"These years on the front lines of treatment have taught us that breaking the cycle of addiction is a struggle that no one can bear alone. Only through collaboration and coordination, mutual support and love can we begin to realize the recovery of our communities."

-Rick Quiroga
Founder & Executive Director
Casa Esperanza, Inc.

Casa Esperanza’s mission is to help men, women and families overcome homelessness, recover from alcoholism and drug addiction, gain the skills they need to be self-sufficient, contributing members of society and to repair and strengthen families torn apart by substance abuse.

Over the last two decades Casa has developed a holistic, client-centered approach to treating individuals and families with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders, helping more than 2,600 people gain the skills they need to become self-sufficient, contributing members of society and reuniting hundreds of families torn apart by addiction.

Casa Esperanza is proud to announce that we recently received a three year, $1.2 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for our Pathways to Recovery project. The goal of this project is to improve the detection, diagnosis and treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders amongst Latinos.

Casa has partnered with The ART Connection to design and paint a community mural on Dudley Street in Roxbury in 2010. Our clients’ treatment experience has been greatly enriched through the mural design process with The Art Connection. Please click here for pictures of the mural and more information about the project.

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The Art Connection Donates to Casa Esperanza
By Jessica Burko, Boston Arts Examiner
December 15, 2008

Client retention in residential drug treatment for Latinos
By Maryann Amodeo, Deborah Chasslera, Catherine Oettingera,
Wilfred Labiosa, Lena M. Lundgren, Boston University School of Social Work, Center for Addictions Research and Services
February 24, 2008