North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center

North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center

Services:
Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)
• Private non-profit organization

Type of Care

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

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

• Outpatient

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Persons with eating disorders
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Members of military families
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Young adults
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Treatment Approaches

• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Group therapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Activity therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment

Facility Type

• Outpatient mental health facility

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Other Languages

• Russian
• Portuguese
• French
• Creole
• Hindi

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Cash or self-payment
• Medicaid
• Community Service Block Grants
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Private health insurance
• County or local government funds

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents
• Young Adults

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Language Services

• Spanish
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Other languages (excluding Spanish)

Payment Assistance Available

• Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Ancillary Services

• Family psychoeducation
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service