Center for Community Alternatives (CCA)

Youth and young adult services: cca offers an array of programs serving at-risk youth in both brooklyn and syracuse. Cca's bridge program helps youth at rikers island ages 18 to 21 make successful transitions into schooling, jobs and stable housing. Cca's youth advocacy program serves youth referred for Alternatives to incarceration. Youth in brooklyn also have access to mentoring and the youth pathways internship program which offers paid work readiness opportunities in fields such as filmmaking, fashion and culinary arts. In syracuse, cca provides services within the city of syracuse school district designed to keep youth in school as well as help out-of-school youth return to mainstream school through its transition coach program and student advocacy program. Cca also provides after school programming for high school students at risk of dropping out as well as violence prevention education and peer educator training to middle and high school-aged students in syracuse.

Reintegration services: cca offers an array of employment-related services for individuals with criminal justice involvement including cognitive behavioral interventions, transitional planning, job readiness and job development training as well as job placement and job retention. Cca also assists participants to connect with educational and vocational training opportunities including internship and apprenticeship opportunities. In addition, cca's reentry clinic provides civic restoration legal services to assist individuals with criminal records overcome employment, educational, and housing barriers associated with a criminal record.

Recovery & treatment services: cca's brooklyn crossroads is a new york state office of alcohol and substance abuse services licensed substance use outpatient treatment program which provides gender-specific services to men and women with criminal justice involvement. In syracuse, cca partners with crouse chemical dependency treatment services to provide substance use treatment for individuals being released from onondaga correctional facilities. In addition to licensed substance use treatment programs, cca operates recovery and outreach centers in both syracuse and rochester, new york. These centers support the development of strong, healthy peer communities and collaborations with partner agencies which evidence has shown are key elements in successful recovery.