9/21/09: Registration Open for Fall Workshop
On November 12, 2009 Responsibility will host Dr. Lisa Najavits for a full day clinical training workshop. Four years after Hurricane Katrina, the population of the Greater New Orleans Area suffers from PTSD and other trauma-related mental illness at rates well above national averages. Our workshop this year responds to the community need by providing clinicians and students with concrete tools for providing integrated treatment of substance use and trauma related disorders. For more information
visit our workshop page or
to register go here.
9/17/09: Recovery Day: Bigger and Better Than Ever!
This year we celebrated the best Recovery Day yet! Our third annual community gathering to celebrate recovery was held at The Four Columns. This year we enjoyed record attendance, with over 150 participants. Thank you to all those who made it possible!
5/4/09: Another Successful Workshop
On April 30, 2009, Responsibility House hosted its third successful professional development workshop on Integrated Treatment. Dr. Mee-Lee presented a follow-up training on the practical application of the Integrated Treatment model, called "Why Integrating Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment is Hard and What to do About it." Celebration Church was generous enough to donate the space for the workshop again, providing a great learning environment.
The workshop focused on the real, practical barriers to the implementation of the Integrated Treatment model and how to overcome them to provide effective services to people with multiple diagnoses.
This workshop was a part of our ongoing Integrated Treatment Training and Education Program, which we are able to provide because of a generous grant from Baptist Community Ministries.
12/17/08: Training and Education Initiative to be Expanded
Responsibility House has received word that Baptist Community Ministries will support its Integrated Treatment Training and Education Program with a generous three-year grant. This support will allow us to provide comprehensive training and education on integrated models of treating co-occurring disorders.
Responsibility House began this education initiative over the summer with a workshop on integrated treatment presented by Dr. Kenneth Minkoff, and we followed up that training with another workshop focusing on the clinical aspects of the model. At this second workshop, Dr. David Mee-Lee presented a session on the practical application of the Integrated Treatment model. We have now booked Dr. Mee-Lee to return to New Orleans to present a follow-up workshop on April 30, 2009.
With Baptist Community Ministries’ support, Responsibility House will expand its training and education initiative to include in-house supervised clinical training and academic courses on integrated treatment to be taught at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. Responsibility House will be seeking more university partners as our program matures.
Through this program, we will disseminate this emergent, most effective model of treating dually diagnosed persons to the widest and most pertinent population of Louisianans.
11/11/08: New Supportive Housing Program
Responsibility House is pleased to announce the opening of a new Supportive Housing Program in Orleans Parish. The Rebirth Project will be our first program located on the East Bank, and we are excited to get it off the ground and serving the citizens of the Greater New Orleans area. It will provide similar services to a similar population as our current supportive housing programs, but its location on the East Bank will allow Responsibility House to broaden the reach of its services and support.
We want to thank UNITY of Greater New Orleans for awarding us the generous grant through which we are able to offer this new program.
As the program comes online, we will post more updates here.
| The Mission of Responsibility House |
We serve the community by providing support and counseling to dedicated families and individuals who struggle with substance abuse, homelessness, mental illness, and/or HIV/AIDS.
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• To promote health and wellbeing in our community
• To nurture healthy and sober living
• To provide safe dry housing to the homeless
• To light the road to recovery
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Responsibility House, Inc. (RH) is a private non-profit organization [501(c)3] dedicated to meeting the needs of the Greater New Orleans area’s underserved, indigent, and disabled populations. In 1994, RH was founded as a substance abuse treatment center, and in 2000 we expanded our mission to include housing the homeless. In each of our programs, we employ qualified professionals for all counseling and case management positions. Our services have proven effective and successful because of our people-driven approach to program design and improvement.
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Responsibility House, Inc. ©
401 Whitney Ave., Suite 205
Gretna, LA 70056
Phone: (504) 366-6217
Fax: (504) 366-7642
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