Counseling First

Types of Care:

• residential heroin use treatment
• inpatient treatment for co-occurring mental health and heroin use

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin services
• intensive outpatient heroin treatment services
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• In-network prescribing entity
• Other contracted prescribing entity
• Personal physician/health care provider

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• CBT
• motivational incentives
• motivational interviewing
• rational emotive behavioral therapy
• relapse prevention
• counseling for substance abuse
• counseling for trauma victims

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency
• State mental health department

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Federal funding
• Accepts self payment and cash

Payment Assistance Available:

• Sliding fee scale

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & Testing:

• Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing
• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning
• Outcome follow-up after discharge

Ancillary Services:

• recovery management
• sober housing services
• mental health services
• social skills training

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling
• group counseling
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS education
• health education services

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts adults
• accepts young adults over 18

Gender Accepted:

• inpatient heroin rehab for women
• in-patient heroin rehab for men

Exclusive Services:

• Specially designed program for DUI/DWI clients