BENEFITS & OUTCOMES
BENEFITS & OUTCOMES
Clinical & Medical
OVERALL POSITIVE INFLUENCE:
- Placing participants with a group of wellness – minded peers “subjects” participants to positive “peer pressure”
- Redefining youth culture by exposing its self destructive aspects as unnecessary
- Challenging pre-conceived notions of a prescriptive “program” by inviting total ownership of the process once involved
- Adjunct to treatment requires having a primary treatment provider
- Participation increases retention in concurrent treatment and maximizes associated protective factors
- Personal investment increases retention in the program
In-Program culture:
- Staff members Exemplifying Self–help increase openness and attraction to a program of change
- Working together on the shared common goal fosters personal investment, connectedness (cohesion) and cooperation
- Support network of likeminded peers combats isolation
- Healthy substitute for idle unstructured time reduces the risk of returning to unwanted behaviors
- Structured “scripted”, rules and roles ease adjustment
- Availability of creative projects provides an outlet to alleviate social anxiety intrinsic to novel settings
- Forum to express issues in a relaxed, safe, confidential environment, among peers adds to the ability to work though issues
- Sharing creates an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect as well as an outlet for “venting”
- Feedback from the meetings and suggestions of peers and staff provide practical, “hands on” coping tools
- Receiving healthy, undistorted, constructive, realistic feedback, without judgment aids “ego sizing”
Building blocks of self esteem:
- Achieving incremental pre-set tasks to accomplish the ultimate goal while being able to claim the credit for the accomplishment
- Permission to make mistakes and be imperfect
- Not having to adhere to a preset expectation invites trust in the creative process
- Not having to know or produce a certain outcome increases comfort with the process
Identifying strengths, eliciting creative input helps in forming a new healthy identity - Non verbal ways to address issues thru creative means help move toward awareness and resolution
Rewiring the brain:
- Socializing without altered states helps to extinguish the dysfunctional patterns
- New positive experiences, opportunities to explore newly discovered creative ability and learning new coping tools and trade/music skills and producing tangible results

ROAD RECOVERY - 'Breaking the Cycle'
NATIONAL/STATE SUCCESS RATE:
- 30% = success rate – 1 year tracking
(NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services)
ROAD RECOVERY SUCCESS RATE:
- 80% = Success rate – 3 year tracking
- 62% Maintained total substance abstinence while participating
- 100% of subjects who relapsed addressed the incident; 50% left program for alternate levels of care & 50% reengaged the program.
- For those who relapsed, 100% returned within 48 hours.


MEDICAL VALIDATION
“Road Recovery fills the void between the clinical treatment of addiction and the real world. Road Recovery perfectly connects and complements the process of ongoing long term recovery in order for young people to live a full life.” – Dr. David Smith, Founder, Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic Medical Director
“Road Recovery is one of the few adolescent recovery programs that is able to help teenagers successfully maintain sobriety within their home communities. In my practice, I regularly utilize Road Recovery as a powerful clinical tool.” – Scott Bienenfeld, MD
“Road Recovery is an impressive program toward maintaining recovery!” – Alan L .Green, MD Chairman Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School
“The work of Road Recovery is all inspiring. By providing an outlet for creativity, in the spirit of collaboration and mentorship, participants experience joy and pride in ways that were once unimaginable.” – Dr. Marianne Chai, MD Child, Adolescent and Addiction Psychiatrist Alternative and Integrative Medicine Specialist Clinical Instructor at the NYU Child Study Center
“Hey Road Recovery, how do I know you’re a success? Our kids are always smiling when your staff is around. Very simply, if the kids are happy, I know your program is really working!” – Poul Jensen, President, CEO, Graham-Windham Services (retired)
“Road Recovery’s programs have truly had an impact on helping adolescents coming out of treatment stay engaged and most importantly stay sober. The program really becomes an extended care program for these young adults. Road Recovery’s program helps adolescents find and express themselves through the music industry mentors. Research shows that kids involved with the arts have positive dramatic long-term impacts on them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Road Recovery is about changing and saving lives and our experience so far has been terrific. Their programs are creating a model that no one else in the country has in terms of an engaging after care model that helps keep kids sober.” – David Rotenberg , Executive Director of Adolescent Treatment Services for Caron Treatment Centers.
RESULTS & FINDINGS

Road Recovery VirtualTrax Program (April 2020 – June 2020):
State Opioid Response grant (#2) from OASAS
Road Recovery (In-Person) TraxProgram (April 2019 – March 2020):
State Opioid Response grant (#1) from OASAS
Jewish Board of Family & Children Services – Program Evaluation Study

Treatment Research Institute (TRI)
TRI’s Collaboration with Road Recovery (presented: 2014)
Jewish Board of Family & Children Services – Program Evaluation Study

Warwick Valley High School


ROAD RECOVERY AWARDS
United Federation of Teachers (UFT)/Member’s Assistance Program – Let’s Talk About It Virtual Field Trip – Spring 2020

Road Recovery Awarded Grant through State Opioid Response (SOR) To Provide Trax Program Services at Youth Clubhouses with NYS-OASAS in 2019

2017-2019: The Pinkerton Foundation board met today and awarded Road Recovery a per-year grant for $108,000. Thank you for your tremendous work on behalf of young New Yorkers. – Julie Peterson, Senior Program Officer. Pinkerton Foundation, Rockefeller Center, NY, NY

2017 – FOR-NY, in Partnership with Road Recovery & HFM Prevention Council Awarded $450K for Creation of Youth and Young Adult Statewide Recovery Network

2017 National Council for Behavioral Health – President’s Award for Innovative Advocacy to Road Recovery.

2015 Freedom Institute Mona Mansell Award Honoree Road Recovery


November 6, 2013 – SCO Family of Services recognition award to Road Recovery

Sing Sing Correctional Facility – Ossining, NY


2008 Lewis Hine Award Recipient – Road Recovery, Founder Gene Bowen
Presented in Recognition of Outstanding Service on Behalf of Children and Youth By the National Child Labor Committee.
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD)

Letter of recognition from Robert J. Lindsey, NCADD President
Better Business Bureau Charity Seal Participant

City of New York NYC 2000 – Millennium Celebration

Sponsored by: Office of the Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani. Awarded City of New York Event Contract of $76,000.00 to Produce “First Night Queens, NY” – Flushing Meadows Corona Park – Unisphere Monument, Road Recovery ‘Live’ Outdoor Music Performance, December 31, 2000.
“On behalf of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, it was a pleasure working with Road Recovery on this special non-alcoholic New Year’s Eve celebration. The Road Recovery team were able to overcome many obstacles, including a snowstorm, to manage a professional, exciting and fun celebration.”
Marcia G. Lee – Executive Director, Millennium Committee NYC 2000, Office Of The Mayor
Chase Manhattan Bank

New York Office of the Attorney General

Awarded a State Of New York Office of The Attorney General Certificate of Merit, presented by Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General (June 8, 1999)
New York Community Trust – Administrators of Philanthropic Funds since 1923
Recipient of the Isabel C. McKenzie/New York Community Trust Grant of $25,000 (August 1999).
“Summer In The City ’99 Finale” August 30, 1999, Roy Wilkens Park, Queens, NY – New York Community Trust presented Road Recovery with a great opportunity and wonderful challenge to create an event targeting more than 2,000 ( 5- to- 13- year olds) enrolled in the NYCT/NYC Human Resource’s “Summer In The City” programs.
Long Island Center For Recovery
“On behalf of The Board of Directors of The Long Island Center For Recovery, I am pleased to award Road Recovery with six (6) treatment scholarships a year valued at approximately $50,000.00 to those in need of treatment from active addiction.”
Steve Basis, President / L.I.C.R (February 14, 1998)