The Orchard Place - Child Guidance Center in downtown Des Moines has provided child and adolescent mental health services in Central Iowa for more than 75 years.
The Child Guidance Center is a federally accredited community mental health center for children and serves as a safety net service provider for children battling mental health disorders in Central Iowa.
Our Children's Mental Health Services Include:
Direct Clinical Services offers a wide variety of mental health services in the Child Guidance Center clinical setting, including therapy, psychological assessments and testing, psychiatric assessments, and medication management.
Mental Health Consultation/Education is the Child Guidance Center's effort to provide specialized, child mental health education and assistance to parents, educators and child care professionals.
School-Based Mental Health Services are provided in 83 schools across 11 school districts, allowing children and families easier access to therapy and enabling therapists to closely collaborate with the child's educational team.
Trauma-Informed Care Project promotes awareness of the impact of trauma on children and educates the community and community stakeholders in trauma-informed care practices.
Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) serves 21 counties in Central Iowa and helps families identify and select quality child care. CCR&R offers consultation, technical assistance and training to both home and center based child care programs on child development, positive behavior intervention support and other training topics to help children get a healthy start in child care environments.
Senin, 31 Juli 2017
Dateline, Golden Valley: Young Couple IN DRUG Recovery
As told by David Dingman
David Dingman is the Executive Director for Golden Valley Treatment Services.
I have spent my career in the field of behavioral health, primarily in addiction treatment. Many folks see their friends, family members and neighbors who struggle with this disease. There are options to improve outcomes.
As recently reported:“Last year, 153 people in Hennepin County died of opioid-related deaths, compared with 110 in 2015 — a 39 percent increase, according to updated numbers released Friday by the Sheriff’s Office.”
Our population seeks treatment on the journey to recovery. This disease impacts the older and young, male and female and all ethnic groups. Meet James and Anne, two individuals who are in treatment.
James and Anne are a young couple. They travel 45 minutes seven days per week to Golden Valley Treatment Services. James is a welder and Anne would like to become a nurse. They are both in their early 20’s. They work together to remain healthy and be productive members of our community.
James was 13 when he started drinking and smoking weed. He was 18 when he started doing pills. He was on a course consistent with many other young people. As time progressed things got worse.
He found himself in jail and was court ordered to go to an outpatient program. This was a wake-up call.
Anne’s experience started out when she was about ten. Her mom gave her Percocet so she would not hear her coughing. She later began to take more pills.
“I went to a sober school. I made them think that I didn’t take any pills. After high school my grandpa died and that really set off my addiction with pills.”
The young couple, together, realized that they had an opportunity for a healthier life.
“We talked about going to methadone clinic and trying to get sober. I got in trouble again for drinking. I heard about Golden Valley Treatment Services from my friend. I could not stop getting high after I got out of jail. Ever since I started going there I got sober,” James said.
Anne knew that they could lead a healthier life:
“We talked about the methadone program. Once James started it was a huge transformation for him. I was tired of the drugs.
20 days later I decided that it was time for me to quit”
Their program is a daily commitment:
They travel to the clinic daily. Once a week they meet with their counselors. They work on values and goals. They will soon start group therapy. They are examples of what it takes. It is a combination of viable treatment options, caring counselors and folks who are committed to their own health and wellness. They are unique as they work their programs together.
“We keep each other going.
“I thought that I could not be happy sober. I am much happier now. People have noticed and say you seem 100 percent happier now. I go out and do more things now. My money is not only going to pills. I actually have things that I like now.”
Our program is in an outpatient setting in Golden Valley. It includes medication assisted treatment (MAT), counseling and group therapy. We are able to work closely with individuals as they recover. Importantly, our full continuum of care means that people can enter programs on a schedule and in an environment that works with their life – be it outpatient, residential or transitional living. (in other locations)
Like us, there are others who provide options in this region. I ask that we all work together to improve statistics and healthy lives for people like James and Anne. Where there is treatment there is hope. Let’s make 2017 a better year and save more lives together.
David Dingman is the Executive Director for Golden Valley Treatment Services.
I have spent my career in the field of behavioral health, primarily in addiction treatment. Many folks see their friends, family members and neighbors who struggle with this disease. There are options to improve outcomes.
As recently reported:“Last year, 153 people in Hennepin County died of opioid-related deaths, compared with 110 in 2015 — a 39 percent increase, according to updated numbers released Friday by the Sheriff’s Office.”
Our population seeks treatment on the journey to recovery. This disease impacts the older and young, male and female and all ethnic groups. Meet James and Anne, two individuals who are in treatment.
James and Anne are a young couple. They travel 45 minutes seven days per week to Golden Valley Treatment Services. James is a welder and Anne would like to become a nurse. They are both in their early 20’s. They work together to remain healthy and be productive members of our community.
James was 13 when he started drinking and smoking weed. He was 18 when he started doing pills. He was on a course consistent with many other young people. As time progressed things got worse.
He found himself in jail and was court ordered to go to an outpatient program. This was a wake-up call.
Anne’s experience started out when she was about ten. Her mom gave her Percocet so she would not hear her coughing. She later began to take more pills.
“I went to a sober school. I made them think that I didn’t take any pills. After high school my grandpa died and that really set off my addiction with pills.”
The young couple, together, realized that they had an opportunity for a healthier life.
“We talked about going to methadone clinic and trying to get sober. I got in trouble again for drinking. I heard about Golden Valley Treatment Services from my friend. I could not stop getting high after I got out of jail. Ever since I started going there I got sober,” James said.
Anne knew that they could lead a healthier life:
“We talked about the methadone program. Once James started it was a huge transformation for him. I was tired of the drugs.
20 days later I decided that it was time for me to quit”
Their program is a daily commitment:
They travel to the clinic daily. Once a week they meet with their counselors. They work on values and goals. They will soon start group therapy. They are examples of what it takes. It is a combination of viable treatment options, caring counselors and folks who are committed to their own health and wellness. They are unique as they work their programs together.
“We keep each other going.
“I thought that I could not be happy sober. I am much happier now. People have noticed and say you seem 100 percent happier now. I go out and do more things now. My money is not only going to pills. I actually have things that I like now.”
Our program is in an outpatient setting in Golden Valley. It includes medication assisted treatment (MAT), counseling and group therapy. We are able to work closely with individuals as they recover. Importantly, our full continuum of care means that people can enter programs on a schedule and in an environment that works with their life – be it outpatient, residential or transitional living. (in other locations)
Like us, there are others who provide options in this region. I ask that we all work together to improve statistics and healthy lives for people like James and Anne. Where there is treatment there is hope. Let’s make 2017 a better year and save more lives together.
Orchard Place Campus - Residential Treatment Center
Orchard Place's residential treatment program is a highly-respected,
intensive psychiatric residential treatment center. Children in the
residential program come to Orchard Place from every county in Iowa and
have typically had a number of psychiatric hospitalizations and other
treatment experiences. They are in need of intensive mental health
services, close medical monitoring, and a highly-structured and safe
setting.
Orchard Place Campus seeks to meet all of our young clients' needs with individualized treatment and services through a multidisciplinary approach to psychological care. This collaborative effort helps children and teens with serious psychological and mental health illnesses reclaim their lives, and also works with their families to help reintegrate these children into their home communities.
Orchard Place Campus seeks to meet all of our young clients' needs with individualized treatment and services through a multidisciplinary approach to psychological care. This collaborative effort helps children and teens with serious psychological and mental health illnesses reclaim their lives, and also works with their families to help reintegrate these children into their home communities.
Our multi-disciplinary team includes:
- Master's level, licensed therapists
- Agency-trained bachelor-level milieu treatment counselors
- Youth and child psychologist
- Youth and child psychiatrists
- Pediatrician
- 24-hour-a-day nursing staff
- Recreational therapist
- Dietitian
- A campus-based educational program with Des Moines Public School teaching staff
Our goals are to:
- Improve each child's psychological and emotional health and academic functioning
- Return the child to the community
- Reunite the child with the parent whenever possible
Treatment components include:
- Psychiatric evaluations and services
- Psychological assessments
- Individual child therapy
- Family therapy
- Group therapy
- Education services
- Tutoring and mentoring
- Recreational therapy
- 24-hour nursing care pediatric exams and consultation
- Dietary consultation
- Drug and alcohol assessments and services
Drug treatment center helping thousands
JWAYYA,
Lebanon: Nestled in the cool mountains of Jwayya, an addiction center
provides rehabilitation and medical treatment for drug addicts, a rare
thing in a society that has longed criminalized drug use. “Patients come
here willingly, we do not coordinate with police stations and we cannot
force an addict into treatment,” Fadi Atrash, manager of the Jwayya
Welfare Hospital, told The Daily Star, going on to explain the two
stages of the center’s treatment process.
During the first stage, which can last anywhere between 15 days and an entire month, the patient spends their time in the hospital and receives therapy while being closely monitored so they do not relapse.
The patient is then transferred to a specialized rehabilitation center in Keyfoun, Mount Lebanon.
“There is a common misconception that an addict is a criminal,” Atrash said. “But through [working] in this center, which has been treating addicts for six years, we see that an addict is someone that has been struck with a calamity.”
The center treats no fewer than 5,000 patients a year. Most come from Beirut and its suburbs, and those aged between 18 and 35 constitute at least 90 percent of patients. They come from all walks of life and include the poor, the well-off, college students, unemployed youth and even entire families. The hospital treats people of several nationalities, including Iraqis, Syrians, Palestinians, and even has a number of Lebanese-Swiss patients.
Throughout the year, the hospital’s 16 beds are never empty and the center is looking to expand by adding an extra floor. The staff has received specialist addiction-treatment training, having undergone years of workshops and educational courses.
“They are not allowed to communicate with the patients outside of the hospital,” Atrash said. “But when they are in here, it is as if we are all one big family.”
It is A.Sh.’s second time at the hospital, after relapsing. Now 26, he said he has been doing drugs since he was 13 years old.
“At 13, I used to wake up at night and could not sleep ... they guys were drinking [codeine] cough medicine. I asked them what it felt like and they told me it relaxes you and you feel good, so I drank it,” he said. “I would drink more and more, I then moved to the Tramal [painkiller Tramadol] and then to heroin.”
He blames his relapse in 2014 on his environment. “Without even feeling it, I went back to abusing drugs, and from then it was another two years of addiction,” he told The Daily Star. “I took the decision and came here again.”
S.M. is being treated in the center for the first time. He curses drug dealers and the Lebanese government for being so lenient on them.
“I don’t like being referred to as an addict, but someone who has been stricken with the calamity of addiction,” he told The Daily Star.
He said that he sold everything in his home, “even the gas.”
“I swear that I want to change, and once I have cleaned up my blood I want to start giving it to those in need,” he added.
Within one of the center’s pool halls A.S, a recovering addict, called on his friends to “take the bold step” and submit to treatment.
“Doing drugs takes you to another world, it is as if you are riding a horse and everyone is beneath you,” he told The Daily Star. “But then you wake up and fall into a black hole and find out that you are worthless scum. Leave it, you still have time and treatment is easy ... it brings back your parents love, the same parents that you would have killed for a hit.”
During the first stage, which can last anywhere between 15 days and an entire month, the patient spends their time in the hospital and receives therapy while being closely monitored so they do not relapse.
The patient is then transferred to a specialized rehabilitation center in Keyfoun, Mount Lebanon.
“There is a common misconception that an addict is a criminal,” Atrash said. “But through [working] in this center, which has been treating addicts for six years, we see that an addict is someone that has been struck with a calamity.”
The center treats no fewer than 5,000 patients a year. Most come from Beirut and its suburbs, and those aged between 18 and 35 constitute at least 90 percent of patients. They come from all walks of life and include the poor, the well-off, college students, unemployed youth and even entire families. The hospital treats people of several nationalities, including Iraqis, Syrians, Palestinians, and even has a number of Lebanese-Swiss patients.
Throughout the year, the hospital’s 16 beds are never empty and the center is looking to expand by adding an extra floor. The staff has received specialist addiction-treatment training, having undergone years of workshops and educational courses.
“They are not allowed to communicate with the patients outside of the hospital,” Atrash said. “But when they are in here, it is as if we are all one big family.”
It is A.Sh.’s second time at the hospital, after relapsing. Now 26, he said he has been doing drugs since he was 13 years old.
“At 13, I used to wake up at night and could not sleep ... they guys were drinking [codeine] cough medicine. I asked them what it felt like and they told me it relaxes you and you feel good, so I drank it,” he said. “I would drink more and more, I then moved to the Tramal [painkiller Tramadol] and then to heroin.”
He blames his relapse in 2014 on his environment. “Without even feeling it, I went back to abusing drugs, and from then it was another two years of addiction,” he told The Daily Star. “I took the decision and came here again.”
S.M. is being treated in the center for the first time. He curses drug dealers and the Lebanese government for being so lenient on them.
“I don’t like being referred to as an addict, but someone who has been stricken with the calamity of addiction,” he told The Daily Star.
He said that he sold everything in his home, “even the gas.”
“I swear that I want to change, and once I have cleaned up my blood I want to start giving it to those in need,” he added.
Within one of the center’s pool halls A.S, a recovering addict, called on his friends to “take the bold step” and submit to treatment.
“Doing drugs takes you to another world, it is as if you are riding a horse and everyone is beneath you,” he told The Daily Star. “But then you wake up and fall into a black hole and find out that you are worthless scum. Leave it, you still have time and treatment is easy ... it brings back your parents love, the same parents that you would have killed for a hit.”
Ground broken on expanded treatment center in Manchester
MANCHESTER — City and state leaders
marked a milestone in combating the opioid, heroin and fentanyl crisis
with the ground-breaking Tuesday of an expanded treatment center and new
recovery housing.
The Families in Transition’s Family Willows Substance Use Treatment
Center and Recovery Housing, located in the old Hoitt’s Furniture
building on Wilson Street, is focused on one at-risk population: women,
and mothers with children.It will provide treatment for an estimated 400 women annually, said Dick Anagnost, a businessman who is chairman of the Families in Transition board of directors.
Family Willows, which is part of the Manchester Recovery and Treatment Center, will feature recovery housing on the second and third floors of the building. There is a Hope for New Hampshire Recovery space now on the first floor, and speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony highlighted the importance of various agencies, offices, and nonprofits working together to combat the public health crisis.
“When we talk about this epidemic, we’ve got to fight it from all sides of the battle, because there’s no question that mothers today are having children that are addicted,” said Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas. “We have got to find ways to give them shelter, give them support.”
Gov. Chris Sununu, R-Newfields, said the response is a work in progress, but one that’s seen significant progress over the past three or four years. He said U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, the former governor, deserved credit for taking steps with the Legislature to improve the state’s response.
Sununu continues the fight, having submitted Friday an application for $6.25 million in federal funding over two years, authorized by the 21st Century Cures Act, to fight opioid abuse in the state.
The funding includes support for peer recovery services, a new re-entry care coordinator with the state Department of Corrections to help women with access to treatment, resources for medication like Naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses, and funding for targeted prevention services for early childhood and school-aged children, whose parents or caregivers have substance use disorder.
“We’re not going to win this overnight, but bit by bit, we are turning this around in the state,” Sununu said at the Family Willows center.
Maureen Beauregard, president and founder of Families in Transition, said the recovery housing and expanded substance use treatment center is about a $3.8 million project. Families in Transition is moving from its location at South Beech Street to the Wilson Street site, which is on the corner of Valley Street.
The expansion project is supported in part by a law last year to support the governor’s commission on alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment and recovery, which included up to $2 million to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority, with the money directed to housing projects for people with substance abuse disorders.
Housing Benefits, an independent nonprofit focused on expanding affordable housing in the state, is the property owner.
Funding for the project comes from New Hampshire Housing, the city of Manchester, Cogswell Benevolent Trust, Community Development Finance Authority, Brady Sullivan Properties, Anagnost Companies, Grappone Automotive Group, Merchants Fleet Management, Eastern Bank, and Kalwall Corporation.
Businessman Arthur Sullivan, of Brady Sullivan Properties, said substance abuse has been a troubling issue for some time. At the ceremony, he recalled that a long-time employee died from a drug overdose not long ago.
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