Metropolitan Human Services District Algiers Behavioral Health Center

Services

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Young adults

Ancillary Services

• Case management service
• Family psychoeducation
• Suicide prevention services
• Legal advocacy
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Integrated primary care services

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents
• Seniors
• Adults
• Young Adults

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services

Treatment Approaches

• Couples/family therapy
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Group therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Other State funds
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Federal Grants
• Medicare
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Community Service Block Grants
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Pharmacotherapies

• Quetiapine
• Aripiprazole
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Clozapine
• Cariprazine
• Nicotine replacement
• Haloperidol
• Perphenazine
• Paliperidone
• Risperidone
• Fluphenazine
• Pimozide
• Thioridazine
• Lurasidone
• Trifluoperazine
• IIoperidone
• Ziprasidone
• Asenapine
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Chlorpromazine
• Droperidol
• Olanzapine
• Thiothixene
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Brexpiprazole
• Prochlorperazine
• Loxapine

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

• State government

Testing

• Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• TB screening
• Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
• Laboratory testing
• HIV testing

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Payment Assistance Available

• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Type of Care

• Mental health treatment
• Substance use treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Location

3100 General DeGaulle Drive, Suites A and B, New Orleans, LA 70114

Phone: (866) 453-5835

Website: http://www.mhsdla.org

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