Every person that comes to us is unique, making it imperative for us to tailor our referrals to them and their specific circumstances.
Services for Victims of
Sexual Abuse
Comprehensive Clinical Case Management:
Understanding the particularly delicate nature of sexual abuse, our guiding principle is to treat victims and their families with care and compassion. Our knowledgeable and sensitive staff offer a wide range of assistance, maintaining the highest possible comfort level for victims and their families. Whether it is counseling, referrals to therapists,treatment programs, or guidance through the intricacies of the legal process, our driving mission is to help families stay together and teach them how to provide the practical and emotional support that victims need.
Referral Services to Proper Treatment:
Having built relationships with numerous clinicians, treatment centers, outpatient programs and more, we are able to use best practices to make the most suitable referrals, an important step in achieving a long term positive outcome. All too often people equate price with success, believing that extremely expensive programs, which are usually beyond the means of clients and their families, are the best choice. Our caring and knowledgeable staff work tirelessly to identify high-quality options that are very often approved by the client’s insurance providers, provide insurance advocacy when possible and obtain single case agreements and scholarships, securing the best care in an affordable manner.
Services for Substance Abuse and Addiction
Comprehensive Clinical Case Management:
Fighting the substance abuse epidemic requires more than care and knowledge. It requires the ability to act swiftly, in the most professional manner. Amudim’s staff members and extensive network, are able to address crisis situations with speed, skill, and compassion. Medical treatment, therapy, and inpatient rehabilitation are often the first critical steps, but resolution of underlying issues and reintroduction to normalcy are the end goals.
Referral Services to Proper Treatment:
Every person that comes to us is unique, making it imperative for us to tailor our referrals to them and their specific circumstances.
Amudim has established relationships with numerous clinicians, treatment centers, outpatient programs and more, so that we could we make the most suitable referrals, and best guide people on the important steps necessary to achieve a long term positive outcome. All too often people equate price with success, believing that extremely expensive programs, which are usually beyond the means of clients and their families, are the best choice. Our caring and knowledgeable staff work tirelessly to provide the best affordable. Individualized care. We not only identify high-quality options that are very often approved by the client’s insurance providers, but we also offer insurance advocacy when possible and obtain single case agreements or scholarships.
Family Support:
Drugs, alcohol, gambling, internet, sex and pornography addictions can wreak havoc on an individual. Without proper intervention and professional help, the situation will spiral out of control until it is beyond repair.
Fighting the substance abuse epidemic requires not just caring and knowledge but also the ability to act swiftly, in the most professional manner. Amudim’s staff members, as well as those in our extensive network, are able to address crisis situations with speed, skill, and compassion. Medical treatment, therapy, and inpatient rehabilitation are often the first critical step, but follow up, tackling underlying issues and reintroduction to normalcy are the end goals.
OPIOID OVERDOSE PREVENTION:
Naloxone (Narcan) training and distribution:
Licensed by both the New York State and New York City Departments of Health, Amudim offers Narcan training classes, teaching the public how to administer this lifesaving opioid antidote. Temporarily reversing the effects of opioid overdose, Narcan provides a window of opportunity for victims to be treated at a hospital, often bringing them back from the brink of death. Narcan has no known side effects and works only on opioids such as heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, morphine, methadone, codeine and others.
A proud partner with the NYPD’s Community Affairs Bureau, Amudim has been working hand in hand with the NYPD to provide Narcan training to the public, using our combined resources to bring this life-saving medication and awareness programming to the general public.
More than 49,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses in 2017, a number that continues to increase annually.
Awareness Programming:
As prevention is always the key to dealing with serious issues, Amudim’s community awareness events focus on breaking the stigma relating to sexual abuse and addiction. Our events feature presentations on the communal response to these issues and speeches by seasoned professionals and community leaders, who address difficult topics, such as the long term effects of abuse and addiction, with the utmost sensitivity.
PSA Videos:
Amudim PSA videos have reached hundreds of thousands of people, tackling multiple hard-hitting topics. In addition to raising awareness and opening the conversation on difficult issues currently facing our community, these productions have prompted hundreds of people to reach out to Amudim for help. Amudim’s PSA videos have been viewed more than 1 million times on its YouTube and Vimeo channels and its social media pages and have won hundreds of industry awards, with more videos planned for the future.
School-Based Education:
Amudim provides in school training to staff members, students and parents, discussing prevention, early detection and dealing with sexual abuse, as well as vaping, smoking, prescription medication abuse and the effects of substance abuse. In addition to ensuring that students feel comfortable reaching out for help, we also offer comprehensive policy and procedure assistance for schools, giving them the ability to create protocols for dealing with students having issues.
