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Causes: Children & Youth, Community Mental Health Centers, Health, Health Care, Mental Health, Youth Development Programs
Mission: To provide mental health and addiction services that touch, teach and heal. Vision: where help for life's challenges is openly sought and compassionately given.
Programs: Integrated care solutions: samaritan behavioral healths youth and adult outpatient services offer the following to adults, adolescents, and children living in montgomery county: behavioral health assessments to determine the nature and extent of mental health problems/concerns; recommendations regarding services that address presenting problems/symptoms; an individualized service plan with therapeutic goals developed in collaboration with the patient/family; individual and family counseling; referral to psychiatric services if it appears that medication may be beneficial; ongoing psychiatric medication management, case management (continued in schedule o)
crisiscare: samaritan behavioral healths crisiscare program offers the following services to any adult, adolescent or child regardless of their ability to pay: 1) hotline 24-hour suicide prevention and crisis counseling telephone line, 2) warmline 24-hour supportive telephone counseling service, 3) screening & triage evaluation of crisis needs with follow-up recommendations for service, 4) emergency walk-ins face-to-face crisis intervention, 5) pre-hospital screening health officers evaluate whether a person needs to be hospitalized due to life threatening circumstances, 6) mobile crisis services - crisis intervention(continued in schedule o)
substance abuse: samaritan behavioral healths substance abuse services offer the following to any adult living in montgomery county: medication assisted treatment (mat) for opioid addiction using buprenorphine/naloxone (suboxone) neltrexone (vivitrol); all mat services require participation in group and individual counseling; individual, group, and family counseling, and case management; services to treat abuse and addiction to alcohol, cocaine, barbiturates, marijuana, heroin, and other addictive substances; project dawn training in the use and distribution of naloxone (narcan) kits, combined substance abuse and mental health counseling. During 2016, 1,656 patients were served.