Beverly-Jean Pollard, B.A., LSW, OCPS II
Executive Director

The primary purposes of the Warren Urban Minority Alcohol and Drug Abuse Outreach Program are to:

• Increase community understanding of substance abuse by conducting education and awareness programs.
• Reduce the barriers which prevent early identification and treatment
• Provide prevention programming for youth

Increase the awareness and sensitivity of human service providers, through Training, Consultations, Advocacy, and Systems Development regarding: Cultural and Gender Specificity, Understanding and Implementing Cultural Diversity, program development for African American youth, and community organization.

Services & Programs Provided

Aiming High For Excellence… Aiming High for the Future

Utilizes traditional and non-traditional methods to aid youth in the development of social and interpersonal skills: Enhances positive behaviors, Enriches self-pride, Encourages excellence in education and achievement.

Aiming High Jr./Sr . – Senior & Junior High School Age Students

Aiming High Cultural Dance Group – All Ages

Aiming High Drama Troupe – All Ages

Kids Express — Kid's On The Right Track– Elementary Age Students

Early Intervention

Focused Groups which assist students' personal growth through a learning and sharing environment.

Teamed for Success, Youth-to-Youth Mentoring

Career Push Project

School Based: Elementary, Junior & Senior High

Community Based: Social, Civic and Religious

Organizations

Training / Consultation

Methodologies designed to increase the awareness and affectability of human service providers through training, consultations, advocacy and systems development regarding; cultural and gender specificity, understanding and implementing cultural diversity, program and development for the African American Community.

Additional Programs

Project G.R.O.W.T.H. (Generations Reaching Out Working Towards Healing ) ; This project provides community based, prevention/intervention programming to promote family stability.

Circle For Recovery (CFRO) - The Circle for Recovery is a community based re-entry program for paroled offenders through Urban Minority Alcohol and Drug Abuse Outreach Programs of Ohio. It is an intensive (17) week relapse prevention and community reintegration program. CFRO provides a range of coordinated services to African-American male offenders on parole from state correctional institutions. The philosophical premise is to ease the adjustment from incarceration to re-entry into the community for the offender and his family.

UMADAOP of Warren, Inc.
4087 Youngstown Road, SE
Warren, Ohio 44484

Phone: (330) 393-3044
Fax: (330) 393-3048