Howard Brown Health Center

Howard Brown Health Center

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
• Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
• Substance use disorder education
• HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Payment Assistance Available

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

Type of Care

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

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients who have experienced trauma

Ancillary Services

• Domestic violence services, including family or partner
• Integrated primary care services
• Early intervention for HIV
• Case management service
• Mental health services

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere
• This facility administers/prescribes medication for alcohol use disorder

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

• Regular outpatient treatment
• Outpatient
• Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment

License/Certification/Accreditation

• Federally Qualified Health Center
• State Substance use treatment agency

Gender Accepted

• Female
• Male

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted without restriction

Transitional Services

• Discharge Planning
• Aftercare/continuing care
• Naloxone and overdose education

Type of Opioid Treatment

• Buprenorphine maintenance
• Prescribes buprenorphine
• Prescribes naltrexone
• Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere
• Relapse prevention with naltrexone

Medical Services

• Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
• Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity

External Opioid Medications Source

• No formal relationship with prescribing entity

Other Services

• Treatment for gambling disorder
• Treatment for other addiction disorder

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

• Private non-profit organization

Treatment Approaches

• Brief intervention
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Substance use disorder counseling
• Relapse prevention
• Trauma-related counseling
• Motivational interviewing
• 12-step facilitation
• Matrix Model
• Contingency management/motivational incentives
• Community reinforcement plus vouchers
• Anger management
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Testing

• Drug or alcohol urine screening
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• STD testing
• HIV testing
• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• TB screening

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Self-help groups
• Recovery coach
• Assistance with obtaining social services
• Mentoring/peer support

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted without restriction

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Private health insurance
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Cash or self-payment
• Medicaid
• Federal, or any government funding for substance use treatment programs
• Medicare

Opioid Medications used in Treatment

• Naltrexone used in Treatment
• Buprenorphine used in Treatment

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use
• Interim services for clients
• Professional interventionist/educational consultant
• Outreach to persons in the community
• Screening for substance use
• Comprehensive mental health assessment
• Complete medical history/physical exam
• Screening for mental disorders
• Comprehensive substance use assessment

Language Services

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

Pharmacotherapies

• Naltrexone (extended-release, injectable)
• Medications for pre-exposure to prophylaxis
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Medication for mental disorders
• Buprenorphine without naloxone
• Buprenorphine (extended-release, injectable)
• Naltrexone (oral)
• Buprenorphine with naloxone
• Nicotine replacement
• Medications for Hepatitis C treatment
• Medications for HIV treatment
• Disulfiram