Persad Center Pittsburgh

Persad Center is an outpatient addiction treatment provider in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania delivering substance use counseling within a community mental health organization.

Its clinical services include counseling, addiction recovery support groups, trauma informed care, psychiatry with medication management and telehealth appointments.

It's built specifically to serve the LGBTQ+ and HIV affected communities not adapted to include them.

LGBTQ+  Affirming Treatment

Persad Center exists to improve the well being of the LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS communities.

Their substance use counseling, psychiatry, case management and support groups all operate inside that affirming framework.

For an LGBTQ+ person in Pittsburgh weighing treatment options that emphasis can make a huge difference.

Issues like stigma, identity, family estrangement and minority stress are treated as central to recovery work rather than as side topics a some counselors may or may not be equipped to handle.

This also makes Persad Center a specific fit rather than a universal one.

Someone seeking residential rehab or a medically supervised detox will need a different level of care since Persad offers outpatient community based treatment.

If your substance use is intertwined with identity related trauma or HIV few other Pittsburgh providers are structured around those realities from the ground up.

Reentry and Recovery Under One Roof

Persad Center integrates substance use care with services other treatment providers don't offer at all.

Its Project Silk program provides free and confidential HIV and STI testing, PrEP and PEP access and substance use counseling and referrals.

You can address addiction and sexual health in the same place.

Its Reentry Program supports people returning to the community from incarceration and provides them with recovery access.