Lake Whatcom Residential and Treatment Center Outpatient

Lake Whatcom Residential and Treatment Center Outpatient

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

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• TB screening
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

Type of Care

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Federal Grants
• Cash or self-payment
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• County or local government funds
• Medicare
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicaid
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Facility Type

• Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Ancillary Services

• Family psychoeducation
• Case management service
• Supported employment
• Suicide prevention services
• Assertive community treatment
• Education services
• Illness management and recovery
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Intensive case management
• Integrated primary care services
• Legal advocacy
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Diet and exercise counseling

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted in designated area

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Pharmacotherapies

• Lurasidone
• Nicotine replacement
• Clozapine
• Risperidone
• Brexpiprazole
• Loxapine
• Haloperidol
• Cariprazine
• Asenapine
• Aripiprazole
• Chlorpromazine
• Perphenazine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Ziprasidone
• Olanzapine
• Paliperidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Quetiapine
• Fluphenazine

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

• Private non-profit organization

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

• Residential/24-hour residential
• Outpatient