Empowering thru Advocacy

We All Deserve to Sparkle!

Join us in celebrating National Recovery Month by helping us assist people like Elly get their sparkle back! Together We Rise!

Edgewood House – A Home for People with Psychiatric Disabilities

Edgewood House – a Home for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities – needs your help! To help us enrich the lives of those who live at Edgewood House, we’ve created an Amazon Needs list. Help us help others by supplying a need! View the Edgewood House Needs List.  

Shame Dies in Safe Places

One of our Care Managers who is a part of the LBGTQ Community shares how she uses her experiences and the challenges she overcome to help better the lives of others and create a safe place for individuals to process the shame of asking for help and applying for social services and other benefits.  

Be Your Most True and Authentic Self

At RISE it is a priority to create a welcoming environment for everyone to be comfortable to be their most true and authentic self.  

RISE Provides Safe Housing for all People

Brittney, a Progressive Steps Apartment Program resident shares how, as a transgender woman, she feels safe in a RISE Program. She also shares how finding rise when she was at the lowest point in her life, saved her life.  

5 Questions on Mental Health and Street-Homelessness with the RISE Outreach Team

  The Saratoga County Alliance to End Homelessness contributed this article that was posted in the Saratoga Today, 5 Questions on Mental Health and Street-Homelessness with the RISE Outreach Team. In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Saratoga County Alliance to End Homelessness sat down with the street outreach team members at RISE –… Read More

Advocating for Mental Health

At RISE Advocating for Mental Health is a priority. We continue to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month by sharing what Advocating for Mental Health means to our staff and residents.