Kern Linkage/North Chester Center Adult Outpatient

Kern Linkage/North Chester Center Adult Outpatient

Services:
Facility Smoking Policy
• Smoking permitted in designated area

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicare
• Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Pharmacotherapies

• Paliperidone
• Thiothixene
• Perphenazine
• Chlorpromazine
• Haloperidol
• Fluphenazine
• Aripiprazole
• Risperidone
• Lurasidone
• Olanzapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Clozapine
• Trifluoperazine
• Brexpiprazole
• Quetiapine

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

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

• Outpatient

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Group therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Dialectical behavior therapy

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

Language Services

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

Type of Care

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

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

• Local, county, or community government

Ancillary Services

• Supported housing
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Intensive case management
• Assisted Outpatient Treatment
• Education services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Suicide prevention services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Supported employment
• Case management service