New Hope's Clients

There is no "typical" New Hope Manor client. Some women who come to us have dropped out of high school; others have Master degrees. Many of our clients are at the poverty level, others come from middle or upper class families. We have served clients as young as 12, and others have been in their fifties. Some have wonderfully supportive families, others have no families. Addiction is truly an equal opportunity disease.
Among our graduates, New Hope counts medical doctors, lawyers, judges, para-legals, psychologists, social workers, successful business women, and, perhaps the hardest job of all, successful mothers and wives.
Below are just a few of the stories of the well over 1000 young women who have come to New Hope Manor. To schedule an intake, or for any other information, call (845) 557-8353; or fax (845) 557-6603 or click at Email us
Some Success Stories
Laura was into big time crime-part of a syndicate that dealt in adolescent prostitution. Eventually she was trapped into drugs, arrested and imprisoned. She was about to be sentenced to at least seven years when a representative of New Hope offered the judge an alternative that would save taxpayers the expense of her incarceration. Today, Laura is the liaison between the criminal courts and all drug programs in a neighboring state. She had majored in criminal justice at Marist College while she was in the re-entry phase of the program. Seven years of prison could never have done for Laura what New Hope did.
Mary was a legally blind, 17 year old heroin addict who regularly slept in a cardboard box hidden in the bushes of Central Park. A New York City police officer picked her up and drove her to New Hope Manor. Friends of New Hope got her a seeing-eye dog. She finished the program and today she runs her own agency that trains seeing-eye dogs for the blind.
Becky and Linda were teenage sisters who ran away from their home in Canada. They quickly got into drugs and wound up at New Hope Manor. They both finished the program and are now happily married with children. One is a registered nurse and the other is an executive secretary.
Vickie was a drug addict in County Jail. The court decided to put her on probation and send her to New Hope. After she finished the program, she moved out west. She is now Director of Social Service, Director of the Hospital Trauma Team, and Patient Advocate for the hospital she works at. She lobbied the Governor's office to get state funding for a 25 mile bicycle path people call Vickie's Bikeway".
Tasha was a single mother who lost custody of her son while involved in drugs and abusive relationship. Her first stay at New Hope was brief. She felt "cured" and didn't think she needed to complete the program. Some months later she returned, pregnant and hopeless. She gave birth to a beautiful healthy daughter, graduated and regained custody of her son. Tasha works, cares for her children, and is saving money in order to enter college to become a nurse.
Veronica is now a counselor in a Dutchess County, New York middle school. She gets continued recognition for her drug counseling of troubled kids. No one knows about her background--she once tested the patience of the New Hope staff. But the potential New Hope always saw in Veronica was realized, and she graduated Marist on the Dean's List. She has her MA in counseling, and is repaying society--with interest--for the harm she caused during her drug addiction.