Halifax Health Behavioral Services

Halifax Health Behavioral Services

Services:
Testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Persons with eating disorders
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

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

• Partial hospitalization/day treatment
• Outpatient
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

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

• Local, county, or community government

Facility Type

• Psychiatric hospital

Treatment Approaches

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

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents

Emergency Mental Health Services

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

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicare
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Cash or self-payment
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicaid
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• County or local government funds
• State corrections or juvenile justice funds
• Private health insurance
• Other State funds

Ancillary Services

• Intensive case management
• Illness management and recovery
• Education services
• Case management service
• Assertive community treatment
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Suicide prevention services
• Family psychoeducation

Pharmacotherapies

• Risperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Aripiprazole
• Olanzapine
• Chlorpromazine
• Clozapine

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

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

Language Services

• Spanish
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing