Desert Senita Community Health Center

Desert Senita Community Health Center

Services:
Assessment/Pre-treatment
• Screening for tobacco use

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Young adults
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Pharmacotherapies

• Nicotine replacement
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Type of Care

• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment
• Substance use treatment

Ancillary Services

• Case management service
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Family psychoeducation
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Integrated primary care services
• Suicide prevention services
• Illness management and recovery
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Private health insurance
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• IHS/Tribal/Urban (ITU) funds
• Medicare
• Other State funds
• Cash or self-payment
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents
• Young Adults
• Seniors
• Adults

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

License/Certification/Accreditation

• Federally Qualified Health Center

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Group therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Activity therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Couples/family therapy

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Private non-profit organization

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Language Services

• Spanish
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing