New Short Stay clients are cordially welcomed by caring and understanding staff members upon arrival. Immediately following admittance, attention is quickly turned to the process of stabilizing medication and putting lives back into balance. Clients have a counselor assigned to provide guidance, support, direction and learning throughout treatment, and the staff and residents stress personal responsibility for individual advancement in the program. Peer pressure and group interaction are regularly catalysts converting personal insight and criticism into positive change.

Short Stay encourages residents to focus on critical issues in group and individual sessions where they address: social connectedness, job training, housing, managing money, marital and family challenges, co-occurring disorders and vocational assessment and life skills.

Short Stay treatment is not all work though. Residents consistently enjoy delicious and generous meals, family visits, exercise, entertainment, culture and social and entertainment opportunities, such as: Yankees and Mets games, amusement park visits, poetry readings, fitness center workouts, etc.

LESC has specialized in recovery and wellness programs for opiate dependent and mentally ill New Yorkers for decades, and our one-of-a-kind Short Stay program is a stand-out! We designed this very special residential methadone maintenance program as a fresh start for people to regain hope and lives filled with structure, self-esteem and self-sufficiency.