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Intensive Outpatient Program

This co-occurring treatment focuses on substance use and mental health disorders for adults  and includes recovery skills, emotional health, and life skills. Our program utilizes Living in Balance, an evidenced-based curriculum created by Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. This program draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and experiential interventions to help guide patients to sustained recovery.

Intensive Outpatient Program Features

  • Occupational therapy
  • Medication assisted treatment (MAT)
  • Recovery skills such as harm reduction, identifying triggers and utilizing healthy coping skills to reduce or avoid substance use
  • Emotional health support, including managing mental health symptoms, coping with stress in a healthier way instead of turning to substances, individual therapy to explore triggers for substance use, such as trauma or mental health symptoms or relationship problems
  • Life skills such as occupational therapy, developing a daily routine and structure, skills for employment, budgeting, maintaining housing, and finding community resources

Intensive Outpatient Program Details

  • Three group sessions per week
    • Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  • One individual therapy session per week
  • 2-3 months average length of treatment
  • Level 2.1 treatment
  • Location: CHI Health Psychiatric Associates at Lasting Hope

Your provider can make a referral by calling (402) 717-5550 and/or faxing your chemical dependency evaluation to (402) 717-5792. For more information, please call (402) 717-5550 or the CHI Health behavioral care information and referral line at (402) 717-HOPE.