Substance Abuse Help - Methadone-to-Abstinence Residence Program (MTAR)

Su Casa Methadone-to-Abstinence Residence (MTAR) is a 12 to 18-month residential recovery experience for people choosing to become drug-free and more productive members of their communities. This treatment program is a therapeutic community where the primary goal is to foster personal growth and healthier lifestyles through a community of residents and MTAR staff members working closely together for the benefit of each resident.

When clients arrive they are warmly greeted by our caring, highly educated and experienced MTAR staff, assigned a counselor and involved in developing their own personal treatment plan. Entering treatment at Su Casa means that residents no longer have to worry about a place to live, food, clothing, medical care, job training or safety and can focus on their new community of peers, sobriety and recovery.

An early priority of the program is to help clients become drug-free. Once admitted, all residents are slowly, safely and smoothly tapered off of methadone. With the guidance and support of their counselor, each resident begins to connect with his or her new family of peers at Su Casa. In the process Big Brothers and Big Sisters are appointed to assist, befriend and support residents.

Residents and staff stress personal responsibility for individual advancement. Peer pressure and group interaction are regularly catalysts for converting personal insight and criticism into positive change. During residents’ stay at the Su Casa MTAR, they work and earn their way through our six-phase time-tested program for recovery culminating in the highly sought-after annual MTAR graduation ceremony.

MTAR encourages residents to strongly focus on their treatment issues in group and individual settings. They address: education, social skills, job training, housing, money management, marital and family counseling, co-occurring disorders, legal issues, and vocational assessment and placement. Family reconciliation is often a positive side-effect of the MTAR treatment, which may involve clients’ families.

The MTAR program is not all work though. Residents consistently enjoy delicious and plentiful meals, family visits and events, exercise, entertainment, culture and many social connectedness and life skills learning opportunities, such as: Kung Fu classes, acting classes, Yankees and Mets baseball games, talent shows, amusement park visits, and poetry readings.

Many of our clients are referred to Su Casa by outpatient programs and court systems where they have been unable to manage their recovery. MTAR treatment succeeds for many residents because of our dedicated belief that recovery and wellness are truly possible.

For admissions, call 212-566-7590 or email us at jnicholson@lesc.org or acabrera@lesc.org.
For admissions criteria, click here.