Lafourche Behavioral Health

Lafourche Behavioral Health

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

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

• Outpatient

Ancillary Services

• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Education services
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Family psychoeducation
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service
• Illness management and recovery
• Integrated primary care services

Age Groups Accepted

• Seniors
• Children/Adolescents
• Young Adults
• Adults

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

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

• Local, county, or community government

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Medicare
• Cash or self-payment
• Medicaid
• Private health insurance

Pharmacotherapies

• Olanzapine
• Paliperidone
• Haloperidol
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Nicotine replacement
• Brexpiprazole
• Chlorpromazine
• Thiothixene
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Loxapine
• Lurasidone
• Risperidone
• Thioridazine
• Fluphenazine
• Quetiapine
• Aripiprazole
• Cariprazine
• Clozapine
• Ziprasidone
• Asenapine
• Trifluoperazine

Testing

• HIV testing
• TB screening
• Laboratory testing
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

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
• Substance use treatment

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Treatment Approaches

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