Their facility can hold up to 48 males and females at a time. The goal of the program is to help each client become mentally and physically stable so they can return to their home, school and community.
I like that their clinical team takes an evidence based approach to treatment. They use milieu therapy to organically enhance social skills and build confidence through everyday events and activities. As residents participate in daily routines and adhere to the rules, they’re consistently learning and growing.
Some of their services available on site include individual, group and family counseling sessions, physical education, and art lessons. There’s even a school on campus so you don’t have to worry about falling behind on your work while you attend treatment. During your stay here, they’ll expect you to keep your living area clean and neat as you hone your life skills.
One former client says this facility saved her life. She mentions that it felt like home and not like a treatment facility, which made her recovery easier.
Our Methodology
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.
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.
Financial aid can take many forms. Centers may have grants or scholarships available to clients who meet eligibility requirements. Programs that receive SAMHSA grants may have financial aid available for those who need treatment as well. Grants and scholarships can help you pai for treatment without having to repay.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.
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 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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14426 James Bond Road
Gulfport, MS 39503
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Administration, security, and HR will bury anything that may make them liable for a lawsuit, they don't care about staff, resident safety. Violent residents have been reported to Admin and security and employees get punished for reporting safety concerns. Stay far away in my ...
The staff show a lot of favoritism. This is a great place but the staff must improve.
I was sent to stf when I was 14 years old , I was in a severe mental crisis. I was just transferred from a juvenile detention facility which I stayed for 2 months before I was transferred. They immediately gave me a treatment plan and shoved me in the Dayroom with 5 other girls who immediately looked at me like fresh meat and from the jump the other residents were mean, hated each other there was a fight my first day and I almost got jumped for looking at someone the wrong way . I got beat by multiple residents the 8 months I was trapped here . I was also in cps custody and the staff would tease me about it during phone calls because I had no one to call and I got emotional watching everyone else do phone calls . The staff would pick fights between two residents just to watch a fight happen because they were bored . I was 110 pounds when I got there and when I got out, I was 180 they over fed us and put us on medication that made us obese and I’m still stuck with losing the weight Till this day . If you talk in line during transport you’d get in serious trouble if you say a bad word you be locked up in a room with white walls for 30 minutes if you refused your medicine or anything it would be called refusing treatment and they keep you in there longer. It was 8 months of pure hell they made my ptsd worse. They would strap us the beds and give us shots over any minor inconvenience.
This place was genuinely traumatizing. I was here from March 2025 to September 2025. I had my 14th birthday here. It was awful. A lot of the reason I had a bad time was because the staff are SO negative to you. They give you a “treatment plan” that has nothing to do with why you’re admitted into the place. They give you goals that you don’t even get to choose, and then try to make you achieve them. How to they try to make you? They shame you and tell you how you’re ungrateful at home. They tell you that you parents don’t deserve what THEY’RE going through even thought you’re the one being locked away. ESPECIALLY DR. KUTNER, the psychiatrist!!! These people lock your child in a room with at least 10 people for “treatment team” once a month and pretty much shame your child in front of everyone who has ALL of your info, past info, mental diagnoses, etc. (Most of those people don’t even have degrees in mental health!!) There is no reason for EVERYONE to have your child’s business. This place is HUMILIATING. THEY DO NOT CARE!! The therapists don’t care, the nurses don’t care, and the higher-ups DEFINITELY do not care!! The only people who care are the techs. Especially Dr. Irene Amos!! She is the principal at the school there and she is awful. She is a bully!! She is so rude, passive aggressive, sarcastic, and she takes advantage of mentally unstable children. I don’t know if she works there anymore, but she needs to be fired. She made me have suicidal ideations while I was getting treatment for 6 months straight. Her and Dr. Kutner were the WORST!!! Please grant your children grace and DO NOT send them here! It will by far make them so, so, SO much worse than how they were before. There was also a staff on a watch with one of the teenage girls 1-on-1! Turns out the guy was a pedo and groomed her!! This happened a bit after I left. Please protect your children and don’t leave them here. The only good staff were the techs and the resident advocate, Sam.
They will treat your child horribly. They will feed them the bare minimun. They are extremely antagonizing and will use everything against you like the fbi. You either fight or get beat. They don't take their job seriously and blame everything on kids. This place needs to be shut down and destroyed. The only service they provide is extreme stress
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