Children’s Bureau – Oakwood Family Center - Los Angeles, CA

About the Facility

Children’s Bureau – Oakwood Family Center, in Los Angeles, California, provides mental and behavioral health care for youth and families, including specialized programs for clients experiencing co-occurring addictions. They offer school, home, and community-based services, outpatient programs, and aftercare planning and support.

Their outpatient programs are designed to foster the long-term recovery and well-being of children, adolescents, and parents in fragile families, with a primary focus on preventing child abuse and neglect. Clients receive medical and mental health assessments and personalized care plans. Those requiring higher-intensity addiction treatment may be referred to an inpatient alcohol or drug rehab. Clients also engage in individual, group, and family counseling that draws on proven modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy and age-specific, recovery-focused life skills training.

Their aftercare services enable a complete continuum of care aligned with the evolving needs of youth and families. These services may include academic and vocational support, housing and childcare assistance, and referrals for additional medical, mental health, and social service programs.

Children’s Bureau – Oakwood Family Center is funded primarily through public and private donations. The costs of some medical, mental health, or addiction recovery services may also be covered in whole or in part by major insurance providers, such as Aetna, BlueCross Blue Shield, and Humana. Contact your provider to verify coverage because out of network benefits can vary.

Treatment

Mental Health

Inpatient treatment for drug and alcohol addiction with a focus on mental health is a good fit for people who need closer monitoring and care. Treatment may occur in a hospital setting, a clinic, or a luxury rehab center. Mental health counselors and staff are available 24/7. Therapies typically include group and individual counseling, relapse prevention education, and emotional coping skills training.

Insurance and Financial

Medicaid
Self-pay options
Financial aid

Programs

Adolescence program
Children program
Program for men
Program for women

Levels of Care

Outpatient

Clients receiving treatment at an outpatient rehab typically do not require hospitalization or intensive supervision and support. Outpatient addiction counseling and recovery education are often offered during the morning, evening, night, and weekend, allowing clients to tailor treatment to their own schedule. Partial hospitalization (PHP) and intensive outpatient (IOP) programs are the most time-intensive and are designed for clients who are at an increased relapse risk and/or who need more robust therapeutic support.

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.

Couples Therapy

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.

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.

Group Therapy

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.

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.

Trauma Therapy

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.