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About Akin Dba Childrens Home Society Of Wa

Type of Care

1. Mental health treatment

Facility which provides services including therapy or psychotropic medication to treat a person’s mental health issue, reduce symptoms, and improve behavioral functioning and outcomes.

2. Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Refers to treatment services intended to help their clients’ ability to function as a result of substance use and/or mental disorders. By definition, serious mental illness is someone over 18 having (within the past year) a diagnosable mental, behavior, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. For people under the age of 18, the term ‟Serious Emotional Disturbance” refers to a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder in the past year, which resulted in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits the child’s role or functioning in family, school, or community activities.

Treatment Approaches

1. Individual psychotherapy

Focuses on a patient's current life and relationships within the family, social, and work environments through one-on-one conversations with a therapist. The goal is to identify and resolve problems with insight, as well as build on strengths.

2. Couples/family therapy

An approach that uses discussions and problem-solving sessions facilitated by a therapist to help couples and family members improve their understanding of and the way they respond to one another. This type of therapy can resolve patterns of behavior that might lead to more severe mental illness. Family therapy can help educate about the nature of mental disorders and teach skills to better cope with the effects of having a family member with a mental illness, such as how to deal with feelings of anger or guilt.

3. Cognitive behavioral therapy

Involves recognizing unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting, and then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones. The therapy can be conducted with individuals, families, or groups, and clients are generally expected to be active participants in their own therapy.

4. Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

The ability for healthcare providers, working remotely and using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided.

5. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy

An interactive psychotherapy technique that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. During EMDR therapy sessions, people relive traumatic or triggering experiences in brief doses while the therapist directs the patient’s eye movements. This allows the patient to be exposed to the memories or thoughts without having a strong psychological response.

Facility Smoking Policy

1. Smoking permitted in designated area

A designated area in which smoking is permitted.

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

1. Outpatient

Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

1. Cash or self-payment

Payment for treatment is made by the person directly, through cash or other means, rather than using health insurance.

2. Medicaid

A joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.

3. Private health insurance

Emergency Mental Health Services

1. Crisis intervention team

A self-initiated community partnership between local law enforcement, county health services, mental health advocates, and mental health consumers. It is designed to address the needs of mental health consumers who enter the judicial system during a crisis state.

Language Services

1. Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Service provided for persons who are deaf and hard of hearing.

2. Spanish

Staff counselors provide treatment in Spanish.

Special Programs/Groups Offered

1. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)

Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for LGBT clients.

2. Young adults

Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Transitional age young adults.

Ancillary Services

1. Intensive case management

A service that is a key part of the continuum of mental health care and support for persons with serious mental illness. ICM is more than a brokerage function. It involves building a caring, trusting relationship with the consumer, promoting consumer independence through the coordination of appropriate services, and providing on-going, long-term support as needed by the consumer to function in the least restrictive, most natural environment and achieve an improved quality of life. Intensive case managers fulfill a vital function for consumers by working with them to realize personal recovery goals and providing the support and resources that the consumer needs to achieve goals, stabilize his/her life and improve his/her quality of life.

2. Case management service

Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.

3. Family psychoeducation

Helps consumers and their families and supporters, through relationship building, education, collaboration, and problem solving to: 1) learn about mental illness; 2) master new ways of managing their mental illness; 3) reduce tension and stress within the family; 4) provide social support and encouragement to each other; 5) focus on the future; and 6) find ways for families and supporters to help consumers in their recovery.

4. Therapeutic foster care

Provides treatment for children within the private homes of trained families. The approach combines the normalizing influence of family-based care with specialized treatment interventions, thereby creating a therapeutic environment in a nurturing family home.

Recovery Support Services

1. Mentoring/peer support

Age Groups Accepted

1. Children/Adolescents

Facility accepts children/adolescents (17 or younger) for treatment.

2. Young Adults

Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

1. Private non-profit organization

A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.

Facility Vaping Policy

1. Vaping permitted in designated area

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1014 Walla Walla Avenue
WA, Wenatchee, 98801, Chelan