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Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center’s F.I.R.S.T Askia Academy is a residential treatment program for recovering substance abusers that employs the therapeutic community method. Specializing in the treatment of Black men, it has been a respected member of the community for over 30 years.
The Academy is located in a receptive community and housed in a single-family residence in the 200 year old landmark historic building known as Old Dudley Manor. Here, F.I.R.S.T. Academy has created and maintained a family-like atmosphere for its members.
F.I.R.S.T. Academy provides comprehensive and personalized rehabilitation services for adult male substance abusers with significant prior histories of addiction to alcohol and or other drugs. Candidates must be either recently detoxified or currently drug free and in need of significant social rehabilitation along with remedial education, employment assistance and other vital social services within context of a drug free community-based self-help rehabilitation program.
Who is
Eligible?
Any male 16 years of age (with parental consent) or older, who is presently drug-free, is eligible for admission to the program.
All services are fully confidential and provided on an equal opportunity basis for all clients without regard to race, class, color, creed, national origin or sexual preference.
As a community-based self-help program, The F.I.R.S.T. Askia Academy requires that you bring with you a strong desire to succeed, to do whatever it takes to “recover sound thinking,” and get off the drug abuse merry-go-round.
Contact:
The F.I.R.S.T Academy
167 Centre Street
Roxbury, MA
(617) 427-1588
The F.I.R.S.T. STEP
(Central Intake & Outpatient Services)
Moses Saunders Center
321 Blue Hill Avenue
Dorchester, MA
(617) 880-7950
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