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Outpatient Treatment (at Solutions Family Resource Center)

Outpatient treatment is a 6-9 month program available to men, women, and their families living in the Compton and South Los Angeles communities.  Participants also include Mini House Residential Treatment clients, University Mini House Transitional Living clients and alumni as well as men and women referred by mental health, employment assistant programs, court mandates, Department of Public Social Services, and Department of Children and Family Services. 

This program includes an outreach component that reaches into the community to promote prevention, impart education, and enact intervention.  Outreach also serves as an avenue that provides additional resources to our client base such as mental health services, where secondary diagnosis of mental and medical illness is case managed in a triage with providers who specialize in these services within the community. 

Other areas addressed in outpatient treatment that lie beyond the primary diagnosis of substance abuse include social barriers such as family reunification, health care and limited education.

Outpatient clients are:

• Transfers from Bus No. 1 (Mini House Residential Clients)
• Families of Mini House Residential Clients
• Female or male clients and their families
• Mental Health Referrals
• Employment Assistant Program Referrals
• Court Referrals
• DPSS Referrals
• DCFS Referrals

Outpatient treatment consists of four phases:

Crisis intervention:  During the first 30 days, clients are assisted with meeting basic needs such as food shelter, clothing, and verification of the clients' compliance with court mandates for treatment.

Assessment (ASI)
Placement

• Residential
• Outpatient
• Aftercare

Referrals

• Medical (Health screenings such as HIV/AIDS and TB)
• Mental Health
• Social Services (DPSS, DCFS, etc.)
• Shelters, clothing, and food
• Legal

Transportation

Treatment:  Once the client's immediate needs have been stabilized, the client can begin to establish goals that will support their success in abstaining from drug and alcohol use.  A treatment plan is developed to address these areas and is reinforced through individual and group counseling sessions offered by experienced staff.

Continue Crisis Intervention Individual Counseling Sessions Goal Setting Tracking Progress Case Conferencing Family Dynamics Exploring Patterns of Behavior

Group Sessions Relapse Prevention Open Recovery Discussion Gender Specific Recovery Women's Awareness and Education Applied Life Skills 1 - literacy training -  Reading -  Writing -  Math -  Envisioning Parenting Twelve Step Meetings

Transition:  As clients enter their second 90-120 days of treatment, they are now ready to incorporate additional goals with their treatment goals.  Life skills like financial and household management are an important component of this phase as clients prepare to function within a social construct.  Social re-entry is case managed by our staff to assist clients in securing government income support, establishing bank accounts, and securing stable housing.

Continuation of Treatment Case Management Goal Setting -  Education -  Family Reunification -  Employment Applied Life Skills 2 - lifestyle training Checkbook Balancing/Writing Time Management Shopping Budgeting

Social Re-entry Establishing bank account, credit, insurance Managing social systems -  General Relief -  CAL Works -  Children's Services Secure Permanent Housing

Vocational rehabilitation:  Treatment continues while clients are encouraged to establish new priorities around career planning, i.e. education and employment.  Clients have the opportunity to begin this process through in-house programs such as GED prep courses and career planning offered through a partnership with the West Los Angeles College TRIO Educational Opportunity Center and Talent Search program.

Continuation of Treatment Continuation of Transition Phase Career Planning Education -  Certificate Programs ּ  Nursing ּ  Cosmetology ּ  Construction -  GED -  Continuing Education ּ  Associate Degree ּ  Bachelors Degree

Career Planning (cont.) Employment Preparation -  Application completion -  Resume writing -  Interviewing techniques -  Dress for success