Who we are

StartCare℠ is a community-focused, Black-founded and BIPOC-operated organization that has been leading the way in delivering care for New Yorkers seeking health support since 1969. We provide comprehensive, culturally responsive, and compassionate care, tools, and resources for individuals, families, and communities. With a specialized focus on addiction recovery, mental health care, and biomedical research, we operate six community-based locations across New York and provide care for 3,000 to 4,000 participants each year.

 

 

Our work is guided by four core principles:

Ensuring Equity

Fostering Innovation

Designing for Sustainability

Centering on Compassion

Our Mission, Vision, and Values

We are promoting comprehensive wellness for individuals and families by providing integrated, culturally-responsive health and social care focused on substance use and mental well-being. We center our care in equity, compassion, and innovation through biomedical and behavioral research. By caring for people, we are uplifting and strengthening communities and nurturing hope for a better tomorrow.

Our Leadership

Jonnel C. Doris, MPPA, MDIV – Chief Executive Officer

Jonnel C. Doris is the CEO of START Treatment + Recovery Centers, Inc. He previously served as Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services and as the founding Executive Director of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises.

Since he was named CEO in 2022, Mr. Doris has led our teams to secure over $9 million for START Treatment & Recovery Centers, Inc, funding new programs, research, partnerships, and expanded services to better meet community needs.

 
Our Team

Our Legacy

Dr. Beny J. Primm, a national leader in research and health care, founded our organization on the principle of providing compassionate care for anyone who needs it. Dr. Primm’s ethos still inspires and drives our work today. We have kept pace to meet shifting healthcare and social needs by expanding our core services and building new programs based on community feedback, with plans to evolve to directly support access to housing, food, healthcare, and economic opportunity. StartCare℠ continues to ensure our communities receive the services they need for improved and sustained physical and mental health, always grounding care in relationships and centering community in our work.

Our Founder

Our Approach

StartCare℠ takes a holistic equity-focused approach in addressing our communities’ wellness by meeting people where they are. We integrate care that prioritizes addressing the social determinants of health. Where people live, learn, and work, access to healthy food, economic opportunity, and other environmental factors can all affect a wide range of health and quality-of-life outcomes. We work with our participants to think through all of the ways in which they can address their individual needs to thrive.

In addition to our traditional treatment services like therapy and medication management, we also incorporate prevention and harm reduction strategies like education and overdose prevention training.

3405

people served in 2023 

$4250791

research funding awarded in the last five years

64000+

people served since inception

Wellness 
starts here.

  (800) 211-0996
  intake@startny.org
 
StartCare℠ also offers telehealth options for low-barrier access to our services.

 

For individuals experiencing a mental health crisis or emergency, call emergency services at 911.

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