Long Island Reach (Reach) founded in 1970 is a community based, multi-service agency providing a broad range of rehabilitative and treatment services to youth and their families, serving residents of Nassau County. The main office and satellite offices are located in Long Beach, Franklin Square and Port Washington.
Long Island is in the height of the opioid epidemic. Every two days on Long Island three people die of drug overdose. A significant amount of the Long Island population either suffer from a substance abuse disorder or have been impacted by addiction. Long Island Reach is committed to working with a high-risk population of community residents of all ages and their families to engage and help them learn better ways to cope with their rage, their depression and their pain; to enhance self-esteem and to develop their self-awareness and to help seek creative alternatives to self-destructive drug and alcohol abuse, aberrant and anti-social behavior.
Reach has five major service units:
- Outpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment and prevention services including individual, group, family counseling, and intensive treatment services.
- Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Services including individual, group, and family counseling.
- Juvenile Justice Projects including, Court Liaison Unit, Post Institutional and Reach for Peace programs.
- Alternative Education Programs including The Harriet Eisman Community School High School Diploma Program.
- Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Services Sharing and Caring and Pre/Post Natal Educational Program.
- In addition Reach provides contract management and administrative oversight for the Espoir Program serving Westbury New Cassel community providing youth development and educational activities for high risk youth.
- Summer Youth Employment Service, in joint partnership with the Nassau County Office of Youth Services.