Direct Access allows an individual to go directly to a provider they choose to receive a comprehensive assessment and access care immediately. The county will assess individuals who need help paying for a chemical use assessment or treatment services through the Behavioral Health Fund. Services also include: - Designated staff that provide chemical dependency assessments - Referral to local community service providers for chemical assessments or treatment services. Also, directs individuals to visit www.fasttrackermn.org for additional resources. ?- When legal intervention is required, staff can assist with mental health and chemical dependency commitments

Provides outpatient chemical dependency treatment services to adults struggling with chemical dependency and mental health disorders. Offers services that are evidence-based practice models, group-focused, and non-residential substance programs. The program offers an individual-based duration depending on needs and participation. Transition to outpatient or aftercare groups is available for continuing care needs. Also provides addiction and substance use counceling.

Provides outpatient substance use disorder and co-occurring disorder treatment services. Services include: - Chemical use assessments to identify diagnosis - Family education held every six weeks - Treatment program

Provides chemical dependency treatment, including: - Comprehensive outpatient program including day and evening treatment options - Comprehensive chemical health assessment - Daily chemical education and support groups - Methadone and Buprenorphine (Suboxone) Treatment - Medically supervised taper

Provides community health services such as: - Breastfeeding and lactation consultant - Car seat education - Childbirth education classes - Child and teen checkups - Child home safety checks - Communicable disease follow-up and cancer prevention - Community nutrition educator - Diabetes prevention - Doula program to support women throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum - Family planning - Immunizations for adults and children - Maternal child health home visiting - Parenting education ?- Tobacco Cessation

Direct Access allows an individual to go directly to a provider they choose to receive a comprehensive assessment and access care immediately. Provides funding for eligible individuals seeking chemical dependency services is available through the Consolidated Chemical Dependency Treatment Fund. Chemical dependency assessment is available for eligible individuals and both voluntary and court-ordered individuals. Possible referrals and arrangements made for primary treatment, extended care, halfway house and other services.

Mental Health and Psychiatry Services: - Diagnostic Assessments - Genetic Testing: For the purpose of understanding about clients and the effectiveness of treatments. With genetic testing, providers can better understand the reasons, factors, and risks associated with individuals, including medication reactions, to better predict successful outcomes and basic concepts of genes and how they can influence the client's health and response toward particular treatments. - Individual, Family and Marriage Counseling - Medication Management: Provides monitoring of medications that a client takes to ensure that he or she is complying with a medication regimen, while also ensuring the client is avoiding potentially dangerous drug interactions and other complications. - Medication Therapy and Counseling: Offers a medication-assisted treatment program for alcohol and opiate addiction. The medication options administered along with a tailored therapy plan are Vivitrol and Suboxone, both of which are used to reduce withdrawal symptoms; decrease cravings; and prevent use of heroin, opioids, and alcohol. - Psychiatric Consultations: Provides comprehensive evaluations to individuals of psychological, biological, medical, and social causes of emotional distress. - Telehealth (available statewide) - Treatment Planning: Each individual enrolled in the program will create a treatment plan with a counselor. The treatment plan will be customized, compiled of goals and objectives based on an individual client's needs and wants. Substance Use Treatment Services: - Comprehensive Substance Use Assessments: The comprehensive assessment is done with a counselor to establish a better understanding of the individual's past and current substance use. The assessment screens for mental and physical health needs as well. In addition, the Rule 25 substance use assessment is performed by a certified assessor, which helps to determine placement and level of care. - Family Therapy (Group or Individual): This is counselor-facilitated therapy designed for spouses, family members, and friends of people who struggle with addiction to come together with clients and others who share similar experiences. This service is interactive and focuses on the role addiction plays in family dynamics. The goal of family therapy is for family members and clients to gain insight into the nature of addiction and how it affects the whole family. Family members will learn how to identify what behaviors support recovery and what behaviors inhibit recovery, along with learning tools and gaining resources on how to help them. - Group Therapy: Group therapy consists of being with peers that share many of the same struggles. During group therapy, clients share the objectives they have completed and receive feedback from the counselor and other group members. Everyone is counseled as an individual in a group. Group therapy is beneficial for a variety of factors: instillation of hope, universality, gaining knowledge through others experience, and having a sense of belonging, to name a few. - Individual Therapy: Individuals who are in group therapy will also receive individual therapy with an LADC. Individual therapy is beneficial for treatment planning and being able to work on core issues that are not appropriate or comfortable in a group setting. - Medication Therapy and Counseling: Medication therapy and counseling is a service or group of services that optimizes drug therapy with the intent of improved therapeutic outcomes. - Medication-Assisted Treatment Program: Offers a medication-assisted treatment program for alcohol and opiate addiction. The medication options administered along with a tailored therapy plan are Vivitrol and Suboxone, both of which are used to reduce withdrawal symptoms; decrease cravings; and prevent use of heroin, opioids, and alcohol. - Primary Day and Evening Group: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from (9:00am - 12:00pm or 5:30pm - 8:30pm) This is an intensive program designed to present information in a format that helps clients gain a fresh perspective in areas they have had difficulty internalizing and putting into practice in their daily struggle with addiction. This is an outcome-based program. Length of time is dependent upon the client's progress and special needs. - Treatment Planning

Provides primary care medical services including: - Chronic disease management including diabetes and smoking - Elder care - Immunizations - Medication management - Sexually transmitted disease screenings and treatment - Teen health screenings - Urgent care Provides women's health care services including: - Colposcopies - Family planning, IUDs, and implants - Menopause support - OB ultrasound - Pap smear and mammogram - Prenatal care and childbirth education Provides men's health care services including: - Male reproductive health - Mental and behavioral health referrals - Prostate health Provides pediatric health care services including: - Hearing and vision screening - Sports physicals - Well child exams and immunizations

Assessments including: - Anger assessment - Diagnostic assessment (sometimes referred to as a mental health assessment). Telehealth appointments available utilizing Zoom for this service. - Domestic abuse/violence assessment - Psychological Assessment - Substance use disorder assessment

Outpatient family counseling agency providing individual, couples, and family counseling in the following areas: - ADD/ADHD - Anger management - Bereavement/grief counseling - Christian counseling - Chronic disease counseling - Crime victim counseling - Cultural transition counseling - Depression/mood disorders? - Developmental/Transitional Issues - Dialectic Behavioral Therapy DBT: Individual only; not available in a group setting - Disaster counseling - Dissociative Disorders counseling - Employment transition counseling - Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing EMDR - Family parent issues - Family violence counseling (adult incest survivor, child abuse counseling, child incest counseling, elder abuse, etc.) - Gender identity counseling - Geriatric counseling - Hypnosis - Juvenile delinquency diversion counseling - Marriage counseling - Medication management - Mental health evaluation including clinical evaluation, psychological testing, and psychosocial evaluation - Overspenders counseling - Pain management - Postabortion counseling - Postpartum counseling - Premarital counseling - Sexual Addiction counseling - Telemedicine services

- Provides crisis mental health services to consumers 24 hours 365 days a year - Services include talking with a Mental Health Practitioner over the phone, mobile (in-person) crisis intervention, follow up counseling and referral to resources, and crisis stabilization. - Requests for intervention can be made by family/friends/community members and community agencies, if the client agrees to meet with CRT. - Assists with problem resolution and coordination of increasing mental health services for individuals for whom this would be helpful. - Trained persons are available to the police and emergency wards to provide assessments of mental health emergencies, to develop an intervention plan, and arrange for any needed services identified in the plan.

Chemical dependency treatment programs which include: - Chemical dependency assessment and referral - Continuing Care - Dual Diagnosis treatment - Intensive outpatient treatment - Program for family members and significant others - Residential treatment

Residential and outpatient evidence-based substance use and mental health disorders treatment targeted for women. Walk-ins are welcome and transportation is provided.

Residential treatment services for chemically dependent men. Services include: - Aftercare services - Case management - Co-Occurring Disorders Program (Recovery management) - Community referrals (Links to supportive housing) - Family programming - Group counseling/therapy - Individualized treatment planning - Life skills education - Medication monitoring - One-to-one counseling - Relapse prevention education - Relationship group (Healthy communication/support system and family reintegration) - 12-step meeting

Intensive outpatient mental health treatment aimed to help reduce or relieve the effects of symptoms associated with a diagnosed mental illness. The program provides skills training, education, and therapy in a group format which will result in help people living and functioning more independently in the community. Day Treatment includes: ? - Enhanced illness management and recovery - Group psychotherapy - Individualized treatment planning - Integrated co-occurring diagnoses strategies - Mind and body integration strategies - Motivational interviewing - Social skills education and practice (Virtual and in-person options available)

- Focuses on AA/NA (steps 6-12) - Facilitates a Talking Circle - Inventory of step 10 monitoring materials and other group assignments - Step down system- Equivalent to approximately 1 year: Group A- minimum 6 weekly meetings then step down to; Group B- for 4 biweekly group sessions, then step down to; Group C- for a minimum of 2 monthly group sessions, then step down to; Group D- 2 bimonthly group sessions, then step down to; Group E- 1 Trimonthly group session All to include 1:1 individual therapy including possible service coordination.

Provide assistance and support to veterans and their dependents in obtaining benefits through county, state, and federal programs. Benefits include: - Alcohol and drug dependency treatment - Death and burial benefits - Dental and optical vouchers for both qualified veterans and their spouses - Discharge review - Education and training - GI Bill education training - GI life insurance - Home loan guaranteed by the USDVA - Outpatient medical care - Medical assistance in veterans hospitals and grants for non-veteran hospitals - Non-service related disability pension - Service related disability compensation - Survivors and dependents education - Vocational rehabilitation for the disabled

- DARE has become a regular part of every 5th graders education in Itasca County - Police officers spend one hour a week for 17 weeks teaching youth various ways of resisting drugs, alcohol and tobacco abuse as well as violence - Officers will follow a structured curriculum that focuses not only on drug use/misuse and personal safety, but also stress on building self-esteem and handling peer pressure - Local law enforcement staff have received 90 hours of training to facilitate the program - It is also available in every 5th grade class in every school district in Itasca County

Provides substance use disorders comprehensive assessments. A qualified licensed drug and alcohol counselor conducts the assessment and provides referrals to treatment if needed.

Direct Access allows an individual to go directly to a provider they choose to receive a comprehensive assessment and access care immediately. Provides assessments and recommendations for services and support for chemically dependent persons

Provides primary care and specialty medical services to patients. Services include: - Allergy and Immunology - Cardiology - Chemical dependency - Direct Access Testing - Family Medicine - General surgery - Immunizations - Laboratories - Mammography - Obstetrics and Gynecology - Oncology - Ophthalmology - Physical Therapy - Pulmonology - Radiology - Urology - Walk-In - Wound Care

Services include: - Individual and group counseling - Transportation services to and from Outpatient Treatment, Continuing Care and Medical Appointments (218) 335-7250 - Child care costs with licensed provider - Referrals to medical and mental health appointments for women and their children - Referrals to prenatal and postpartum check-ups - Biweekly case management follow-up sessions - Referrals for immuniazations for women and their children - Continuing care on Wednesdays 11 am - 2 pm - Talking Circle - Traditional Education - Positive Parenting Education - Living Skills - Special issues education: HIV, FAS, FAE - Women's health issues - Client's Children Program

- AIDS/HIV prevention, education, intervention, and positive test result counseling - Assessments and anger management in group or one-on-one therapy settings - Chemical health assessments including referrals to treatment options - Cultural-specific therapy for Sudanese and Somali refugees - Grief counseling including crisis intervention for individuals, couples, and families that are in crisis as a result of transition, loss, grief, or bereavement - Relapse prevention therapy to assist in minimizing and ending relapses

Provides outpatient substance use disorder and co-occurring disorder treatment services. Services include: - Chemical use assessments to identify diagnosis - Family education held every six weeks - Treatment program

Helps individuals living with drug and/or alcohol addiction by reducing barriers and finding ongoing support to lower future risks. When to call for assistance: - After an overdose - Concerns about chemical use - Facing barriers to accessing resources - Seeking support or treatment - Need for naloxone