Blog: Hope in Action

Through the Community PROMISE intervention strategy, we are reaching out to Latinx peers and role models to share inspiring stories and educate the community on STD/HIV prevention, risky sexual behaviors, substance use, and the importance of social supports.

Check out Abuelo’s story about addiction, crime, and how his decision to make a change saved his relationship with his family and life.

Casa’s approach is a wraparound, time-unlimited approach that emphasizes working flexibly to build the internal and external resources clients need to live a self-directed life and work toward their full potential. Casa’s treatment model places the client at the center of care beginning with the development of a Person-Centered Care Plan that identifies ...

Background: Hispanic/Latinx persons with alcohol and other drug disorders (AOD) have limited access to culturally competent continuity of care. To address this, the evidence-based smartphone recovery application Addiction-Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (A-CHESS) was translated and adapted for Latinx Spanish-speakers with AOD, developing CASA-CHESS. 

Objectives: This study examined the AOD and mental health outcomes for Latinx Spanish-speaking clients using the CASA-CHESS smartphone tool over a 6-month period, post-residential treatment. This single group, pre-post study design included seventy-nine male and female Spanish-speaking Latinx clients, ...

Los latinos se ven especialmente afectados por la crisis de los opiáceos en Mass. WBUR nos preguntó por qué:

El hombre alto y desgarbado gira un cono de papel en sus manos mientras brotan historias de casi 30 años de adicción: el robo que lo llevó a prisión a los 17; nunca obtener su GED; pasando por los horrores de la desintoxicación, tal vez 40 veces, incluida esta última, que terminó hace dos semanas. el esta ahora ...

Latinos Are Hit Especially Hard By The Opioid Crisis In Mass. WBUR asked us why:

The tall, gangly man twists a cone of paper in his hands as stories from nearly 30 years of addiction pour out: the robbery that landed him in prison at 17; never getting his GED; going through the horrors of detox, maybe 40 times, including this latest, which he finished two weeks ago. He’s now in a residential unit for at least 30 days.

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Objective: Addressing alcohol and other drug disorders and other mental disorders among adult Hispanics/Latinos is of critical concern, as they are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups with a disproportionate rate of disease, mental disorders, and poverty. Although improvement in outcomes is associated with sustained participation in ongoing treatment for co-occurring alcohol and other drug disorders/mental disorders, continuing care is rare for these chronic conditions, especially for Latinos with more limited access to culturally and linguistically competent services. 

Methods: The evidence-based ...