Amelie Gooding of Phoenix House Keene Center Appointed to New Hampshire Governor's Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Prevention, Intervention and Treatment.KEENE, N.H. -- Amelie Gooding, Program Director of Phoenix House Keene Center, has been appointed to the New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). Governor's Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Prevention, Intervention and Treatment. Ms. Gooding is a licensed clinician clinician /cli·ni·cian/ (kli-nish´in) an expert clinical physician and teacher. cli·ni·cian n. with more than 25 years of experience in mental health and substance abuse services. She has been Program Director of Phoenix House Keene Center since 1997, and also is a member of the New Hampshire Treatment Providers Association. "Amelie's appointment is a tremendous honor," said Patrick McEneaney, director of Phoenix House programs throughout New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . "It recognizes both her own experience and expertise as well as Phoenix House's role as a key provider of substance abuse services in New Hampshire." The Governor's Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Intervention and Treatment was created by the New Hampshire Legislature in the year 2000. Its mission is to significantly reduce alcohol and drug problems and their behavioral, health and social consequences for the citizens of NH by advising the Governor regarding policy, funding and the delivery of effective, efficient coordinated alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment service. The Commission currently has four separate task forces to assist in the performance of its duties. The four task forces are: * Prevention * Intervention and Treatment * Public Awareness/Education and Public and Private Funding Sources * Program Monitoring Phoenix House Keene Center provides adult residential programs with a continuum of care from crisis intervention/detoxification and sobriety maintenance to drug and alcohol and dual diagnosis treatment, and transitional living Transitional Living for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Transitional living is a restructuring of an old concept. The early centers for living were known as Halfway or Three-Quarter houses and usually were in existence for the provision of shelter for people who were to clients throughout the region, regardless of their ability to pay. Adolescent outpatient services outpatient services Hospital-based services Managed care Medical and other services provided, to a nonadmitted Pt, by a hospital or other qualified facility–eg, mental health clinic, rural health clinic, mobile X-ray unit, free-standing dialysis unit Examples available at Phoenix House Keene Center include the Self-Assessment Saturdays (SASY) teen intervention program and Monadnock Monadnock (mənăd`nŏk), isolated peak, 3,165 ft (965 m) high, SW N.H. It is a popular hiking destination, noted for its view. The peak lends its name to the geomorphic term monadnock, Adolescent Treatment Initiative (MATI MATI Mescalero Apache Telecom Inc (New Mexico) MATI Mass Analyzed Threshold Ionization (spectroscopic technique) ), a cooperative effort with Monadnock Family Services funded by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation was established in 1962 as a community foundation and tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity. It is one of the United States' largest community foundations and was formed to build social capital by making grants that advance charitable to provide treatment for Monadnock area teens in crisis. Phoenix House Keene Center is a unit of Phoenix Houses of New England, a provider since 1967 of comprehensive care for individuals and families suffering from alcohol and other drug use disorders. Phoenix Houses of New England offers treatment and prevention programs in all six New England states, including Phoenix House Keene Center, Phoenix House Dublin Center, and the Phoenix Academy at Dublin for adolescents needing residential treatment. Information about services available through Phoenix House Keene Center and Phoenix Houses of New England is available on the web at www.phoenixhouse.org. |
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