Youth Challenge of Connecticut Inc Youth Challenge Mens Home

Types of Care:

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

Service Settings:

• long-term heroin rehab
• 90 day and 1 year inpatient heroin rehab
• short-term residential heroin rehab

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Buprenorphine clinical 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

Type Of Treatment:

• naltrexone administration
• relapse prevention from naltrexone

Pharmacotherapies:

• Disulfiram (Antabuse)
• Buprenorphine with naloxone (Ex. Suboxone)
• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable naltrexone - Vivitrol)
• Medications for psychiatric disorders
• Medications for HIV treatment
• Medications for Hepatitis C treatment

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• CBT
• motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• rational emotive behavioral therapy
• relapse prevention treatment
• 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
• State mental health department

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

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

Payment Assistance Available:

• Provides payment assistance

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• heroin rehab for transitional-age young adults
• in-patient heroin rehab for adult males
• heroin rehab for seniors
• heroin rehab for LGBT clients
• heroin rehab for vets
• active duty military
• 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 mental health assessment
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Interim services for clients
• 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
• 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
• HIV early intervention
• sober housing services
• mental health services
• self help meetings
• social skills training
• transportation assistance
• intervention services
• mentoring

Other Addictions Treatment:

• treatment for non-substance use addiction disorder
• gambling disorder treatment

Counseling Services and Education:

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

Tobacco/Screening Services:

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

Facility Smoking Policy:

• No smoking allowed

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts adults
• accepts young adults

Gender Accepted:

• heroin rehab for men

Additional Spoken Languages:

• Spanish