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Credo Community Center for Treatment of Addiction and
Transitional Living Services of Northern New York Announce Plans to Merge
Organizations
Published: May 11, 2023 at
05:30 p.m.
By: Joint Press Release from Credo Community Center
and Transitional Living Services
Credo Community Center and Transitional Living
Services of Northern New York to merge
WATERTOWN — Credo Community
Center for the Treatment of Addiction and Transitional Living Services of
Northern New York, both based in Watertown, have announced their plans to
consolidate the two organizations into one new entity.
Officials for
both agencies anticipate completing the merger process by Jan. 1, 2024. The
two leadership teams have informed their employees that no one will be laid
off due to the consolidation and that every individual has a place going forward under this arrangement. In fact, the new
entity will continue to increase its staff to adequately carry out the lifesaving
work these organizations have been focusing on for several decades.
John Wilson,
Credo’s executive director, will serve as chief executive officer of the
new entity. Maureen Cean, TLS’s executive
director, will become the organization’s chief operating officer.
“This opportunity
is very exciting. Working with clients with co-occurring disorders can be
very challenging,” Cean said. “The TLS staff is
eager to move forward with comprehensive care for mental health and
substance use disorders housed together under one roof.”
“We are pleased
to announce the marriage of Credo and TLS into what we want to call the
premier provider of behavioral health and housing services in Jefferson,
Lewis and St Lawrence counties,” Wilson said. “The coming together of our
two organizations is not one due to financial despair but about the people
we serve and the people we employ. It is imperative to have no wrong door
to care, and we aim to provide that!”
Both Credo and
TLS have well-established roots in Northern New York, and both recently
commemorated landmark anniversaries.
Founded in 1977,
TLS celebrated its 45th anniversary last year. It provides outpatient and
residential treatment services for individuals with serious mental illnesses,
serving youths and adults in a variety of residential and community-based
settings. TLS’s primary goal is to assist people to live in the least
restrictive setting possible. It serves clients in Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties.
And Credo is
celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, having been founded in 1973. It
provides addiction treatment and counseling services to individuals,
groups, families, adults, adolescents and children
whose lives have been adversely affected by substance use disorder. Serving
clients in the tri-county region, the agency has grown and developed to meet
the changing needs of its clients, the community and society.
Credo and TLS
have been collaborating more closely for the past few years and started
working under an affiliation agreement in April 2022. The leadership teams
of both agencies are excited about the possibilities this consolidation
will afford them and the benefits it will offer to their clients.
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