Avita Community Partners Dawsonville MH/SA Clinic

Avita Community Partners Dawsonville MH/SA Clinic

Services:
Testing
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• TB screening

Payment Assistance Available

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

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

• Outpatient

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

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

• Private for-profit organization

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Pharmacotherapies

• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted in designated area

Type of Care

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Seniors
• Adults
• Children/Adolescents

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Veterans
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Members of military families
• Seniors or older adults
• Young adults
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Clients with HIV or AIDS

Treatment Approaches

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

Ancillary Services

• Supported housing
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Supported employment
• Suicide prevention services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Case management service
• Family psychoeducation

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• Medicaid
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• State education agency funds
• County or local government funds
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State welfare or child and family services funds

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use