed to support the community using the promotion and implementation of early intervention strategies that help fight the disease of addiction.

The focus is on the young people in the community but they also offer prevention programming that can also be utilized by adults including parent workshops and a substance abuse resource center that provides information about substance use disorders. They work with community coalitions including Operation PJ Pride, TEAM Newburgh and SALT.

Their prevention services include presentations on alcohol, tobacco and drugs along with prevention education and social marketing. They provide specific programming to address teenagers, gender specific issues, families, aggression and a program that teaches positive thinking strategies. The combination of these programs, services and collaboration with community organizations has had positive results in the community and school systems. They believe that community members should be active participants in the fight against substance abuse.

They also offer social and human services for those experiencing a housing crisis. This includes a resource center that’s a collaborative effort of the Orange County Department of Social Services and Catholic Charities. They offer bilingual case management services to provide emergency assistance for basic necessities as well as information and referrals to community organizations. The prevention, social and human services are provided free of charge to the community.