W.O.E. Risk Reduction service offers our clients easy access on demand treatment and support services for people involved with the criminal justice system and who are at risk or coping with substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, or other Infectious diseases. Each client benefits from this program and is provided with a case manager and counselor.

SERVICES OFFERED

• Education of HIV/AIDS - risk reduction and living with AIDS
• HIV/TB Testing
• Links to appropriate services based on HIV status
• HIV Positive - referrals (to discharge planner) and links to services
• Support Group
• In-House one-on-one counseling
• Substance Abuse - Education and Counseling
• Crisis Intervention
• Housing - upon completion of programs

OUR LINKAGE UNIT

The most important point of intakes and referral for W.O.E. Linkage Unit provides connecting women that have been incarcerated with the services they need. Linkage Unit provides information on programs at W.O.E. and other services in the community, including the immediate needs of food, housing, and clothing. W.O.E. is affiliated with various organizations to meet your needs.

DRUG REHABILITATION

Drug rehabilitation depends upon the severity and nature of the drug addiction, motivation, and the availability of services. Drug addiction is a learned behavior for an individual. Drug rehabilitation is undoing the learned process of addiction so that being clean becomes habitual. Drug rehabilitation usually requires long-term treatment, but varies on the individual and their drug addiction history.

W.O.E. realizes that in order to understand and develop effective services that avoid re-creating the same kinds of growth hindering and violating relationships a therapeutic environment is necessary. Therefore, we offer therapeutic communities in residential settings. Residential treating is different than other treatment methods in many ways. Individuals are able to leave their destructive environment and enter into a clean and sober atmosphere. Additionally individuals who choose W.O.E. are able to associate with others who share their same goal of addiction recovery 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The availability of individuals and staff at any hour is invaluable when a person is going through residential drug treatment.

Along with our counseling and referral services at W.O.E., we offer mutuality, empathy, and empowering relationships that will produce five psychological outcomes in our drug prevention programs:

      1.) increased zest and viability
      2.) empowerment to act
      3.) knowledge of self and others
      4.) self worth
      5.) desire for more connection

RISK REDUCTION

W.O.E. recognizes the apparent need for counseling and treatment of AIDS and HIV, not only in the state of Georgia, but across the United States. Our role will be fostering linkages with care and treatment programs while further developing and strengthening effective HIV prevention efforts. Our intent is to help control the HIV epidemic by educating women and their families while working with community and state agencies. W.O.E. realizes the number of people living with AIDS is increasing, because effective new drug therapies are keeping HIV-infected people health longer and dramatically reducing the death rate. We offer partner counseling and referral services.

Persons living with AIDS at the end of 2001
(by sex, state of residence in U.S.)