Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Adolescent Medicine

Types of Care:

• substance use treatment
• dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring serious mental health illness/serious emotional disturbance and substance use disorders

Service Settings:

• outpatient treatment
• regular outpatient treatment

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment:

• Personal physician/health care provider

Treatment Approaches:

• anger management
• brief intervention
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• motivational incentives
• dialectical behavior therapy
• motivational interviewing
• matrix Model
• rational emotive behavioral therapy
• relapse prevention
• substance use counseling approach
• trauma counseling

Facility Ownership:

• a private non-profit organization

License/Certification/Accreditation:

• State substance abuse agency
• State department of health
• Hospital licensing authority
• The Joint Commission

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted:

• Federal, or any government funding for substance use programs
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Special Programs/ Population Groups Supported:

• teenagers
• transitional-age young adults
• LGBT
• judicial clients
• dual diagnosis treatment
• people with HIV or AIDS
• sexual abuse victims
• domestic violence victims
• people with trauma
• people with co-occurring pain and substance use

Assessment/Pre-treatment:

• Comprehensive substance use assessment
• Outreach to persons in the community

Screening & Testing:

• HIV testing
• Screening for Hepatitis C
• Screening for mental disorders
• Screening for substance use
• STD testing

Transitional Services:

• Aftercare/continuing care
• Discharge Planning
• Naloxone and overdose education
• Outcome follow-up after discharge

Ancillary Services:

• Case management
• Domestic violence services
• Early intervention for HIV
• Housing services
• Mental health services
• Social skills development
• Transportation assistance
• Professional interventionist/Educational consultants
• Mentoring/Peer support

Counseling Services and Education:

• individual counseling
• group counseling
• family counseling
• substance use education
• hepatitis education, counseling and support
• HIV and AIDS education, counseling and support
• health education services
• employment counseling and training

Facility Smoking Policy:

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Age Groups Accepted:

• adults
• children / teenagers
• young adults

Gender Accepted:

• women
• men

Services for deaf:

• Services for the deaf and hard of hearing are available

Additional Spoken Languages:

• Spanish