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Harris Ctr for Mental Health and IDD — Northwest Clinic

Services reported to SAMHSA (2025)

This is what the program told SAMHSA in its 2025 national survey. It may have changed; confirm by phone.

Type of Care

  • Substance use treatment
  • Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children

Service Setting

  • Outpatient
  • Regular outpatient treatment

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Payment Assistance Available

  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Special Programs/Groups Offered

  • Veterans
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma

Language Services

  • Spanish

Pharmacotherapies

  • Medication for mental disorders

Age Groups Accepted

  • Young Adults
  • Adults

External Opioid Medications Source

  • No formal relationship with prescribing entity

Type of Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

  • Accepts clients using medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder but prescribed elsewhere

External Source of Medications Used for Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment

  • In-network prescribing entity
  • No formal relationship with prescribing entity

Type of Opioid Treatment

  • Accepts clients using MAT but prescribed elsewhere

Treatment Approaches

  • Anger management
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Contingency management/motivational incentives
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Relapse prevention
  • Substance use disorder counseling
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Trauma-related counseling

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

  • State government

License/Certification/Accreditation

  • State mental health department
  • Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)

Assessment/Pre-treatment

  • Comprehensive mental health assessment
  • Comprehensive substance use assessment
  • Interim services for clients
  • Complete medical history/physical exam
  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Screening for substance use
  • Screening for mental disorders

Testing

  • Drug or alcohol urine screening
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Transitional Services

  • Discharge Planning

Recovery Support Services

  • Housing services
  • Assistance with obtaining social services
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Employment counseling or training

Education and Counseling Services

  • Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
  • Substance use disorder education
  • Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
  • Individual counseling

Medical Services

  • Hepatitis A (HAV) vaccination
  • Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination

Facility Smoking Policy

  • Smoking not permitted

Sex Accepted

  • Female
  • Male

Facility Vaping Policy

  • Vaping not permitted

Ancillary Services

  • Case management service
  • Mental health services
  • Social skills development
  • Transportation assistance
  • Integrated primary care services
  • Suicide prevention services
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