Providing hope and healing for substance abuse

We offer a comprehensive array of services designed to help you and your family begin the journey of recovery from chemical dependency and mental illness. Services are individualized to meet your unique needs, and encourage family involvement. We focus and build on the strengths and resilience of you, your family and the community.

All of our services begin with a confidential assessment designed to explore and understand the nature of your concerns and recommend the best course of treatment. Culturally informed and sensitive practice is at the core of all of our services. Recognizing and valuing differences is crucial to providing services that ensure the success of all people.

Our adult and adolescent programs and services include:

• The intensive outpatient program is designed to provide an intense level of care that successfully interrupts the addictive process and introduces you to recovery. A morning and evening track is offered to provide maximum access.

• Less intensive group and individual counseling services

• Gender-specific problem focus groups

• Services for women are provided by therapists with extensive experience in addressing the needs and issues faced by women in treatment and recovery

• Services for those new to treatment and recovery are ultimately rewarding but can be challenging and frightening in the beginning. The early recovery groups allow you to explore your substance use in a non-threatening and supportive environment.

• Adolescent services include a comprehensive assessment that encourages the participation of the adolescent's parent or caregiver. Education groups provide information about substance use and recovery for young people. Additional separate groups for boys and girls allow them to explore their specific needs and the challenges they face.

• Other groups and services include relapse prevention groups, groups for court-involved individuals including OWI, ongoing recovery groups, urine drug screens and the coordination of care not provided by the UW Health Behavioral Health and Recovery Clinic

• After-care services for patients who have completed primary treatment or a higher level of care

• Phone: (608) 282-8270

• Location: 1102 S. Park St., Madison

• Providing a confidential supportive environment for teens and families to explore concerns

• Intervening before concerns or problems become unmanageable

• Offering teens information about alcohol and drugs

• Providing tools for teens to make healthy decisions

• Helping build motivation for change when change is needed

• Connecting teens and families with appropriate community resources
  

Assessments take place over four meetings, about once a week for an hour. Parents attend the first and final sessions with their teen. The purpose of the assessment is to:

• Identify strengths (what is going well) and risks (areas of concern)

• Determine the level of current or past alcohol or drug involvement

• Identify any related problems

We explore family relationships, peer influences, academic issues, and mental health concerns. When appropriate, recommendations for further services such as counseling or treatment are discussed with the teen and family.

Our outcome studies consistently show that both teens and their parents report a high level of satisfaction with our services. Nine out of 10 teens who start an Behavioral Health Youth and Family assessment successfully complete the process. At three-month outcome follow-up, teens reported significant reductions in alcohol and drug use and related problems, as well as increased rates of abstinence.

Parents, teachers, physicians - anyone with questions or concerns about a teenager's alcohol or drug use - can take the first step by calling Behavioral Health Youth and Family. We provide assessments for Dane County adolescents up to age 18, and youth who are still in high school or an HSED/GED program up to age 21.