The Community Action Organization Of Western New York Inc

Community Services Block Grant - The CAO is a community based, citizen driven organization that provides essential health & human services, educational and training programs to low-income residents across Erie County, NY with extensive experience in site management, crisis and emergency services, youth and family development, food pantry distributions, employment & training, reporting to funding sources and creating and maintaining vital partnerships within the community. On average we serve over 37,000 individuals and over 40,000 families at over 7 sites annually.

The CAO Drug Abuse, Research and Treatment Program (DART) currently serves 565 consumers in our outpatient opiate treatment program. The clients attend our clinic daily at which time they receive medication, methadone that assists in the development and maintenance of their recovery from opiate dependence. Clients are also required to attend weekly individual sessions with their assigned counselor as well as group therapy, whose goals are to identify the antecedents to addiction and develop and monitor the effectiveness of their recovery plans. During this period the DART program conducted 148,497 dispensing and approximately 32,669 clinical episodes of care.