McAlister Institute for Treatment and Educ (MITE)/East County Regional Center

Types of Care:

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

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin rehab
• IOT
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

External Opioid Medications Source:

• Other contracted prescribing entity

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:

• Other contracted prescribing entity

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• CBT
• motivational incentives
• DBT
• motivational interviewing
• relapse prevention treatment
• substance use counseling approach
• trauma counseling
• 12 step rehabilitation

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Federal funding
• Accepts Medicaid
• Accepts self payment and cash
• Accepts state health insurance

Payment Assistance Available:

• Payment assistance available
• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• heroin rehab for transitional-age young adults
• residential heroin rehab for adult women
• heroin rehab for pregnant women
• in-patient heroin rehab for adult men
• heroin rehab for seniors and older adults
• heroin rehab for LGBT clients
• heroin rehab for veterans
• military families
• judicial clients
• dual diagnosis treatment
• people with HIV or AIDS
• sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• people with trauma
• people with co-occurring pain plus substance use

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Interim services for clients
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & Testing:

• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• HIV testing
• Screening for Hepatitis C
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• TB screening
• Drug and alcohol oral fluid testing

Transitional Services:

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

Ancillary Services:

• case managers
• housing services
• mental health services
• social skills development
• transportation assistance
• mentoring

Counseling Services and Education:

• counseling for individuals
• counseling for groups
• counseling for families
• counseling for couples
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS education
• health education services
• employment counseling services
• educational support

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted:

• adult heroin rehab
• accepts young adults

Gender Accepted:

• heroin rehab for women
• heroin rehab for men

Services for deaf:

• Service for hearing impaired

Additional Spoken Languages:

• French
• Spanish