Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Office of
skip breadcrumbsAgency Web Site: https://www.oasas.ny.gov/
Mission
The mission of the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) is to improve the lives of all New Yorkers by leading a comprehensive premier system of addiction services for prevention, treatment, and recovery.
Organization and Staffing
The Executive Budget recommends a total workforce of 737 FTEs, unchanged from FY 2019. OASAS is responsible for planning, developing and regulating the State's system of substance use disorder (SUD) and gambling treatment and prevention programs. As part of this mission, OASAS certifies, funds and supervises over 1,600 local government and community-based programs and operates 12 State Addiction Treatment Centers (ATCs).
Budget Highlights
The FY 2020 Executive Budget recommends $802 million in All Funds appropriations, including $574 million for Aid to Localities, $138 million for State Operations and $90 million for Capital Projects. This represents a decrease of $6 million from FY 2019, mainly due to the expiration of legislative one-time appropriations.
The Executive Budget provides over $200 million for OASAS to address the heroin and opioid crisis to continue to enhance prevention, treatment, and recovery programs targeted toward chemical dependency, residential service opportunities, and public awareness and education activities. The Budget supports the following:
- Residential Treatment Beds. In FY 2019, the State will complete its efforts to add nearly 200 new residential beds. These new beds are integral for ensuring widespread service availability for those in need of residential care. An additional 260 beds are in capital development and are expected to open over three fiscal years;
- Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) Slots. The Budget fully funds over 1,200 new OTP slots added in FY 2019. These programs will provide individuals with the medications they need, including buprenorphine, to help with the State’s whole-patient approach to services and care;
- Prison and Jail Based Substance Use Disorder Services. The Budget continues $3.75M in funding to support medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in local jails and leverages federal funds to expand MAT to three additional DOCCS facilities. These effective programs will support inmates in recovery and link them to community-based services prior to their release, increasing their chances of success and reducing recidivism; and
- Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Ombudsman. The Budget makes permanent $1.5M in funding to support the newly created ombudsman, a joint program between OASAS and OMH, which helps individuals and their families navigate the behavioral health care system to ensure people have access to necessary care and services. The ombudsman program also helps resolve issues when care has been delayed or denied.
For more information on this agency's budget recommendations located in the Executive Budget Briefing Book, click on the following link:
Briefing Book – Mental Hygiene (PDF)
Program Highlights
New York State has one of the nation's largest addiction services systems. OASAS offers a wide range of services, which fall into the following three main categories:
- Prevention: Prevention services seek to prevent substance use and abuse and compulsive gambling in individuals, families and communities. Prevention services include education, environmental strategies, community capacity building, positive alternatives, and information dissemination. These services are delivered by approximately 160 providers in a variety of settings, including schools and community-based organizations, reaching approximately 454,000 youth annually;
- Treatment: Treatment programs consist of various clinically appropriate services, including crisis, residential, outpatient and OTPs, for individuals with problem gambling or SUDs. Treatment includes individual and group counseling, MAT, educational services, case management, vocational assessment, and training for job skills, employment readiness, parenting, personal, and social and community living skills; and
- Recovery: Recovery programs assist individuals in recovery with emotional, informational, and social support services to help initiate and sustain recovery from SUDs, as well as provide support to family members. Services are provided through Recovery Community Centers, Youth Clubhouses, and Permanent Supported Housing.
| Category | Available FY 2019 |
Appropriations Recommended FY 2020 |
Change From FY 2019 |
Reappropriations Recommended FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Operations | 135,359,000 | 138,287,000 | 2,928,000 | 3,685,000 |
| Aid To Localities | 573,405,000 | 574,051,000 | 646,000 | 126,670,000 |
| Capital Projects | 100,000,000 | 90,000,000 | (10,000,000) | 531,553,000 |
| Total | 808,764,000 | 802,338,000 | (6,426,000) | 661,908,000 |
| Program | FY 2019 Estimated FTEs 03/31/19 |
FY 2020 Estimated FTEs 03/31/20 |
FTE Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Facilities (CCP) | |||
| Capital Projects Funds - Other | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| Executive Direction | |||
| General Fund | 282 | 282 | 0 |
| Institutional Services | |||
| General Fund | 440 | 440 | 0 |
| Total | 737 | 737 | 0 |
| Fund Type | Available FY 2019 |
Recommended FY 2020 |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Fund | 121,719,000 | 124,647,000 | 2,928,000 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Federal | 7,010,000 | 7,010,000 | 0 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 6,630,000 | 6,630,000 | 0 |
| Total | 135,359,000 | 138,287,000 | 2,928,000 |
| Adjustments: | |||
| Transfer(s) To | |||
| Civil Service, Department of | |||
| General Fund | 113,000 | ||
| Appropriated FY 2019 | 135,472,000 | ||
| Program | Available FY 2019 |
Recommended FY 2020 |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive Direction | |||
| General Fund | 49,432,000 | 50,765,000 | 1,333,000 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Federal | 5,800,000 | 5,800,000 | 0 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 6,630,000 | 6,630,000 | 0 |
| Institutional Services | |||
| General Fund | 72,287,000 | 73,882,000 | 1,595,000 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Federal | 1,210,000 | 1,210,000 | 0 |
| Total | 135,359,000 | 138,287,000 | 2,928,000 |
| Program | Total | Personal Service Regular (Annual Salaried) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount | Change | Amount | Change | |
| Executive Direction | 24,300,000 | 678,000 | 24,264,000 | 677,000 |
| Institutional Services | 36,745,000 | 626,000 | 33,765,000 | 575,000 |
| Total | 61,045,000 | 1,304,000 | 58,029,000 | 1,252,000 |
| Program | Temporary Service (Nonannual Salaried) |
Holiday/Overtime Pay | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount | Change | Amount | Change | |
| Executive Direction | 0 | 0 | 36,000 | 1,000 |
| Institutional Services | 825,000 | 14,000 | 2,155,000 | 37,000 |
| Total | 825,000 | 14,000 | 2,191,000 | 38,000 |
| Program | Total | Supplies and Materials | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount | Change | Amount | Change | |
| Executive Direction | 26,465,000 | 655,000 | 373,000 | 28,000 |
| Institutional Services | 37,137,000 | 969,000 | 5,980,000 | 410,000 |
| Total | 63,602,000 | 1,624,000 | 6,353,000 | 438,000 |
| Program | Travel | Contractual Services | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount | Change | Amount | Change | |
| Executive Direction | 575,000 | 44,000 | 7,575,000 | 574,000 |
| Institutional Services | 74,000 | 5,000 | 7,712,000 | 530,000 |
| Total | 649,000 | 49,000 | 15,287,000 | 1,104,000 |
| Program | Equipment | General State Charges | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount | Change | Amount | Change | |
| Executive Direction | 121,000 | 9,000 | 16,756,000 | 0 |
| Institutional Services | 353,000 | 24,000 | 22,021,000 | 0 |
| Total | 474,000 | 33,000 | 38,777,000 | 0 |
| Program | Special Departmental Charges | |
|---|---|---|
| Amount | Change | |
| Executive Direction | 1,065,000 | 0 |
| Institutional Services | 997,000 | 0 |
| Total | 2,062,000 | 0 |
| Program | Total | Personal Service | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount | Change | Amount | Change | |
| Executive Direction | 12,430,000 | 0 | 2,519,000 | (11,000) |
| Institutional Services | 1,210,000 | 0 | 516,000 | (2,000) |
| Total | 13,640,000 | 0 | 3,035,000 | (13,000) |
| Program | Nonpersonal Service | |
|---|---|---|
| Amount | Change | |
| Executive Direction | 9,911,000 | 11,000 |
| Institutional Services | 694,000 | 2,000 |
| Total | 10,605,000 | 13,000 |
| Fund Type | Available FY 2019 |
Recommended FY 2020 |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Fund | 417,232,000 | 417,878,000 | 646,000 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Federal | 145,160,000 | 145,160,000 | 0 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 11,013,000 | 11,013,000 | 0 |
| Total | 573,405,000 | 574,051,000 | 646,000 |
| Program | Available FY 2019 |
Recommended FY 2020 |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Treatment Services Program | |||
| General Fund | 341,389,000 | 314,152,000 | (27,237,000) |
| Special Revenue Funds - Federal | 116,160,000 | 116,160,000 | 0 |
| Prevention and Program Support | |||
| General Fund | 75,843,000 | 103,726,000 | 27,883,000 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Federal | 29,000,000 | 29,000,000 | 0 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Other | 11,013,000 | 11,013,000 | 0 |
| Total | 573,405,000 | 574,051,000 | 646,000 |
| Comprehensive Construction Program | Available FY 2019 |
Recommended FY 2020 |
Change | Reappropriations FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Facilities | ||||
| Capital Projects Fund | 4,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 0 | 26,465,000 |
| MH Capital Improvements - Authority Bonds | 75,000,000 | 65,000,000 | (10,000,000) | 433,237,000 |
| Design and Construction Supervision | ||||
| Capital Projects Fund | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 0 | 11,255,000 |
| MH Capital Improvements - Authority Bonds | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 0 | 823,000 |
| Facilities Maintenance and Operations | ||||
| Capital Projects Fund | 3,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 0 | 2,193,000 |
| Institutional Services Program | ||||
| Capital Projects Fund | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 0 | 7,616,000 |
| MH Capital Improvements - Authority Bonds | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | 0 | 49,964,000 |
| Non-Bondable Projects | ||||
| Capital Projects Fund | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 100,000,000 | 90,000,000 | (10,000,000) | 531,553,000 |
Note: Most recent estimates as of 1/15/2019