Nueces Center for Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

Nueces Center for Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

Services:
Treatment Approaches
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

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

• Private non-profit organization

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Seniors
• Adults

Payment Assistance Available

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

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Young adults
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Seniors or older adults

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

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

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Ancillary Services

• Suicide prevention services
• Illness management and recovery
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Intensive case management
• Case management service
• Supported employment
• Supported housing
• Assertive community treatment

Pharmacotherapies

• Risperidone
• Quetiapine
• Paliperidone
• Clozapine
• Olanzapine
• Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Facility Type

• Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic

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

• Outpatient

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicaid
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicare
• Cash or self-payment

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Emergency Mental Health Services

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