Parish of Ascension Ascension Counseling Center

Types of Care:

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

Service Settings:

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

External Opioid Medications Source:

• Personal physician/health care provider

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:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Pharmacotherapies:

• Medications for psychiatric disorders
• Clonidine

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• CBT
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• rational emotive behavioral therapy
• relapse prevention
• substance use counseling approach
• trauma counseling

Facility Ownership:

• the local government

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 private health insurance
• Accepts self payment and cash

Payment Assistance Available:

• Payment assistance available
• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• inpatient heroin rehab for teens
• heroin rehab for transitional-age young adults

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

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning

Ancillary Services:

• case managers
• domestic violence services
• mental health services
• social skills training
• professional interventionist

Other Addictions Treatment:

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

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling services
• counseling for groups
• counseling for families
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Screening for tobacco use
• Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Gender Accepted:

• inpatient heroin rehab for women
• heroin rehab for men

Services for deaf:

• Service for hearing impaired