About Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center
Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, formerly known as Eskenazi Health Center Forest Manor, operated as an integrated behavioral health and primary care facility on the northeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana. The center provided outpatient mental health services and substance use treatment to adults and young adults at its location on N. Sherman Drive, serving as a community anchor in a city where more than half of adults with a mental illness go without treatment. For people in Indianapolis looking for mental health or addiction care, the center offered one of the more accessible entry points in the region before its closure.
Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment
Through its connection to Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Care, the center specialized in short-term, solution-focused therapy for individuals ages six and older. Individual therapy, group therapy, and trauma therapy formed the core of the clinical program, with services structured around outpatient treatment that allowed people to continue living at home while receiving structured behavioral health support.
Inpatient services were also listed among the facility’s levels of care, giving clinicians multiple pathways to match each person’s needs. The integrated model placed mental health services within the same building as primary care, reducing the friction that often prevents people from seeking help for co-occurring conditions.
Accessibility and Multilingual Care
Eskenazi Health Center Forest Manor made a point of serving Indianapolis’s diverse communities. Staff provided services in Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish, and English, allowing the facility to build genuine rapport with patients across cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The center accepted Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, and self-pay, and offered a sliding scale fee structure tied to income and family size.
Status and Next Steps
Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center is no longer operating. People seeking mental health and co-occurring disorder treatment in Indianapolis can explore current options through the directory listings linked from this page. Medicaid and sliding scale programs remain available through other community health providers in Marion County.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Sliding scale payments are based on a client's income and family size. The goal is to make treatment affordable to everyone. By taking these factors into account, addiction recovery care providers help ensure that your treatment does not become a financial burden to you or your family, eliminating one barrier to care.
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Levels of Care
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.
Outpatient Programs (OP) are for those seeking mental rehab or drug rehab, but who also stay at home every night. The main difference between outpatient treatment (OP) and intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) lies in the amount of hours the patient spends at the facility. Most of the time an outpatient program is designed for someone who has completed an inpatient stay and is looking to continue their growth in recovery. Outpatient is not meant to be the starting point, it is commonly referred to as aftercare.
Treatments
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.
Substance rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from substance abuse, including alcohol and drug addiction (both illegal and prescription drugs). They often include the opportunity to engage in both individual as well as group therapy.
Programs
Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.
Young adulthood can be an exciting, yet difficult, time of transition. Individuals in their late teens to mid-20s face unique stressors related to school, jobs, families, and social circles, which can lead to a rise in substance use. Rehab centers with dedicated young adult programs will include activities and amenities that cater to this age group, with an emphasis on specialized counseling, peer socialization, and ongoing aftercare.
Clinical Services
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.
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