Catholic Family Center is Rochester's largest family service provider, helping tens of thousands of people each year achieve independence with dignity. Catholic Family Center's passion, superior outcomes and persistent advocacy for people in need - especially the vulnerable and those facing poverty - inspires the investment and confidence of clients, funders, and donors and faith communities and influences community decisions. Catholic Family Center partners with people - especially the vulnerable and those facing poverty - to help them achieve their full human potential. A division of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rochester, CFC offers compassionate and comprehensive services to families and individuals in need across all stages of life.
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Services Offered
Battling Addiction - Empowering individuals and families affected by drug and alcohol addiction.
Outpatient Drug and Behavioral Health Treatment - Restart Outpatient Clinic offers evaluation and treatment to clients with a history of substance use problems. Restart is committed to providing the highest quality of care to all individuals seeking outpatient chemical dependency service and provides services in a holistic manner, addressing all of the life issues that impact on the recovery of our clients. The program is designed to provide treatment to individuals at any stage of recovery and readiness to enter treatment. The program uses a motivational approach to assist clients to understand the benefits of change of their current substance use, and engage them in an individually designed plan of treatment. The program offers a range of services to meet the specialized needs of our clients, targeting gender specific needs and phases of treatment from stabilization to relapse prevention. In addition to treatment, the program also provides connection to essential case management services for clients with needs for other community supports such as housing, child care, medical services, etc.
Drug Prevention and Services - Home and Community Based Services are a group of programs designed to expand access to person-centered, trauma informed support and training services. These services are Recovery-oriented, supporting an integrated care plan that addresses physical and behavioral health needs through evidence-based and data-driven techniques that can build stability and promote hope, encouraging each person on their individual path to recovery.
Empowering the Vulnerable - With your help, we are Empowering the Vulnerable. With essentials like shelter, food and clothing. And then helping them move forward with drug treatment and job training. We address our clients' emergency needs by offering comprehensive services to deal with the individual or family's immediate crisis as well as to offer services and resources to help them to gain and maintain self-sufficiency.
Pregnancy Counseling - CFC's Pregnancy Counseling Program supports expectant parents of all ages in solving concerns related to pregnancy and future plans. Parents receive confidential support at a vulnerable time in their life, as well as information about parenting and adoption options.
Sexual Abuse Crisis Intervention - The Sexual Abuse Crisis Intervention Program is an intensive, 10-12 week home-based counseling program for families where a child up to age 18 has disclosed sex abuse or is showing sexualized behavior.
Mental Health Clinic - The Mental Health Clinic provides evaluation, individual psychotherapy and group sessions, and medication treatment for individuals struggling with Mental Health issues.
* Mental Health Evaluations * Psychotherapy * Medication Management * Tele-psychiatry evaluations* and medication management services * Group Sessions are also available to provide an additional opportunity for learning new coping skills, developing increased self-awareness, expanding communication and interpersonal skills, and creating a strong and healthy support system: * Anger Management Groups * Anxiety Treatment Groups/Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) * Seeking Safety Groups for Trauma Survivors * Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Fees and Payment
We primarily utilizes Medicaid, Medicare, Family Health Plus, other private health insurance coverage and if ineligible for any other insurance has the option to allow for sliding fee scale payment. Benefit assistance is provided by the program for clients who need to obtain resources. We are also a nonprofit agency.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples 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.