Polish American Association Starting Point

Types of Care:

• residential treatment for heroin use

Service Settings:

• outpatient heroin services
• 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

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention services
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix model
• rational emotive behavioral therapy
• 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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Accepts Federal funding
• Accepts self payment and cash

Payment Assistance Available:

• Payment assistance available
• Sliding fee scale

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• heroin rehab for transitional-age young adults
• residential heroin rehab for adult women
• in-patient heroin rehab for adult males
• heroin rehab for seniors and older adults
• judicial clients
• co-occurring addiction and mental health treatment
• sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• people with trauma

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• 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 substance use

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning
• Outcome follow-up after discharge

Ancillary Services:

• recovery management
• domestic violence services
• self-help groups
• social skills development
• group meetings

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling
• counseling for groups
• counseling for families
• marital/couples counseling
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV/AIDS counseling
• health education services
• employment counseling and training

Tobacco/Screening Services:

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted:

• accepts adults
• accepts young adults

Gender Accepted:

• heroin rehab for women
• heroin rehab for men

Additional Spoken Languages:

• Polish