Abraxas Lehigh Valley Community-Based Programs

About the Facility

Located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Abraxas Lehigh Valley Community-Based Programs serve Northampton County Children and Youth, Lehigh County Juvenile Probation and Lehigh County Children and Youth.

The goal of the program is to provide treatment, education, and support to meet each youth’s individualized needs.

Abraxas Lehigh Valley specializes in 7 Key Principles of Balanced Parenting, Individual Adolescent Case Management, Family Brokering of Community Resources and Developing Self Sufficiency, Visiting Coaching, and Community-Based Aggression Replacement Training (ART). They also offer additional services such as Crisis Intervention with 24/7 availability, Curfew Monitoring, and Drug Screening.

The average length of care ranges from 3 to 6 months with frequency of contact in the home ranging from 1 day a week to 6 days a week. Lehigh Valley Community-Based program believes strongly that family involvement in the treatment process correlates with an increase in positive outcomes. Parents/legal guardians help to develop a treatment plan and goals for their child’s success.

Family Structure Restoration is a multi-dimensional approach that assists families in creating a solid foundation from which to build positive, sustainable change for the future. It is based on three main components Brokering Community Resources, 1 on 1 Decision Making Skills, and Balanced Parenting.
Also, Visit Coaching aims to help parents understand the effects the parent/child separation process can have on their child, to identify the child’s needs and determine how to meet those needs, and supports the parents by helping them demonstrate their best parenting skills to improve visits for their child.

Treatment

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a syndrome of dependent alcohol use. Also called alcohol use disorder (AUD), the symptoms include craving alcohol, not being able to stop drinking, and feeling anxious or irritable when not drinking. For many people, alcohol rehab in Pennsylvania is a beneficial treatment. Programs offer many levels of care, including medical and behavioral therapies.

Drug Addiction

Drug rehab in Pennsylvania is devoted to the treatment of addiction. Levels of care, treatment methods, and settings differ, but the aim of each program is to end drug dependency and empower participants to achieve long-term recovery.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse

In Pennsylvania, dual-diagnosis rehabs specialize in providing comprehensive care for individuals facing both mental health and substance abuse challenges. These facilities offer personalized treatment plans, integrating evidence-based therapies such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and experiential therapy. Other recovery services, like 12-Step meetings, skills training, educational groups, and an aftercare plan will enhance your odds of long-term recovery.

Insurance and Financial

Medicaid

Programs

Adolescence program
Children program
Program for men
Program for women

Levels of Care

Intervention Services

Intervention services helps family or friends of addicts stage an intervention, which is a meeting in which loved ones share their concerns and attempt to get an addict into treatment. Professional intervention specialists can help loved ones organize, gather, and communicate with an addict. They can guide intervention participants in describing the damage the addict's behavior is causing and that outside help is necessary to address the addiction. The ideal outcome of an intervention is for the addict to go to rehab and get the help they need.

Inpatient

Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Family Therapy

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Individual Therapy

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Life Skills

Life skills trainings involve all the skills a person must have in order to function successfully in the world. These include time management, career guidance, money management, and effective communication. Truly successful addiction recovery is based on the ability to not only live substance-free, but to thrive. Life skills teaches the practical necessities of functioning in society, which sets clients up for success in life, and therefore sobriety.

Recreational Therapy

Recreational therapy (aka therapeutic recreation) uses creative and fun activities to help with addiction recovery. Recreational therapists lead patients in entertaining and engaging activities like sports or games; art (drawing, painting, sculpture); drama, music, and dance; and/or community outings (field trips) to improve patients' physical, social, and emotional well-being.