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Established in 1982 as The Weekend Center, the Lexington Center for Recovery, is a nonprofit organization that serves Westchester and Dutchess counties in the state of New York. It provides mental health and clinical care services to people who suffer from chemical dependency and substance abuse. The Lexington Center for Recovery also offers spiritual, anger management and relapse prevention services and conducts one-on-one counseling sessions for individuals, families and senior citizens. It provides medication monitoring, psychiatric evaluation, and vocational and educational assessment services. The organization also offers a women's intensive program that focuses on addiction recovery, parenting classes and on-site child care services for women participants with children. The Lexington Center for Recovery operates more than 15 health care units and one of its facilities is located in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

A nonprofit organization, Wartburg Lutheran Services has been operational for more than 100 years. One of the leading human service agencies in the United States, Wartburg has branch locations in Brooklyn, Poughkeepsie and Delmar, N.Y. The center serves more than 4,500 senior citizens annually and employs over 100 nurses, therapists, case coordinators, supervisors and doctors. It offers a wide variety of services and facilities, such as adult day care, private residences for seniors, residential treatment, clinical assessments, psychiatric services, individual and group counseling, psychotherapy programs, and medical evaluations and diagnostic solutions. The center also offers case management, crisis intervention, stabilization solutions, service coordination, supported group living, psychosocial rehabilitation programs, 24-hour emergency prescreening and vocational services, and other miscellaneous services.