Volunteers of America Alaska ARCH

Types of Care:

• residential treatment for heroin use
• inpatient treatment for heroin addiction and mental health diagnosis

Service Settings:

• residential heroin rehab
• residential long term heroin treatment
• short-term residential heroin rehab

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Buprenorphine treatment
• Naltrexone 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

Pharmacotherapies:

• Disulfiram (Antabuse)
• Buprenorphine sub-dermal implant (Probuphine)
• Buprenorphine with naloxone (Ex. Suboxone)
• Buprenorphine without naloxone
• Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable, for example, Sublocade)
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable naltrexone - Vivitrol)
• Medications for psychiatric disorders

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• motivational incentives
• DBT
• motivational interviewing
• relapse prevention treatment
• counseling for substance abuse
• trauma counseling
• 12 step rehabilitation

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Federal funding
• Accepts Tribal/Urban/IHS funding
• Accepts Medicaid
• Accepts private health insurance
• Accepts self payment and cash
• Accepts state health insurance

Payment Assistance Available:

• Provides payment assistance
• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• inpatient teen heroin rehab
• heroin rehab for LGBT clients
• judicial clients
• dual diagnosis treatment
• HIV/AIDS clients
• sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• people with trauma
• co-occurring substance abuse plus pain treatment

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Interim services for clients

Screening & Testing:

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

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning
• Naloxone and overdose education
• Outcome follow-up after discharge

Ancillary Services:

• recovery management
• sober housing services
• mental health services
• recovery training
• self help meetings
• social skills development
• group meetings

Counseling Services and Education:

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

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Nicotine replacement therapy
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications
• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking not allowed

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts adults
• accepts children under 18
• accepts young adults over 18

Gender Accepted:

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

Services for deaf:

• Services for the deaf and hard of hearing are available