Virginia Beach Department of Human Services – Independence Boulevard

Adults with substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders can receive comprehensive outpatient services from the Virginia Beach Department of Human Services. You can get individualized same day behavioral health assessments if you’re at least 18 years old and live in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Psychiatric assessments, medication management and trauma informed individual, family and group therapy are all part of their adult outpatient services. Peer support and psychosocial education are also offered by them.
For people with the most severe and chronic mental illnesses they use the evidence based and recovery focused Assertive Community Treatment model which offers intensive locally based treatment. This program is crucial for improving your quality of life because it focuses on providing wrap-around services to people who experience acute psychiatric symptoms, recurrent hospitalizations, homelessness and incarceration.
Their case managers are essential to your healing process because they assist you in creating individualized treatment plans and organizing the care required to meet your objectives and promote community integration. To meet your basic needs, they help you connect with medical, psychiatric, social and educational as well as vocational and financial resources.
They offer Project Link to provide intensive gender specific case management to help lower treatment barriers for pregnant and parenting women who use drugs. In addition to parenting education and support groups, their services include the facilitation of childcare and transportation options.
Additionally, they offer case management to children from birth to age seven who are at risk of experiencing severe emotional disturbances as a result of substance abuse or mental illness in their parents.
Their Restore program offers outpatient addiction treatment using an office based opioid treatment framework to individuals who are struggling with opioid use disorder. Restore is part of their larger medication assisted treatment (MAT) approach to relieve withdrawal pains and cravings.