Acadiana CARES Residential Halfway House

Types of Care:

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

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin services
• residential heroin rehab
• outpatient heroin day treatment
• intensive outpatient heroin treatment program
• outpatient methadone/buprenorphine/naltrexone treatment
• regular outpatient heroin treatment
• residential long term heroin treatment

Opioid Medications used in Treatment:

• Naltrexone clinical treatment

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Administers medication for alcohol use disorder

Type Of Treatment:

• administers naltrexone
• relapse prevention from naltrexone

Pharmacotherapies:

• Acamprosate (Campral)
• Naltrexone (oral)
• 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
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• relapse prevention treatment
• substance use counseling approach
• 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
• Hospital licensing authority

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

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

Payment Assistance Available:

• Provides payment assistance
• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• residential heroin rehab for adult women
• in-patient heroin rehab for adult males
• heroin rehab for LGBT clients
• dual diagnosis treatment
• people with HIV or AIDS
• sexual abuse victims
• people with trauma

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
• HIV testing
• Screening for Hepatitis B
• Screening for Hepatitis C
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• STD testing
• TB screening

Transitional Services:

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

Ancillary Services:

• case management
• HIV early intervention
• sober housing services
• mental health services
• self help meetings
• social skills development
• transportation assistance
• mentoring

Counseling Services and Education:

• counseling for individuals
• group counseling
• family counseling
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS support
• health education services
• employment counseling and training

Medical Services:

• Hepatitis A vaccination
• Hepatitis B vaccination

Tobacco/Screening Services:

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

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts adults
• accepts young adults over 18

Gender Accepted:

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