Community Counseling and Mediation (CCM) is an innovative, community-based, social service organization providing a wide range of social support, counseling, health, mental health, education and supportive housing services to at-risk children, youth, and families in some of the poorest minority populated areas of Brooklyn. Since day one, the goal has always been to address problems in Brooklyn's most poverty-stricken youth and families by addressing prevention and early intervention. For over 30 years, CCM has been entrenched in Brooklyn's most at-risk and underserved neighborhoods including the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Brownsville, East New York and Flatbush communities.
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Services Offered
Mental Health - At CCM, we realize that an individual's potential for success cannot become reality if his or her vision of the future is blurred by mental illness or substance and alcohol abuse. In response, CCM's staff offers innovative, culturally sensitive treatment services at four licensed mental health clinics and one licensed outpatient chemical dependency treatment program. Treatment includes individual, group and family counseling, psychological assessment, psychiatric diagnosis and psychopharmacology.
Treatment Access & Prevention Services (TAPS) program - Community Counseling and Mediation's Treatment Access & Prevention Services (TAPS) program is federally funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA). Community Counseling & Mediation TAPS program is a case management outreach and prevention program. TAPS is designed to provide outreach, HIV and Hepatitis testing, referrals to treatment and case management services to males who engage in high-risk behaviors and their partners with substance abuse or co-occurring mental health disorders. Our goal is to increase access to medical and prevention services to 300 unduplicated males ages 18 and up who are HIV positive or at risk for HIV/AIDS. In addition, case management services will be provided to 80 such clients annually. The primary goal of TAPS is to serve individuals who may lack the resources and support they need to be fully functioning and healthy members of society. Our aim is to provide an array of different services to best support our clients to reach physical and psychological health, stability and well- being.
Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) - ASAP is a licensed, medically-supervised outpatient treatment program providing comprehensive and coordinated services that help our clients live a healthy drug-and-alcohol free life. The program seeks to minimize the risk of relapse, manage co-existing psychiatric symptoms, decrease risky behavior, and strengthen social and family relationships. Our expert staff serve 75 youth and adults from our Crown Heights Multi-Service Center, utilizing treatment programs that are individually designed to match each person's problems and needs. Often, this means enhancing traditional methods of treatment with innovative approaches, such as buprenorphine treatment, acupuncture, and intensive case management services for families dealing with alcohol and substance abuse.
Crisis Counseling Services (CCS) - CCM works with the NYC public school system to provide individual, group, and family counseling to the school community. Additional workshops and trainings are offered in mediation, anger management, non-violent conflict resolution training, and dealing with trauma in schools citywide. This program originated as part of the New York State Project Liberty Program that worked to alleviate psychological distress resulting from the September 11 tragedy; and now provides crisis intervention to approximately 2,000 high school students and their parents in Brooklyn's Region 6. The goal of the program is to lessen conflicts in the classroom and create better communication and understanding between students and teachers, students and parents, and parents and school personnel.
Fees and Payment
We accept various insurance and payment option such as Medicaid, State financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid, Medicare, Private health insurance, Cash or self-payment and military insurance. We also offer a sliding fee scale program which is based on income and other factor.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare Medicaid
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.
