The Fortune Society Receives Grant to Improve Health Services for People Released from Rikers

The Fortune Society, a Long Island City-based non-profit that has helped formerly incarcerated citizens reintegrate into the community since 1967, has launched a new program to prevent people released from Rikers Island from relapsing into substance use.

Fortune’s Connections to Care Program has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the OneCity Health Innovation Fund to implement its project, which connects these individuals with primary health care and holistic support services in the community. The program is focused on chronically ill, Medicaid-eligible adults with opioid use disorders.