Atwater Community Residence has great year in 2010 providing services with good outcomes, cost competitively, with high customer satisfaction

GCASA operates the Atwater Community Residence for people with substance abuse diagnoses.

There are 17 beds and it provides services to both males and females. Usually, clients stay in the CR for 3 - 6 months.

In 2010 the occupancy was 94% for the year. In January and February, 2010, the occupancy rate was 99% while in July it was 88%.

There was a possible 6205 bed days and the utilization rate was 5842.

GCASA strives to provide the service with the best outcomes, in the most cost competitive manner with the highest customer satisfaction.

The year, 2010, saw major changes in staffing with John Bennett taking over as Director with Mary Beth Pace as the Assistant Director.

GCASA's residential services had 95 admissions in 2008, 57% of which come from Genesee County

I have been asked who GCASA serves and while we serve mostly Genesee and Orleans counties some of our programs like Smoke Free now, Royal Employer Services, our Victim Impact Panel serves Wyoming as well and the Prevention Resource Center serves the 8 counties of Western New York.

In 2008 our residential services program had 58 admissions to the Atwater Community Residence and 37 admissions to GCASA's supportive living program. Altogether that is 95 admissions and of those 95 admissions 54 admissions or 57% came from Genesee County. The next largest county of origin was Erie with 12 admissions or 13% followed by 9 from Orleans,7 from Livingston, 5 from Wyoming, 4 from Niagara, 2 from Steuben, 1 from Chemung, and 1 from Cattaraugus.

GCASA's residential programs are a "regional resource" while our primary committment is to Genesee and Orleans counties.

If you have questions about GCASA's Residential programs contact the Program Director, Beverly Maniace, at 585-815-1886. To view the GCASA web site describing the Residential Programs, click here.