Walden Sierra Corporation

Programs: Walden provides a full continuum of carf accredited substance abuse services. All services range from assessment, substance abuse education, general outpatient, and intensive outpatient group, individualized services, inpatient and long-term residential. Family education and continuing care are also important components offered within our substance abuse service continuum. During our most recently completed program and fiscal year, walden provided outpatient substance abuse treatment services to over 2,000 adults and adolescents. Walden has built a successful outpatient mental health therapy and psychiatric services program with clinics in charlotte hall, lexington park and waldorf. In fiscal year 2017, over 1,000 consumers accessed services in the clinic. Walden also provides crisis intervention and mental health/trauma services to victims of trauma and abuse; this set of outpatient services is offered to individuals in need without regard to the victim's ability to pay for such services. Within this scope, walden provides a range of services to child, adolescent and adult victims of domestic violence, relationship or dating violence, sexual assault, rape, and child abuse. Services are also extended to non-offending family members. Core victims services provided include hotline, crisis, advocacy, victim outreach, and therapeutic counseling services. We have a strong collaboration with our local law enforcement partners to offer lethality assessment program services, utilizing the 24-hour accessibility available via our hotline service to trained crisis workers, outreach, and on-call professional staff who can enter a dialogue with domestic violence victims and set safety planning, emergency assistance, and follow-up services in place while the police are still on the scene with the victim. In all, walden provided crisis and mental health/trauma services to nearly 800 victims of crisis, domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, dating violence, stalking, and child abuse in our most recently completed year. In a project designed to create greater access to behavioral health services, the lexington park health enterprise zone, walden has developed a partnership with medical care providers. The project integrates a behavioral health interventionist into our local hospital and outpatient clinic for uninsured/underinsured persons. This integrated care project provides services to over 600 people monthly. We also added a project that provides peer support and non-clinical interventions via recovery community centers. Beacon of hope recovery community center for adults has been operational since february 2012; the cove/dfs opened in january 2013, providing peer support for youths. The two programs serve an average of 300 guest monthly via structured, drop in, recovery coaching, special events and hosting activities.

we are seeing a significant increase in young adults with opiate addiction in need of our services. Walden's entire continuum of services is widely regarded as a leader in the state in the implementation of recovery oriented system of care (rosc) programming and activities. Walden has successfully took a local leadership role in the integration of trauma-informed care for our local rosc system; the creation of recovery support services; and in expanding access to psychiatric care to our clients including through the use of tele-psychiatry, onsite psychiatric services and ultimately achieving qualification as a community mental health clinic. Current goals include expanding our integration activities with primary care and hospital-based providers and implementing evidence-based practices in a manner that enhances our core practices (cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing) and expand joint projects to assist with criminal justice diversion such as pretrial diversion and medication assisted treatment.