Aiken/Barnwell Mental Health Center The Polly Best Center

Aiken/Barnwell Mental Health Center The Polly Best Center

Services:
Facility Type
• Community mental health center

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Crisis intervention team

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

• Outpatient

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

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

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

• State government

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State education agency funds
• U.S. Department of VA funds
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• Private health insurance
• Medicaid
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Cash or self-payment
• Other State funds
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Medicare
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds

Special Programs/Groups Offered

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

Testing

• Laboratory testing

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Pharmacotherapies

• Risperidone
• Thioridazine
• Prochlorperazine
• Lurasidone
• Chlorpromazine
• IIoperidone
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Pimozide
• Loxapine
• Thiothixene
• Perphenazine
• Aripiprazole
• Ziprasidone
• Trifluoperazine
• Clozapine
• Paliperidone
• Haloperidol
• Quetiapine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Olanzapine
• Cariprazine
• Brexpiprazole

Ancillary Services

• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Case management service
• Assertive community treatment
• Supported housing
• Family psychoeducation
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Education services
• Suicide prevention services
• Supported employment

Treatment Approaches

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents
• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling