Become a substance abuse counselor in as little as 4 months!!
Addiction Treatment for Everyone! The Resource Training Center's mission is twofold. We provide "Treatment on Demand" for individuals suffering from Alcoholism & Substance Abuse, and provide the required educational hours for those seeking to become a Credentialed Alcohol & Substance Abuse Counselor in New York State.

The Resource Counseling  Center, our New York State Office of Alcohol & Substance Abuse Services (NYS OASAS) licensed outpatient chemical dependency  program provides treatment for those individuals suffering from dependency  on alcohol and drugs, a need that has grown exponentially  with the continued growth of the prescription drug abuse epidemic. Many of our patients also suffer from co-occurring  disorders, such as mental health or medical issues. We provide medical and psychiatric care for our patients at out main
location in Sunset Park Brooklyn, as well as group & individual counseling services at both our Sunset Park & our new expansion site, located in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. Our Counseling Centers motto is "treatment on demand" as we do not require individuals  seeking help to wait a long period for an appointment, which could lead to a missed opportunity to help them.

The Resource Training  Center's educational program, (TRTC) is a job training and placement non-profit organization  that prepares  low-income individuals,  mostly  former  substance abusers, many  of whom have also been homeless and incarcerated   to enter  the workforce as credentialed drug counselors (CASAC) and other substance abuse professionals.·   Using innovative adult learning  approaches, TRTC successfully trains 300 individuals  a year; has a 90% completion rate; and  an unprecedented 98% pass rate on the state  credentialing exam.

According  to the New York State Office of Alcoholism  and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), 1.8 million New Yorkers have a substance  abuse problem;of these, less than 15 percent  get treated annually. Throughout  the state, 110,000 people  are in chemical addiction  treatment programs  at any given time, placing an enormous  burden  on the relatively  small number  of treatment programs  available. According to OASAS,2.5 million New Yorkers, or 11percent of the population, have a substance  abuse problem;
of these only 260,000, or barely  10 percent, get treated  annually. In a 2006 national  survey conducted  by Therapeutic  Communities of America, 81 percent of the association's member organizations reported they had a workforce shortage.

New York State estimates  that  there  is a current  need for at least 6,000 CASAC-credentialed counselors. To be an addiction  counselor,  an individual must be certified by CASAS after  taking  a 350-hour  training course and working  a minimum number  of hours as a counselor  in the field.   Once students  have completed the training, they  can receive a counselor-in-training credential (CASAC-T) and then  have five years to complete  their  work  requirement and take the CASAC exams.