VA Central California Healthcare Sys Substance Use Disorder Program

VA Central California Healthcare Sys Substance Use Disorder Program

Services:
Facility Type
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

Treatment Approaches

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

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Veterans
• Seniors or older adults
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons with Alzheimer’s or dementia
• Active duty military
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Seniors
• Adults

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Pharmacotherapies

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

Ancillary Services

• Supported housing
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Supported employment
• Education services
• Integrated primary care services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services

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

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Federal Government

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• HIV testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• TB screening
• STD testing

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

• Outpatient
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

License/Certification/Accreditation

• Federally Qualified Health Center