Advocates Community Counseling Waltham

Advocates Community Counseling Waltham

Services:
Language Services
• Spanish
• Other languages (excluding Spanish)
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

License/Certification/Accreditation

• State department of health
• Council on Accreditation (COA)
• State Substance use treatment agency
• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
• State mental health department

Testing

• TB screening

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity

Education and Counseling Services

• Individual counseling
• Family counseling
• Marital/couples counseling
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
• Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
• Group counseling
• Substance use disorder education

Treatment Approaches

• Brief intervention
• Contingency management/motivational incentives
• Trauma-related counseling
• Community reinforcement plus vouchers
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Anger management
• Motivational interviewing
• Relapse prevention
• Substance use disorder counseling
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for substance use
• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Outreach to persons in the community
• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted in designated area

Other Languages

• Portuguese
• Any Chinese Language

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

• Private non-profit organization

Pharmacotherapies

• Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
• Medication for mental disorders
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Nicotine replacement
• Clonidine
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Lofexidine
• Buprenorphine with naloxone

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services
• Assistance with obtaining social services
• Recovery coach
• Employment counseling or training

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicare
• Private health insurance
• Medicaid
• SAMHSA funding/block grants
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Cash or self-payment

Other Services

• Treatment for other addiction disorder
• Treatment for gambling disorder

Type of Opioid Treatment

• Prescribes naltrexone
• Prescribes buprenorphine
• Relapse prevention with naltrexone
• Buprenorphine maintenance
• Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere

Type of Care

• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Substance use treatment

Transitional Services

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

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

External Opioid Medications Source

• Other contracted prescribing entity

Ancillary Services

• Case management service
• Suicide prevention services
• Mental health services
• Social skills development

Opioid Medications used in Treatment

• Buprenorphine used in Treatment
• Naltrexone used in Treatment

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
• This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder
• Does not use medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder

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

• Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
• Outpatient
• Regular outpatient treatment

Gender Accepted

• Female
• Male