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A Review of ServiceNet in Massachusetts

There are a wide range of services available for people in the Pioneer Valley provided by ServiceNet. ServiceNet provides effective and responsive clinical, residential, rehabilitative, recovery and support services for people in need. Their staff of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, psychotherapists, social workers, counselors, physical and occupational therapists, and administrative and support staff are dedicated to helping adults, children, and families enhance their quality of life.

Services provided by ServiceNet

  1. Adult Mental Health Recovery Services
  2. Adult Behavioral Health Services
  3. Developmental and Brain Injury Services
  4. Addiction Services
  5. Shelter and Housing Services
  6. Health and Wellness Services
  7. Vocational Services

Addiction Services

Their outpatient substance abuse program starts out with a comprehensive assessment for every client. With a complete evaluation the staff is able to guide their client’s in the right direction. Because everyone’s needs are different their clients are matched with the services that are appropriate for their individual needs which could be individual, family or group treatment or a combination.

ServiceNet’s Addiction Services has 3 recovery homes that serve as transitional residences for women and men that are 18 years and older who are in the early stages of recovery for substance abuse. The environment is lightly structured, drug free, and is maintained through twenty four hour staffing and case management services. Their residents learn to take responsibility for their own recovery process as they share and support each other.

The outpatient behavioral health and substance abuse services at ServiceNet are staffed with dedicated and experienced licensed mental health clinicians, psychiatrists, and nurses. The staff at ServiceNet provides exceptional treatment for a wide range of problems. Other programs provided are driver alcohol education, second offense aftercare, and community corrections.

The goal for their residents is to establish a meaningful drug free life and be able to return to their community and live independently. Their residents are encouraged to develop a recovery support system in the community that they can rely on after they’re discharged.

ServiceNet in Massachusetts cares about people and offers a wide range of mental health and human services making a difference in the lives of those in need.

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A Review Of Alternative Care Treatment Systems (ACTS)

Alternative Care Treatment Systems (ACTS) provides person-centered, mental health, developmental disability and substance abuse services for those in need of treatment. They provide high quality services helping people with disabilities improve their lives in a caring and loving atmosphere.

ACTS has several locations and offers a vast amount of services to those in need. Alternative Care Treatment Systems locations in North Carolina include Beulaville, Clinton, Durham, WakeForest, Sanford, Wilson, Kenansville, Kinston, Lumberton, Fayetteville and Goldsboro.

ACTS Services

Community Support-Adults (MH/SA) consists of mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation services and supports that are necessary to assist the person in achieving and maintaining rehabilitative, sobriety, and recovery goals.

Community Support Child/Adolescents (MH/SA) are services and supports that are necessary to assist the youth ages 3 to 17 years of age or younger (20 years old or younger for children enrolled in Medicaid) and their caregivers in achieving and maintaining developmental, rehabilitative, and recovery goals.

Community Support Team (CST) (MH/SA) services consist of mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation services and supports that are necessary to assist adults aged 18 and older in achieving rehabilitative and recovery goals.

Diagnostic/Assessment (MH/DD/SA) is an intensive clinical and functional face to face evaluation of a recipient’s mental health, developmental disability, or substance abuse condition that results in the issuance of a Diagnostic/Assessment report with recommendation regarding whether the recipient meets target population criteria, and includes an order for enhanced benefit services that provides the basis for the development of an initial Person Centered Plan.

Targeted Case Management services are a required service for individual’s participating in this waiver. Targeted case management is a Medicaid State Plan service.

Person Centered Planning takes a strengths-based approach to identify services and supports that may be medically necessary to assist individuals in achieving their goals and objectives.

Intensive In Home Services is a time-limited intensive family preservation intervention that’s intended to stabilize the living arrangement, promote reunification or prevent the utilization of out of home therapeutic resources for the identified youth through the age of 20.

Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) is a service provided by an interdisciplinary team that ensures services availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is prepared to carry out a full range of treatment functions wherever and whenever needed.

CAP Services Day Supports provide assistance with acquisition, retention, or improvement in self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills, which take place in a non-residential setting, separate from the home or facility in which the individual resides.

Developmental Therapy is a developmental disability service that includes individually designed instruction, training or functional developmental intervention activities based on the assessment of, and unique strengths and needs of the child, youth, and family or adult.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) is a service that’s designed to help adults with psychiatric disabilities increase their functioning so that they can be successful and satisfied in the environments of their choice with the least amount of ongoing professional intervention.

Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program (SAIOP) is a structured individual and group addiction activity and service that is provided on an outpatient basis. SAIOP is designed to assist adult and adolescent consumers in beginning recovery and learning skills for recovery maintenance.

Individual Psychotherapy, Psychiatric Services, Group Psychotherapy, and Medication Management are also part of ACTS services. Alternative Care Treatment Systems in North Carolina crisis lines are available in all areas they serve and are available to consumers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

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A Review of Midwest Rapid Detox

Addiction to Opiates is continuing to increase throughout the world and is a major health problem that affects everyone. It doesn’t matter if its heroin, methadone, painkillers or other opiate based drugs and medicines, the symptoms and the illness of addiction are very similar.

Midwest Rapid Opiate Detoxification Specialist LLC (MRODS) is a safe and effective method of rapid opiate detox as well as a sound continuing care recovery program. The naltrexone implant is also offered to their patients to ensure relapse prevention post detox. MRODS helps their patients find freedom from the miserable withdrawal symptoms of opiate based drugs.

At MRODS they’re able to detoxify their patients in 6 hours or less while they’re under anesthesia comfortably and successfully. They have over a decade of experience in providing their patients Anesthesia Assisted Rapid Opiate Detoxification (AAROD). This form of detoxification is also referred to as Rapid Detox, Rapid Opiate Detox, and Ultra Rapid Opiate Detoxification (UROD). Midwest Rapid Opiate Detoxification Specialist is also the only program that integrates addiction treatment as part of their program which is extremely important.

Midwest Rapid Opiate Detoxification Specialist in Illinois is the largest provider of rapid opiate detox with hospital based Anesthesia-Assisted Rapid Opiate Detoxification clinics in Chicago and Dallas. Their Rapid detox accelerates opiate detoxification which allows their patients to successfully undergo treatment for their addiction.

Not everyone is a good candidate for rapid opiate detox so MRODS makes sure that every patient is rigorously evaluated and screened before the Anesthesia Assisted Rapid Opiate Detox procedure. Their anesthesiologists are board certified and highly trained and they want make sure the patient is provided safe and effective treatment.

MRODS is committed to their patients and their families so they don’t just offer rapid detox and send the patient home, they understand that most people need support and structured treatment after rapid detox is completed. Their program provides their patients a smooth transition to a level of care that’s appropriate for their patients and their loved ones. This allows for continued recovery in the home environment.

Midwest Rapid Opiate Detoxification Specialists are the only rapid detox provider with a licensed addiction treatment center (New Hope Recovery Center) available at a discounted rate to people who have completed the rapid detox procedure. Their clients are monitored for a minimum of a year following their rapid detox procedure for continued abstinence.

Continued Care

Their patients are discharged the following morning after the AAROD procedure is completed and ongoing recovery begins. When detox is completed the patient is discharged from hospitalization and begins a continuing care program that assures continuing recovery. Depending on the patients individual needs this can include Outpatient Treatment, Follow up with a pain specialists, Residential Treatment, and Individual Counseling.

Midwest Rapid Opiate Detoxification Specialists provides follow up and support for a year after discharge as mentioned above. Their patients also begin a six month regimen with an FDA approved non addicting relapse prevention drug that’s taken orally daily or as a Naltrexone injection implant that’s replaced every two months.

Intervention

At MRODS, they understand that sometimes individuals that are addicted to alcohol or drugs aren’t able to stop their negative behaviors on their own and when family and friends intervene, sometimes the situation just gets worse. An intervention can motivate a person to get the help they need and a trained interventionist from MRODS can make a major difference in the impact of the intervention. The staff at MRODS understands what the person in need of help and the family and friends are going through. A well prepared intervention can make a big difference in everyone’s life.

People of all ages today have become dependent on prescription opiate based painkillers and are in need of help. Some of the narcotic pain reliever’s people are addicted to include Vicodin, Codeine, OxyContin, Morphine, Lorcet, Darvon, Demerol, and Percocet. MRODS understands what you’re going through and they realize what addiction does to a person. They understand the despair, sadness, and devastation that people experience when they’re addicted to opiate drugs and their rapid opiate detox program helps their patients get their life back.

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A Review of the Crisis Center of Johnson County in Iowa

What you will find at the Crisis Center of Johnson County are extremely compassionate people who are passionate about what they do. The Crisis Center values the people they help that are in crisis as ‘valuable human beings’ which is why they’re so successful. Because of the passion they have for people they’re able to excel in providing them practical help.

The Crisis Center in Iowa has come a long way, in 1970 a group of University of Iowa undergraduates needed to find a place they could go to that was safe to talk about problems they were having. They began working with Verne Kelley who was the director at the Community Mental Health Center during that time. The students established what is now known today as the Crisis Center of Johnson County.

Volunteers are the heart of this wonderful Crisis Center organization, the center is fueled by precious gifts of time, talent and treasure that comes from local people and organizations and the results the Crisis Center receives from helping people that are in crisis is inspiring.

How the Crisis Center on Johnson County Helps

When a situation becomes too hard and difficult for a person to deal with by them self, the Crisis Center is there to help. They provide immediate support through their Crisis Intervention, Food Bank & Emergency Assistance, and their Community Intervention Programs. A crisis can be anything, there may be problems with family or friends, a need for food, a financial emergency, a divorce, a serious illness, problems with a roommate, or school related stress, substance abuse issues, or suicidal feelings. When it comes to a crisis, the list is endless. Sometimes there are several small problems a person is going through and it has become overwhelming to the individual. The Crisis Center in Johnson County is there to help.

The Crisis Center has many dedicated volunteers that offer emotional or material assistance and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This community based organization is dedicated and successful because of the wonderful volunteers and financial and material support from people, organizations, churches, and businesses. Because of this wonderful support, the Crisis Center is able to serve more than 24,000 individual’s that are in need every year.

  1. There is always an empathetic ear on the end of the telephone line
  2. Groceries will be on the kitchen table if needed
  3. Referrals that help people get out of crisis are available
  4. Emergency financial support to avoid eviction or loss of utilities
  5. Every year there are fewer suicides

Services offered at the Crisis Center include a 24 hour crisis line, crisis chat, a food bank, emergency assistance, community programs and disaster recovery and relief.

If you’re looking to volunteer your time, donate food or if you’re able to donate financially, the Crisis Center in Johnson County is a wonderful organization to consider, helping and caring about people is who they are and what they’re all about.

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