Northshire UCSResidential Treatment in Manchester Center, VT
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United Counseling Service of Bennington County, Inc. (UCS) is a community mental health organization established in 1958 through the merger of Bennington Family Service Center and the state-operated Bennington Child Guidance Clinic. The organization is committed to building a stronger community by empowering individuals and families to live healthy and meaningful lives. UCS offers services in Bennington County, Vermont, and operates an Equine Assisted Therapy Program that helps individuals and groups experience healing through horses. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors and provides comprehensive services to all residents in its service area regardless of ability to pay.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Evidence-based approaches
Equine-assisted therapy
Equine-Assisted Therapy. Structured work with horses, often alongside a clinician. Useful for trauma + emotional regulation when interaction with another live being lowers defenses that talk-therapy alone cannot.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Setting
- Outpatient
- Residential/24-hour residential
- Outpatient day treatment or partial hospitalization
- Intensive outpatient treatment
- Outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or naltrexone treatment
- Regular outpatient treatment
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Case management service
- Child care for clients' children
- Domestic violence services, including family or partner
- Mental health services
- Social skills development
- Transportation assistance
- Integrated primary care services
- Suicide prevention services
Education & counseling
- HIV or AIDS education, counseling, or support
- Hepatitis education, counseling, or support
- Health education services other than HIV/AIDS or hepatitis
- Substance use disorder education
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
- Individual counseling
- Group counseling
- Family counseling
- Marital/couples counseling
- Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)
Who this is for
Special programs
- Adolescents
- Young adults
- Adult women
- Pregnant/postpartum women
- Adult men
- Seniors or older adults
- Veterans
- Active duty military
- Members of military families
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders
- Clients with HIV or AIDS
- Clients who have experienced sexual abuse
- Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
- Clients who have experienced trauma
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