Welcome
The Coalition for Women’s Treatment originated through St Monica’s Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Service in 1999. This project is a statewide infrastructure of
women’s treatment programs dedicated to promote awareness
of and advocate for gender-specific
treatment for women with substance use and/or mental health disorders.
Substance use disorder is a complicated disease that presents a unique threat to
women’s health and lives. Unfortunately, there is a lack of understanding about
the different ways in which women exhibit symptoms of substance misuse, the risk
factors and reasons why women become addicted, what makes it difficult for them
to stop or seek help, and how programs need to be tailored to meet the needs of
women in treatment.
Some of the Coalition activities include educating the public and professionals
about issues surrounding substance use and mental health for women, offering opportunities
for women’s treatment programs to network, collaborate and support the efforts of
improving treatment for women and collaborating with other agencies to address additional
issues in women’s lives such as interpersonel violence.
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