McAlister Institute for Treatment and Educ (MITE)/STRC

Types of Care:

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

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin rehabilitation
• intensive outpatient heroin treatment
• regular outpatient heroin treatment

External Opioid Medications Source:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Does not use medication for alcohol use disorder

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• CBT
• DBT
• motivational interviewing
• relapse prevention
• counseling for substance abuse
• counseling for trauma victims
• 12 step rehabilitation

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency
• State department of health
• Certified by Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Federal funding
• Accepts Medicaid
• Accepts self payment and cash

Payment Assistance Available:

• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• inpatient heroin rehab for teens
• heroin rehab for LGBT
• military families
• judicial clients
• dual diagnosis treatment
• sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• people with trauma

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 mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• TB screening

Transitional Services:

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

Ancillary Services:

• case management
• domestic violence services
• HIV early intervention
• sober housing services
• mental health services
• self-help groups
• social skills training
• mentoring

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling services
• counseling for groups
• counseling for families
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS education
• health education services
• employment counseling and training

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking not permitted

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts children under 18

Gender Accepted:

• heroin rehab for women
• heroin rehab for men

Services for deaf:

• Service for hearing impaired

Additional Spoken Languages:

• Spanish