Anchorage Community Mental Health Services, Inc. promotes recovery and wellness by providing consumer-driven behavioral health care services to the people of Anchorage and surrounding area. We serve children who are severely emotionally disturbed and adults with severe mental illness.
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Services Offered
Family Services/Alaska Child Trauma Center - Provides multiple services to children, adolescents, and families, including providing trauma-focused services to children ages 3-12 that have experienced complex trauma (child abuse, neglect, exposure to domestic violence or sexual abuse): * Individual and family therapy * Group therapy * Play therapy * Assessment and treatment planning/coordination * Case management * Skill development * Psychoeducational services * Child and adolescent psychiatry * Home and community based services * Independent living program for transitional aged youth
Little Tykes Therapeutic Services - provides comprehensive wrap around services for children ages 2-5 and their families. Services are provided in a structured, safe, secure, nurturing environment led by mental health professionals. In Group Therapy the children learn to express and manage their emotions so that they will have healthier functioning in other areas of life including home, community, and school. Support services such as family therapy and caregiver group therapy by staff help parents to understand their children and to master relationship and communication skills to help their child develop into happy, healthy children.
Military Family Child Trauma Program - This program provides therapeutic services for children and their family who have experienced trauma and are affiliated with any branch of the military.
Adult Team - Provides a wide range of psychotherapy for adults with serious mental illness. Specialty areas include grief and loss, addictions, relationships and trauma. This team specializes in providing case management and skills development to adults who experience severe mental illness or co-existing disabilities such as mental illness and substance abuse disorders. Case Managers operate on a 'strengths' based' approach focusing on insuring basic needs are met, skill building and linking consumers to services and community supports that enhance recovery from mental illness.
Fees and Payment
This is a non profit agency.
Services Offered To: Adults Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicaid
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.
