Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)
Primary Focus of the Provider
- Mix of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Type of Care
- Substance abuse treatment
- Buprenorphine used in treatment
- Disulfiram (Antabuse®)
- Acamprosate (Campral®)
- Medications for psychiatric disorders
- Accepts clients on opioid medication
Treatment Approaches
- Substance abuse counseling approach
- Trauma-related counseling
- 12-step facilitation approach
- Brief intervention approach
- Motivational interviewing
- Anger management
- Relapse prevention
Facility Smoking Policy
- Smoking permitted in designated area
Service Setting
- Outpatient
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
Facility Operation
- Private organization
Licence / Certification / Accreditation
- State substance abuse agency
- State mental health department
- State department of health
Payment / Insurance Accepted
- Cash or self-payment
- Medicaid
- State financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
- Access to recovery (ATR) voucher
- Federal, or any government funding for substance abuse programs
Ancillary Services
- Case management
- Consumer-run (peer-support) services
- Housing services
- Nicotine replacement therapy
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation medications
- Screening for tobacco use
- Smoking/tobacco cessation counselling
- Screening for substance abuse
- Screening for mental health disorders
- Comprehensive substance abuse assessment
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Interim services for clients
- Drug or alcohol urine screening
- Discharge Planning
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Social skills development
- Assistance with obtaining social services
- Employment counseling or training
- Substance abuse education
- Transportation assistance
- Mental health services
- Individual counseling offered
- Group counseling offered
Age Groups Accepted
- Young adults
- Adults
Gender Accepted
- Female
- Male
Language Services
- Services for the deaf and hard of hearing