Your care.
Our mission.
Wellness starts here.
StartCare provides integrated health and social care focused on substance use and mental health and grounded in community.
Your care.
Opioid
Treatment Programs
Providing holistic, gold-standard care for adults with opioid use disorder, with services including methadone or buprenorphine, counseling, and additional health and social services.
REACH
Intensive Outpatient Program
Providing specialty care and community for adults with polysubstance use and/or co-occurring mental health disorders through mental health and psychiatric care and additional health and social services.
Teen START
Providing robust, individualized mental health and psychiatric care to young people seeking additional supports to thrive in their family, school, and social lives
55 years providing the highest quality of evidence-based healthcare and social services and we’re just getting started.
Our Expertise
Medication for Substance Use Disorder
Vocational Counseling & Support
Harm Reduction
Mental Health Care, including
Psychiatric Services, for Youth + Adults
Community Engagement & Capacity Building
Specialty Primary Care
I have been a part of START almost 8 years.
This December, I made 3 years sober. From the moment I rise I have to be on point. This disease is very serious, and all its takes is one wrong choice and I’ll be right back where I started. For me it took a long time to get the message and I really don’t think I will be where I am today without this help. For me one of my goals is to eventually come off methadone, complete the program, continue with sobriety, and live the rest of my life as God and my loved ones wanted me to. I can say it is getting better, and I want to tell whoever may read this that a place like START do work…I can say that of all the time I have been at START this is the only time I do not miss a group… the important thing is to keep coming somewhere down the line the person may hear that one thing which would change his or her life. 
Let me be honest with you, this program saved my life.
The program made me feel at ease and helped me realize that other people’s opinions of me don’t matter. My opinion of me matters. My counselor…have been great and helped me achieve my goals. I’ve never felt judged like I did at other places. I always felt welcomed. The staff have been friendly and supportive to me. Everyone treats me with respect. I really feel like this program has helped become a better person and thank you all for that.
I’m looking forward to my future for the first time in a long time.
Sometimes I don’t feel like talking, but my therapist always provides a space for me to be myself and feel seen. I haven’t had any negative experiences at START and I’m looking forward to my future for the first time in a long time.
This program has helped me to learn something about myself.
I’ve been using for a long part of my life…this program has helped me to learn something about myself. I’m proud of the fact that I’m no longer using today. I believe in the hope that this medication instilled because it allowed me the freedom to choose.
Wellness
starts here.
(800) 211-0996
intake@startny.org
StartCare also offers telehealth options for low-barrier access to our services.