Community Solutions

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Family Central NY: A Parenting Support Network, 300+ members

This closed group is a place for families to connect, offer support, and make some new friends in Warwick, NY. Our vision is to bring our community together to develop a web of support for families to safeguard childhood and bring balance to family life. We offer parenting workshops at the library, local hikes & events, and plan to organize more family friendly events in 2017.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FamilyCentralNY/

Warwick, NY Parents Group, 4,000+ members

This members-only closed group is intended to be a positive-parenting group, providing users with a central resource for information and support within the Warwick, NY community.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1352080741473147/

Young Aspie’s of Orange County Facebook Group, 35+ members

Get connected with parents & their kids, teens with Asperger’s Syndrome or High Functioning Autism in Orange County NY. Plan meet ups & hopefully develop relationships with other local people who share similar interests. Let our kids know they are not alone & learn from each other.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/orangecountyaspie/

Early Childhood Centers

Fields of Green Montessori School, Vernon, NJ

First Class Minds, Florida, NY

Kids Clubhouse, Warwick, NY (in Hamlet of Pine Island)

Long Meadow School, Warwick, NY

Rhythm & Rhyme Childcare Center, Warwick, NY

Warwick Day Care Center, Warwick, NY

Woodland Hollow, Warwick NY

Warwick Valley Central School District

Parent Teacher Association

https://warwickvalleyschools.com/parent-teacher-association-pta/

Private Schools

Tuxedo Park School, Tuxedo Park, NY

Green Meadow Waldorf School Chestnut Ridge, NY

Independent Living, Inc.

Support for families, educators and professionals working with children with developmental delays and disabilities from birth through age five.

https://www.myindependentliving.org/

PULSES (Parents United Learning the Special Education System)

Connects special education families to existing resources and support systems in the Mid-Hudson Valley, NY

https://www.pulsesny.org/

Cornell Cooperative Extension

Offers educational opportunities and resources designed to help empower individuals and families to improve the quality of their lives, become competent consumers and build better communities. 

https://cceorangecounty.org/family

The Warwick Valley Dispatch: Local newspaper

https://www.wvdispatch.com/

The Warwick Advertiser: Local newspaper

https://www.warwickadvertiser.com/

Hudson Valley Parent: Online and magazine resource for Hudson Valley parents. Their goal is to empower families to raise healthy, happy children.

https://hvparent.com/

DIRT Magazine:  Local Publication. Healthy Living from the Ground Up.

https://www.dirt-mag.com/

Office of Addiction Services and Supports

The New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) oversees one of the nation’s largest Substance Use Disorder systems of care with approximately 1,700 prevention, treatment and recovery programs serving over 730,000 individuals per year.

https://oasas.ny.gov/

SAMHSA’s National Helpline

SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline

Addiction Recovery Guide

Addiction Recovery Guide assists individuals struggling with drug addiction and alcoholism find help that best suits their needs. From evaluation to residential treatment, we have selected a range of outstanding programs and resources.

https://www.addictionrecoveryguide.org/

Find Treatment 

FindTreatment.gov is a confidential and anonymous resource for persons seeking treatment for mental and substance use disorders in the United States and its territories.

https://findtreatment.gov/

The Trade

An unflinching look inside America’s heroin crisis. This five-part series by filmmaker, Matthew Heineman spotlights the heroin crisis through the eyes of those most affected: the growers, addicts, cartel bosses and law enforcement hopelessly caught in its web. 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ8c54cxQG2GHPFSn0HS-B8SBEzCYF1QD

Heroin(e)

Documentary filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon chose Huntington as the setting for her short documentary about America's opioid crisis, Heroin(e). It's now nominated for an Oscar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khSO7qEKbvo

Warning: This Drug May Kill You

Through the personal and emotional stories of people on the front lines of the opioid epidemic in the U.S., Warning: This Drug May Kill You takes an unflinching look at the devastating effects of addiction through the stories of four families whose lives have been decimated by addictions that all began with legitimate prescriptions to dangerous painkillers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDmRc3QOhOY&ab_channel=Max

Understanding the Opioid Epidemic

This PBS program traces the causes behind the unprecedented growth in the use of prescription opioids and the devastating impact these drugs are having in virtually every part of America. Albert Wisner Library Collection.

https://www.pbs.org/show/understanding-opioid-epidemic/

Pleasure Unwoven

Kevin McCauley explores the most important question about addiction: is it a choice? Or a disease? Dr. McCauley turns complex neuroscientific concepts into easy-to-understand visual images that will help people in recovery feel better understand, and their families and friends feel hope that recovery is possible.

https://addictioneducationsociety.org/dr-kevin-mccauley-pleasure-unwoven/

The Foster Care System Is Flooded With Children Of The Opioid Epidemic

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/23/573021632/the-foster-care-system-is-flooded-with-children-of-the-opioid-epidemic

Short Answers to Hard Questions About the Opioid Crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/03/upshot/opioid-drug-overdose-epidemic.html?_r=0

Warning: This Drug May Kill You Offers a Close-Up of the Opioid Epidemic

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/05/warning-this-drug-may-kill-you-opioid-epidemic-hbo/524982/

A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Opioid Crisis

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/888606#vp_1?form=fpf

The Opioid Epidemic Is A National Public Health Emergency

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-opioid-epidemic-a-national-public-health-emergency_b_598b0179e4b0f25bdfb320c9

Details On Death Certificates Offer Layers Of Clues To Opioid Epidemic

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/01/479440834/in-opioid-crisis-it-s-important-to-know-which-drugs-caused-a-death

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

In this National Book Critics Circle Award-winning book, the investigative journalist Sam Quinones looks at two phenomena — the over prescription of pain medication in the 1990s and the influx of black-tar heroin from Mexico to the United States — to explain how opiate addiction has come to plague hundreds of towns across the country.

Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy by David Shef

This book examines the available research on prevention and treatment to argue that “addiction isn’t a criminal problem, but a health problem.”

Tweak by Nic Sheff

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise.

Thin Wire: A Mother’s Journey Through Her Daughter’s Heroin Addiction by Christine Lewry

This story is written in the voices of a mother and daughter about the daughter’s struggle with heroin addiction and the journey they took toward her recovery. It gives a good insight into the mind of an addict and the pain that is suffered by all involved.

Marlena by Julie Buntin

An electric novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades. The story “Marlena” is told retrospectively by a woman named Cat, as a 30-something adult; she recounts her yearlong friendship with the title character as a teenager in Northern Michigan.