The Guidance Center of Westchester offers essential and lasting support to those in our communities challenged by mental illness, substance abuse, poverty, and homelessness. We empower our participants to become active members of their community through education, treatment, housing, and rehabilitative and vocational services.
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Services Offered
Mental health services help children, teens, and adults overcome challenges related to issues such as anxiety, depression, attention deficit and hyperactivity, trauma, grief, and school performance. With the support of our team of licensed psychotherapist and psychiatry staff, participants set and achieve goals to enable successful adjustments to difficult situations, overcome grief and loss, improve their relationships with others, and learn skills to manage symptoms of mental illness.
School-based clinics enable students to receive the counseling they need in the familiar setting of their school. We help students address mental health needs so that they can improve functioning in school, at home, socially, and in life. Children and adolescents who are not in one of our partner schools can receive services at one of our mental health clinics in New Rochelle or Mount Vernon.
Supported education advocates for and provides counseling and support services to Westchester college students who have mental illness. Supported education helps ensure that the students can remain in college and achieve success throughout the course of their academic career.
SUBSTANCE USE SERVICES
Our substance use treatment programs help people who are impacted by their personal or a family member's addiction to improve the quality of their lives and achieve personal goals for recovery.
Sunrise is an outpatient clinic that implements evidence-based interventions to help participants achieve recovery from alcohol or other controlled substances. Sunrise is appropriate for anyone over the age of 18 who is living with addiction.
The Hub is specifically designed to help adolescents and young adults (ages 12-21) make sound and thoughtful decisions as they restore balance to their lives and recover from substance use. The Hub is a safe and supportive environment offering different levels of outpatient substance use treatment.
METRO - Chemical Dependency Treatment Center focuses on recovery from opiate-based addiction (including addiction to heroin and prescription pain medications). This program uses medication assisted treatment (methadone). METRO provides individual and group counseling, community-based referrals, and vocational and job assistance. METRO participants who also require mental health services can take part in our co-occurring disorder clinic (CODC). METRO is for people 18 and old. PROS: PERSONALIZED RECOVERY-ORIENTED SERVICES
PROS is a comprehensive rehabilitative program for adults who have serious mental illness. The goal is to help participants achieve personal levels of satisfaction for employment, education, housing, relationships, and community involvement. PROS is for people who are 18 years and older. Recovery counselors work with participants to develop an individual recovery plan that aligns with the individual's life goals and objectives. Participants choose which of the 70+ weekly PROS courses are best suited to help them achieve their plan.
Fees and Payment
This is a 501(c) (3) organization.
Services Offered To: Adults Teens Children
Payment: Sliding Scale 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.