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Cazenovia Recovery Systems
Offers residential and supportive recovery services
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Buffalo, NY, USA
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Requirements
- Lived substance use and recovery experience.
- Minimum High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Must be certified as a Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA).
- In addition to the above qualifications, a valid New York State driver’s license is required with a reliable automobile.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a support person with lived experience for applicants and program participants.
- Regularly connects with program applicants and program participants to ensure engagement with intake, admission, and program processes as well as continuity of care with external service providers.
- Accompanies applicants and program participants to appointments with medical, social service, family, legal, and other entities as a support and advocate.
- Engages with applicants and program participants to offer lived perspectives, experience, and wisdom of recovery paths and possibilities.
- Exhibits a firm belief in a capacity for change, and celebrate recovery achievements with program participants
- Encourages self-advocacy and economic self-sufficiency, demonstrating an ability to navigate through barriers to achieve goals.
- Helps resolve personal and environmental obstacles to maintaining recovery and stable housing or healthy lifestyle.
- Provides coaching in regard to maintaining medical linkages, scheduling and appointment follow-up, and medication maintenance.
- Promotes collaboration between providers and assists program participant in effectively communicating with providers.
- Accurately documents areas discussed during meetings with applicant or program participant, and identifies their response to peer support services within specified timeframe.
- Cultivates opportunities to participate in volunteer opportunities and other acts of service to the community.
- Provides support with program participants’ transition from a professionally directed service plan to a person-developed recovery plan and assists in structuring daily activities around this plan.
- Accompanies program participants to and links them with sources of outpatient mental health treatment, sober housing, recovery-conducive employment, medical and wellness services, social services, and self-help groups.
- Provides support to individuals who experience a recurrence of use and discusses concerns with Housing treatment team to identify potential referrals for further care.
- At times may be asked to assist other Housing staff with participant experiencing a reoccurrence of use.
- Provides support and coaching to program participants related to building soft skills and enhancing their management of daily living skills.
- Transports applicants and program participants to support services or other programs as needed, using agency supplied vehicle
- Adheres to agency confidentiality policies and procedures, maintain professional boundaries and be able to work with and have knowledge of various organizations and agencies.
- Serves on agency committees as requested.
- Carries out additional duties essential to the above-stated responsibilities as assigned.
- Is mindful of and integrates Trauma-Informed Care and its five principles in all duties and interactions with fellow staff, program participants, and external partners.
- Maintains compliance with all required rules and regulations including Federal Confidentiality (42 CFR, Part 2), HIPAA, Medicaid and/or HUD, and any others.
- Regular attendance at work location.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Cazenovia Recovery Systems delivers substance use treatment in Western New York, offering residential programs, medication-assisted treatment, trauma-informed care, and reintegration and supportive living services. Its continuum of care adapts the length of stay to each client’s progress and includes facilities like Casa Di Vita, Cazenovia Manor, and Unity House, along with affordable housing to support stability. As a nonprofit, it coordinates treatment, housing, and wraparound support in one local network, and can refer clients to other providers when needed. The organization’s goal is to save lives by guiding people from treatment through ongoing recovery and stable housing.
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Unity House offers peer support and employment counseling near MLK Jr. Park.
- ASAP-NYS membership enables advocacy and best practices networking.
- Trauma-informed care integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and contingency management.
What critics are saying
- OASAS budget cuts divert 60-80% clients to outpatient in 6-12 months.
- Horizon Health captures 30% male referrals with superior MAT in 12-18 months.
- NY AG class-action revokes OASAS license over falsified outcomes in 12-24 months.
What makes Cazenovia Recovery Systems unique
- Cazenovia Manor delivers OASAS-certified intensive rehab for men 18+ via Medicaid reimbursements.
- Comprehensive onsite detox uses buprenorphine and naltrexone for multiple substances.
- Housing First programs provide rental subsidies across Erie and Niagara Counties.
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