Oaklawn provides a full range of mental health and addiction services for children, adolescents and adults in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties.
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Services Offered
Adult Services
Intensive outpatient care * Intensive Illness Management and Recovery: IMR is for individuals with a psychiatric diagnosis who may be newly diagnosed, have experienced a severe episode or are experiencing difficulty with daily living.
* Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment: A 14-week intensive program for those experiencing a psychiatric disorder and substance use. This program combines individual therapy and group and family sessions (two to four sessions per week), with continuing care sessions once per week for several months.
* Addictions Intensive Outpatient Program: An eight week program with three sessions a week and continuing care support for one session a week for several months.
Outpatient services * Individual Counseling: Oaklawn offers individual counseling opportunities with a therapist on a schedule that fits your needs.
* Groups: Oaklawn offers several groups to support those with serious and chronic mental illness. Groups combine education, treatment, and life skills training. Dual diagnosis groups are held for people who have both a serious mental illness and addictions.
Psychiatric services Our psychiatric services team includes psychiatrists, nurse practitioners and psychiatric nurses who oversee medical treatment. These Services Offered:Evaluations Prescribing medications Answering questions about medications, including side effects Helping with medication refills and medication samples Helping with the Patient Assistance Program for medications
Addiction Services Oaklawn offers specialized addiction treatment programs for adolescents and adults in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties. Our programs range from traditional to complex, including those who are addicted to more than one substance, people who have failed in other programs or people who are also facing a mental illness.
Child and Adolescent Services
Outpatient programs Oaklawn has the region's largest network of professional staff specializing in care for youth. We offer the following outpatient Services Offered:* Individual, group and family therapy, using leading evidence-based practices, such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and more. * Care facilitation and skills training * Wraparound services * Medication management * Assessments * Evaluations Psychiatric services Our psychiatric services team includes psychiatrists, nurse practitioners and psychiatric nurses who oversee medical treatment.
Substance use treatment The New Hope Adolescent program is a 28-week intensive substance use treatment program for adolescents with a moderate to severe substance use disorder. Participants learn about substance use, how it affects families and individuals and skills for recovery.
Services for Seriously Mentally Ill Adults
Services include * Skills training to help clients improve daily living skills and thrive in their communities
* Case management to provide a personal advocate and assistance in developing a recovery plan, including learning how to access services, improve life skills and live successfully in the community
* Outpatient treatment, including individual counseling, group support and dual diagnosis group support for those who face a serious mental illness and an addiction.
Fees and Payment
Your ability to pay does not affect your ability to receive services at Oaklawn. Our Access Center specialists will work with you, and Oaklawn may even be able to help you apply for coverage, if eligible.
This is a nonprofit organization.
Services Offered To: Adults Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Medicare 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.