My favorite thing about this center is its commitment to inclusivity. Given how hostile the current climate is towards trans and non-binary people, I think it’s wonderful that they signal their care is inclusive of people who identify with this. It’s a great sign, and an early indicator to LGBTQI+ folk that this is a safe space.
Residential care at Avanti involves individual and group therapy, specifically dialectical behavior therapy and skills building. Their trauma-informed approach offers peace of mind, while their parenting and caregiver support is great to see given the demographic of their clients. Medication management is also available, as well as psychiatric assessments and dual-diagnosis care. I also love that they provide aftercare services to give individuals the best chance at reintegration into their home and schooling post-treatment.
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Private insurance refers to any kind of healthcare coverage that isn't from the state or federal government. This includes individual and family plans offered by an employer or purchased from the Insurance Marketplace. Every plan will have different requirements and out of pocket costs so be sure to get the full details before you start treatment.
Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.
Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance for those 65 and older. It also serves people under 65 with chronic and disabling health challenges. To use Medicare for addiction treatment you need to find a program that accepts Medicare and is in network with your plan. Out of pocket costs and preauthorization requirements vary, so always check with your provider.
Military members, veterans, and eligible dependents have access to specific insurance programs that help them get the care they need. TRICARE and VA insurance can help you access low cost or no cost addiction and mental health treatment. Programs that accept military insurance often have targeted treatment focused on the unique challenges military members, veterans, and their families face.
Medicaid is a state based program that helps lower-income individuals and families pay for healthcare. Medicaid covers addiction treatment so those enrolled can use their coverage to pay for rehab. When a program accepts Medicaid the client often pays very little or nothing out of their own pocket.
Outpatient rehabs typically provide a full continuum of care both for clients in early recovery and for those who are well advanced in their recovery journey. Their levels of care typically include partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), sober living/halfway housing, and standard outpatient programming. Many outpatient facilities offer evening, night, and weekend services, including addiction counseling and recovery-focused life skills training, to accommodate clients' work and family schedules.
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.
Mental health rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and more. Mental health professionals at these facilities are trained to understand and treat mental health issues, both in individual and group settings.
Recovery is most successful when clients feel accepted and validated by their peers and treatment providers. Facilities that offer LGBTQ-inclusive programming are committed to creating a safe space where everyone can grow and recover without fear of judgment or discrimination. They will have dedicated policies in place to create a safe and supportive environment that fosters free expression.
Serving in the military is both mentally and physically challenging, and can result in trauma that persists even after combat ends. Military programs are tailored to the specific and often complex needs of active duty personnel, veterans, and military families. Clients often access these programs through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Teen programs are designed to address the unique pressures teens face, pressures that can drive them to experiment with dangerous, addictive substances. They need programs that meet them exactly where they are and give them tools for long-term recovery. Therapy can help teenagers understand and work through underlying issues so they can reclaim the life ahead of them.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.
Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.
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.
Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.
Whether a marriage or other committed relationship, an intimate partnership is one of the most important aspects of a person's life. Drug and alcohol addiction affects both members of a couple in deep and meaningful ways, as does rehab and recovery. Couples therapy and other couples-focused treatment programs are significant parts of exploring triggers of addiction, as well as learning how to build healthy patterns to support ongoing sobriety.
Eye Movement Desensitization And ReprocessingResearch 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.
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If you want a real deal, go elsewhere. They say they will take care of you, but they really do not. Sometimes I hear them talking about residents in a non-respectful way. This was nothing of what I expected from them.
Avanti is a wonderful place for you daughter that is having problems with Borderline Personality Disorder and or depressive and self injurious issues. Their herapist are wonderful, staff is top-notch and they connect with the kids! Avanti takes over the tough parenting part ...
Very poor conditions. Mistreatment and neglect of kids. Unsafe environment.
I made it to stage 4, but I was just as miserable and just as abused as everyone else. I believe the only reason I got stage 4 is because I started to isolate myself which meant I stopped advocating for other people and myself. I came into Avanti outspoken and morally strong but I left broken and quiet. They don’t want you to have a voice and make you think you are nothing more than your struggles. They lie on treatment plans so “insurance doesn’t stop paying” but really it’s because they make money off of children’s pain. A few staff quit because of the way we were treated but they didn’t report the abuse to anyone. They failed us just as much as the owner of avanti. I left twice as traumatized then when I went it. I’m still trying to find my voice again 4 years later. I could write a 500 page paper on everything I went through at 6 months in avanti. Please do not send your children here, and I’m so sorry to anyone who is reading this after staying at avanti. I talk to 3 people I met there 4 years ago and we all still regularly recall the things that happened to us at avanti. What avanti does to children will never be legal or morally okay. Every single mental health professional I’ve told this year that I went to Avanti gets a look on their face or says something negative about it. This place is so scary, I don’t understand why no one has done anything.
I’ve been waiting to make this review… THIS PLACE IS HORRIBLE! & that is a understatement.. If you have any love for your child DO NOT send her here. Please. This place is disgusting, traumatizing, and belittling. I was at avanti for a little over 5 months, somewhat close to discharge because the programs stay was an estimated 6-8 months I believe. They kicked me out after residents threw a huge crisis… every crisis was blamed on me. EVERY CRISIS!!!!!! I swear they were racist. They favorited certain residents and didn’t give a single crap about the rest. Therapists were absolutely terrible and so were the staff. All the people you were supposed to confide in with your struggles there were unreliable, rude, and negative. Residents got one 10 minute phone call a day which was never guaranteed because of crisis and staff being lazy. Which made things lot harder for me. It was hard enough being away from home but barely getting the opportunity to speak to my support system made things a lot more difficult. The handbook was NEVER followed ,rights were never respected. I spent most of my stay in a place we call fireside (which was a room we got sent to when there was a crisis for safety) then I did learning skills to get myself better to have the ability to discharge home. I could go on for DAYS about this place and how messed up it was. I came out with more trauma then I went in with. If I could give this place a negative star review I would. x1000. SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN!!!!!! I’m now an adult. & have learned to live with what this place did to me mentally. I graduated high school and plan on going to college to major in criminal justice & minor in political science eventually. I WANT TO ADVOCATE! I am living in my own apartment, working 16 hour shifts, driving, and I’m expecting a baby boy in March. I hope every Avanti staff sees this review .. & remembers the vulnerable 16 year old girl that they traumatized and belittled. I hope the girls who were also sent here have found peace and got the help they were looking for. SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN!!
I do not recommend sending your child here. I attended for six months in 2023 and I am still unpacking the trauma this place left me with. For me the most damaging part of this program was that you only get a 10 minute phone call you get per day, if even. That 10 minute phone call was closely monitored by staff counting down the time or even ending it if you went over time or said something "wrong". Residential is scary already but barely getting to talk to your family and support systems makes it even harder and lonelier. Most of my six months I spent the evenings going back and forth from the main building where we slept and the other building that had a place called fireside. Fireside was where we went if a resident has having a "crisis", however there was many times where we "couldn't" move and we just had to close our bedroom doors and listen to the banning, screaming, and sometimes witness the restraints they put residents in. It would sometimes take hours for staff to get a hold of the situations or for police/EMTs to arrive. We would be out till midnight in the winter going back and forth, it even got so bad we had to spend the night at fireside where all of us had to sleep on the floor. And then the next day we would go to school tired like nothing happened, we weren't allowed to talk about the situations as a group even if they brought up painful and scary feelings or memories. I am currently 18 and doing much better but I still have nights where Im back in that room holding my roommates as we cried during the crisis's. I still to this day believe talking to my parents more would have helped me feel less lonely and afraid.
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