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.
1. Community mental health center
Facility that (1) provides outpatient services, including specialized services for children, the elderly, individuals who are chronically mentally ill, and residents of its mental health service area who have been discharged from inpatient treatment at a mental health facility; (2) provides 24-hour emergency care services; (3) provides day treatment, other partial hospitalization services, or psychosocial rehabilitation services; (4) provides screening for patients being considered for admission to state mental health facilities to determine the appropriateness of the admission; and (5) meets applicable licensing or certification requirements for Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) in the state in which it is located. (https://www.cms.gov/)
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. 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.
3. 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.
1. Smoking permitted in designated area
A designated area in which smoking is permitted.
1. Outpatient
Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
1. Local, county, or community government
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. Medicare
The federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.
4. Private health insurance
5. State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
Funds designed to finance the cost of treatment for mental health conditions.
6. State welfare or child and family services funds
7. State corrections or juvenile justice funds
8. Other State funds
9. County or local government funds
10. Community Mental Health Block Grants
Through individual block grant contracts with community mental health services programs, these resources are focused on development and maintenance of community based 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.
2. Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
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.
1. Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
Variable prices for services based on a person’s ability to pay.
2. Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
A program which helps low-income, uninsured, or underinsured patients who need help paying for all or part of their medical bills.
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.
1. 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.
2. Suicide prevention services
Services include identifying risk factors; educating staff on the signs of suicidal behavior and using methods to detect risk; and the assessment, intervention, and management of suicidal patients including treatment of an underlying mental or substance use disorder, and use of psychotropic medication, supportive services, and education. Hotlines help individuals to contact the nearest suicide prevention mental health provider.
1. Mentoring/peer support
1. Nicotine replacement
Administers nicotine to the body by means other than tobacco, without other harmful chemicals found in tobacco. Common forms of nicotine replacement therapy are nicotine patches, nicotine gum or lozenges, nasal spray and inhaler. The goal of nicotine replacement is to prevent cravings in a tobacco user, allowing the person to abstain from tobacco.
2. Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
Medications that do not contain nicotine but are designed to reduce a person's craving for tobacco. Some common examples are Bupropion (Zyban, Wellbutrin) and Nortriptyline (Pamelor). Medications are often prescribed in conjunction with counseling or support groups to provide the best chance for achieving long-term smoking abstinence. (http://www.mayoclinic.com)
3. Chlorpromazine
4. Fluphenazine
5. Haloperidol
6. Perphenazine
7. Aripiprazole
8. Asenapine
9. Brexpiprazole
10. Cariprazine
11. Clozapine
12. Lurasidone
13. Olanzapine
14. Paliperidone
15. Quetiapine
16. Risperidone
17. Ziprasidone
18. Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
Refers to medication intended to help clients’ ability to function as a result of serious mental illness (SMI). A mental illness that interferes with a person’s life and ability to function is called a serious mental illness (SMI) for ages 18 and over.
1. Screening for tobacco use
Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.
1. Children/Adolescents
Facility accepts children/adolescents (17 or younger) for treatment.
2. Young Adults
Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.
3. Adults
Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.
4. Seniors
Facility accepts seniors (65 or older) for treatment.
1. Metabolic syndrome monitoring
1. Vaping permitted in designated area