Halifax Health Behavioral Services

Halifax Health Behavioral Services

Services:
Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Other State funds
• Cash or self-payment
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• County or local government funds

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

• Partial hospitalization/day treatment
• Outpatient
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Pharmacotherapies

• Risperidone
• Clozapine
• Olanzapine
• Chlorpromazine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Aripiprazole

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Treatment Approaches

• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Couples/family therapy
• Activity therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment

Facility Type

• Psychiatric hospital

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Persons with eating disorders

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Ancillary Services

• Diet and exercise counseling
• Suicide prevention services
• Assertive community treatment
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Family psychoeducation
• Education services
• Case management service
• Intensive case management
• Illness management and recovery

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

• Local, county, or community government

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents

Type of Care

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

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Language Services

• Spanish
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing