MISSION STATEMENT: to empower the Hispanic /Latino community to eliminate the negative impact of HIV/AIDS, violence and the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs through culturally sensitive prevention, education, intervention, and treatment services.

VISION: will be recognized statewide, as a trusted provider of high quality holistic services, and will collaborate with other agencies for the full participation of Hispanics and Latinos in the political, social, and spiritual arenas.

CORE VALUES: consists of caring, excellence, spirituality, integrate confidentiality, honesty, reliability, commitment and collaboration. All of our values relate to our mission, clients, each other, funders and ourselves.

HUMADAOP has served the Hispanic/Latino community and responded to its needs in ways that few other organizations have done. As the negative impact of HIV/AIDS, violence and the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs continue to be felt HUMADAOPs programs and services fill a unique niche, not only in the Hispanic/Latino community, but also in the Greater Cleveland Area. HUMADAOPs mission, vision, core values along with its goals and strategies will guide HUMADAOP in building a strong and stable organization capable of providing continued caring and excellent service to its constituencies.

Hispanic UMADAOP and its program’s are funded by:

Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services Board of Cuyahoga County (ADASBCC)
Ohio Department of Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS)
The Deaconess Foundation
City of Cleveland
Ohio Department of Health (ODH)
The Cleveland Foundation
Title 1 Ryan White
Cuyahoga County Board of Health
The George Gund Foundation
The Woodruff Foundation
Sisters of Charity Foundation
Hispanic Alcohol and Drug Program
This program provides prevention and education services aimed to work with schools, churches, correctional institutions and probation departments in areas where Hispanics are living and/or have been served.

Project Latino - Works with the Cleveland Bilingual Public Schools Program to provide primary prevention and education to Hispanic/American children, their families, and their teachers.

Project ENTRA (Entering a New Therapeutic Rehabilitative Approach) - Anonymous HIV/ AIDS tests with pre & post-test counseling provided on site. In addition, tests have been conducted at homes and at treatment facilities.

Outpatient Services - Provides outpatient treatment services to individuals and/or families in need of those services, who may or may not be currently receiving them. It is intended to compliment, not to replace the 12 Steps Program.

Intake Program - Is a program that consists of working with clients in the area of client treatment services, initial evaluation, crisis intervention, family intervention, referral and general accessing of HUMADAOP and community services.

Pedro Zamora Resource and Training Center - This program works in collaboration with the intervention and education services already being provided in the Hispanic community. The center targets numerous HIV/AIDS service providers in the greater Cleveland area. Trainings are provided to address issues such as behavior modification risk reduction, cultural competency and issues specific to effective HIV/AIDS education.

Casa ALMA (Alternative to Liberate our Minds from Addiction) Male Treatment Center & Casa MARIA (Making Abstinence, Recovery & Integrity our Aim) Female Treatment Center

Both programs provide individualized recovery treatment services in a freestanding, residential setting, with the overall purpose of complete abstinence. This has been most successfully maintained with the development of a spiritual way of life based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous/ Narcotics Anonymous/Al-Anon. Both residential treatment programs are 40 days long and both have a sliding scale fee.

Title 1 Case Management and Counseling - This program provides short-term advocacy and service linkage for people who live in the spectrum of HIV/AIDS such as counseling and case management.

DUI (Driving Under the Influence) - Hispanic UMADAOP in collaboration with the Community Assessment Foundation located at St. Michael’s Hospital (ex- Saint Alexis) provides Spanish-speaking weekend intervention program that is on going for 72 hours.

Hispanic MSM - Increases the incidence of safe sex behavior among Hispanic men who have sex with men.

Decreasing Teenage Programming Among Inner City Youth - The goal of this project will be to decrease the occurrence of teen pregnancy among the Hispanic youth ages 12 –14.

HIV/AIDS Hispanic Youth Program - Is aimed to provide HIV/AIDS education and intervention services primarily in the Hispanic community, which includes children, adolescents, and the community in general.

Project Vecinos - This program provides HIV prevention to individuals who engage or may engage in risk behaviors. The Vecinos program works with culturally isolated populations.

Project Mejora - Is a mentor/student program targeting adolescents at risk of dropping out of school while at the same time encouraging them to fulfill or exceed academic requirements, to avoid alcohol and drug use.

All services of Hispanic UMADAOP are bilingual and culturally sensitive. Treatment services are available 24-hours a day. All services are provided free of charge with the exception of residential treatment, outpatient treatment and the DUI program.

Hispanic UMADAOP of Cleveland, Inc.

3305 West 25th
Cleveland, Ohio 44109

Phone: (216) 459-1222
Fax: (216) 459-2696