Lake Whatcom Center Agate Heights ALF

Lake Whatcom Center Agate Heights ALF

Services:
Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• Community Service Block Grants
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Other State funds
• County or local government funds
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Cash or self-payment
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

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

• Outpatient
• Residential/24-hour residential

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

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Seniors or older adults
• Veterans
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons with eating disorders
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
• Active duty military
• Members of military families
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Pharmacotherapies

• Nicotine replacement
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Treatment Approaches

• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Activity therapy
• Group therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

Facility Type

• Residential treatment center (RTC) for adults

Testing

• STD testing
• HIV testing
• TB screening
• Laboratory testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Ancillary Services

• Legal advocacy
• Supported employment
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Education services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Integrated primary care services
• Illness management and recovery
• Family psychoeducation
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Case management service
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Suicide prevention services

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

• Private non-profit organization

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted in designated area

Emergency Mental Health Services

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