Intensive Outpatient is a day and/or nighttime treatment program that employs an integrated and individualized schedule of recognized substance abuse/mental health treatment modalities. Intensive Outpatient is a treatment approach developed as an alternative to inpatient treatment. It includes the major psychiatric evaluation and treatment modalities (both psychosocial and biological) that are usually found in a comprehensive inpatient program. It is designed for voluntary patients with mental health and/or substance abuse problems who require intensive and multidisciplinary treatment that is a flexible, less costly and less restrictive form of treatment. Intensive Outpatient can be utilized by individuals who are mentally or emotionally impaired, but who can be maintained in the community at least part of each day, and present little risk of imminent danger to themselves or others. The purpose of the Intensive Outpatient Program is to provide a transition or "bridge" between treatment in the hospital and the resuming of community or social activities. The goals of the Intensive Outpatient programs are to provide psychiatric and/or substance abuse treatment to individuals in a less restrictive setting than an inpatient unit. The benefits of this type of care include: Lessening the disruption of social, family, and community ties; allowing the patient to test new skills in a more neutral environment than an inpatient hospital setting; providing treatment milieu that provides flexibility in the numbers of treatment days per week, thus allowing a patient to pursue other activities, such as shortening of the inpatient stay, or preventing the need for full hospitalization. The Intensive Outpatient Program will provide: 1. Resolution or stabilization of short- term Program conditions, usually within two (2) to eight (8) weeks. 2. Rehabilitation of patients with social or vocational deficits related to their psychiatric and/or substance abuse illness with the goal of enhancing productivity in vocational or other work related activities. 3. Control of symptoms and maintenance of a functional level to avoid further deterioration or hospitalization. 4. Diagnosis of persons for whom an extended or direct observation is necessary to identify problem areas, monitor medications, and formulate a treatment plan. 5. Stress reduction and a mobilization of the patient's own strengths and resources. 6. Education geared toward assisting the patient to cope more effectively with future crisis. 7. Positive experience geared toward enhancing self-esteem and promoting effective patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Services Offered The center will provide at least three (3) hours of programming during daytime and evening hours, three times weekly. Generally, operating hours are from 9:00 a.m. to noon and 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, except for approved holidays that fall on a weekday. There is no programming on those holidays.

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