VA Northern CA HCS Chico OPC

VA Northern CA HCS Chico OPC

Services:
Special Programs/Groups Offered
• Veterans
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Seniors or older adults
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)

Type of Care

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

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support
• Housing services

Treatment Approaches

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

Facility Type

• Veterans Affairs Medical Center or other VA healthcare facility

Ancillary Services

• Family psychoeducation
• Supported employment
• Suicide prevention services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Case management service
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Integrated primary care services
• Intensive case management
• Illness management and recovery
• Education services
• Chronic disease/illness management
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services

Payment Assistance Available

• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Pharmacotherapies

• Nicotine replacement
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation

Age Groups Accepted

• Adults
• Seniors
• Young Adults

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring
• Laboratory testing

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

• Outpatient

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

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

• Federal Government
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• U.S. Department of VA funds

Emergency Mental Health Services

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