Empowering thru Advocacy

Mental Health and Criminal Justice Collaboration Training

Dr. Prezioso, Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services in Saratoga County, in collaboration with RISE Housing and Support Services, presented a community-based Mental Health and Criminal Justice Collaboration training with instructors Dr. Steven Lamberti and Dr. Robert Weisman, experts in forensic psychiatry.   The training focused primarily on criminology of individuals with mental health… Read More

The Most Important Medicine

Milestone Manor Program Director, Dawn Daum, shares how PTSD from childhood trauma affects parenting. We appreciate Dr. Amy’s invitation for her to share her unique parenting experiences as a survivor of abuse with the medical community. You can listen HERE or anywhere you prefer to listen to your podcasts.

Happy Veteran’s Day

RISE would like to thank all Veterans for their service and wish you a Happy Veteran’s Day! As a mental health provider, we want to remind you of the benefits available to you at the US Department of Veterans Affairs  

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.