NAMI New Orleans Westbank

NAMI New Orleans Westbank

Services:
Emergency Mental Health Services
• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Pharmacotherapies

• Risperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Ziprasidone
• Quetiapine
• Clozapine
• Aripiprazole
• Fluphenazine
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Haloperidol
• Olanzapine
• Lurasidone
• Paliperidone

Payment Assistance Available

• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

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

• Private non-profit organization

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

• Partial hospitalization/day treatment
• Outpatient

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment

Ancillary Services

• Suicide prevention services
• Family psychoeducation
• Case management service
• Illness management and recovery
• Supported housing
• Education services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Intensive case management

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicaid
• Cash or self-payment
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Medicare

Treatment Approaches

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

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted without restriction

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults