8411 Broadway Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44105, 216-441-0200
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History
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In 1990, the Community
Assessment Foundation
opened its doors in
Cleveland, Ohio to provide
chemical dependency and
mental health services,
rehabilitation, and empowerment
to private individuals as well as
to individuals referred from
the justice system who were
suffering with substance abuse
and/or mental health problems.
The Community Assessment Foundation originally provided services in affiliation with
St. Michael’s Hospital, located in Cleveland’s Broadway-Fleet neighborhood.
In 1994, the Community Assessment Foundation became a full-fledged non-profit,
human services organization as Community Assessment and Treatment Services, Inc.
(CATS).
In 2002, with St. Michael's Hospital closing, CATS moved
to a new building near the intersection of Broadway
Avenue and Harvard Avenue in Cleveland's historic
Slavic Village neighborhood.
In 2008 CATS added a new service, CATS Plus, which serves
as a residential, aftercare and reentry program for men and
women coming our of residential care and beginning to
reenter society.
In August 2010, CATS more than doubled the size of their
building by opening an addition that centralized all of their
main services in one building.
Over the past 20 years CATS has provided the
highest-quality drug and alcohol addiction and mental
health services to over 17,000 men and women.
Overview
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CATS manages numerous programs targeted to a
variety of specific populations. We offer multiple levels
of care ranging from outpatient to residential services.
At present CATS has three sites with the capacity to
serve:
• 29 men in the residential Therapeutic Community
which provides which provides four to six
months of residential treatment.
• 38 men in the Men's Residential Treatment
Program, which provides treatment from 30
to 90 days.
• 48 women in the Women's Residential Treatment Program, which provides
treatment from 30 to 90 days.
• CATS has a total of 107 residential beds.
• CATS Plus Program currently has a capacity to serve 18 men.
• The CATS Outpatient Program serves up to 90 individuals a day, providing
assessments, individual and group counseling, and case management
services.
To date, Cats has served over 30,000 individuals and their families. CATS experiences
a 78% success rate, defined as individuals who enter treatment and complete their
assigned level of care.

Vision
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CATS strives to grow as an organization committed to our mission to
deliver highly professional, state-of-the-art chemical dependency and
mental health services to the under-served and the under-represented.
To provide high quality, cost effective, holistic abstinence-based intervention and
prevention services. These services address the chemical-dependency or mental
health needs of a diverse clientele
Mission
Broadway Avenue, traveling south toward Harvard Avenue. circa 1920
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CATS experiences remarkable results with the criminal justice population through the use of best practices and positive treatment.
CATS offers men and women the help, tools, and support they need to recover from and eliminate the negative behaviors associated with criminal activity.
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