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At Choices, we help you find out what works best for you. Through individual counseling, we help you become more assertive and make well-considered changes. In our social support groups, we help build a community to enable you to overcome the challenges in the asylum seekers' center and focus on your new life in the Netherlands. If you are struggling with drug use, our groups support you in working with our psychologist to make changes for a healthier lifestyle.

Our integrated holistic approach revolves around your unique situation. How drug and alcohol use or mental health issues affect your life and can create obstacles to a healthy lifestyle. If you are an asylum seeker or have recently been granted a residence permit, we will help you build a solid foundation by staying connected to a positive social network.

Together with you, we will draw up a plan on how you can tackle this. Together, we will find the best way forward. If you need mental health care, drug treatment, or additional support services, we will help you obtain a referral letter for Choices Center for Care mental health treatment services or another organization that suits your specific needs.

Treatments

Individual support

From the first moment at Choices, we offer personalized support when working on issues of living in an AZC, or your concerns about substance abuse and sexual risk behavior. We help everyone find what works best for them. Our individual support is always a collaborative process, tailored to your wants and needs to achieve personalized prevention and treatment goals.

Social Support Group

Our social support groups connect people with others who, like you, have made a choice to change lifestyles, have adjusted to life in a new country or are considering some form of drug treatment. The groups focus on providing structure, goal setting and social support.

Sexual Health

Substance use regularly goes hand in hand with STI, hepatitis and HIV infections. This is why we focus on identifying and minimizing sexual risk behaviors. Choices offers behavioral interventions to prevent STI, hepatitis and HIV infections. For HIV/soa testing, treatment and PrEP, we work closely with GGDs in many communities including Soapoli-Online and SOAIDS Netherlands.

Choices is your safety net

We act as your 'safety net'. You can always come to us for acute help in a crisis situation. You do not need to be insured for this. We offer you support and provide the right information and offer triage and assessment interviews. We work together with mental health professionals and can, if necessary, refer you directly to specialist care, or to in-patient care or a hospital.