Program areas at Hispanic Urban Minority Alcholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program
They also provide Outreach, education, prevention and early intervention to support activities, training, consultation and treatment services for the Hispanic community, and to provide those things necessary for the operation, support or benefit of the Hispanic community.
Though covid-19 pandemic interrupted services, Hispanic umadaop provided two prevention programs. Hispanic alcohol and Drug Program is a 10-week or yearlong school-basedalcohol/drugs prevention education curriculum for Hispanic and other elementary, middle and high school scholars in the cleveland metropolitan school district. The scholars received prevention education services and were able to perceive substance use as risky and/or harmful. La mariposa girls empowerment is a gender-specific 12 session afterschool relationship connection, social-emotional, and character skills development curriculum for Hispanic and other girls, ages 9-18 years. The participants successfully completed the Program. Parents reported improvement in developing healthy interpersonal andsocial/emotional skills with peers, siblings/parents, and school engagement. During covid-19, prevention staff kept families updated with pertinent and understandable covid-19 information and community resources via facebook, humadaop website, and zoom webinar sessions. In collaboration with cleveland metro school district and cleveland umadaop, prevention staff delivered daily school lunches and/or food commodities to food-insecure individuals.
Miguel prieto treatment services provides Hispanic and other adults with residential and/or outpatient individualized recovery treatment services (assessment, case management, individual/group counseling, intensive outpatient, laboratory urinalysis, and room/board). Males are enrolled into casa alma (alternative to liberate our minds from addiction), while females are enrolled into casa maria (making abstinence, recovery and integrity our aim). Treatment is a minimum of 30 days. The residential treatment center remained opened throughout the year, except for one month due to covid-19 pandemic. However, Hispanic umadaop temporarily suspended residential admissions from correctional facilities and only accepted direct admissions from a medically monitored intensive inpatient or medically managed intensive inpatient facility. With additional funding from Ohio mhas, humadaop enhanced services by acquiring interactive journaling curriculum, aa/na materials, andlaptops/projector; upgrading website/social media/internet for virtual outpatient and art therapy programming; and replacing beds, head stands, side chest, and kitchen storage containers/utensils, plates.