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Northern Wyoming Mental Health
Center is a private, nonprofit, community mental health
center that provides comprehensive mental health and
substance abuse treatment services to the residents of
Crook, Johnson, Sheridan, and
Weston counties in Wyoming. Northern serves
youths and adults suffering from mild to serious mental
illness and substance use disorders. Each person receives
treatment carefully tailored to his or her individual needs.
Services are available to anyone on a sliding fee scale
basis.
Northern Wyoming Mental Health
Center is a community-minded health care provider. The goal
of NWMHC's staff is to offer every client competent,
professional, confidential, and affordable mental health
services. We provide diagnostic treatment and prevention
programs that help people in the comfortable and familiar
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The Northern Wyoming Mental
Health Center's professionals help people with problems that
are disrupting their lives, or the lives of their families,
friends and co-workers.
Typical problems may include:
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A couple in marital crises
struggling to preserve the family unit
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An adolescent or adult whose
use of alcohol or drugs threatens his or her health and
creates problems at home, at school, or on the job
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A young person struggling as
a single parent to raise a family
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An adult suffering from a
serious mental illness
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An elderly person who no
longer finds meaning in life and develops chronic
depression
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A child with a behavior
disorder
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Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center offers the following services:
Outpatient Services:
Outpatient Services are requested by people seeking help to solve
problems that are interfering with their daily lives at home or on
the job.
Emergency
Services:
NWMHC offers emergency care in all four counties. As a result,
anyone who needs assistance can depend on a qualified professional
to be available when an emergency arises.
Rehabilitation Services:
Treatment options for clients who require more intensive care than
outpatient service, but not full hospitalization. The client retains
daily family contact and support while receiving frequent, highly
focused treatment and compassionate support.
Consultation and Education Services:
NWMHC plays an important role in each community it serves through
education and consultation services. These programs are designed to
increase public awareness of the value of good mental health. They
also make the public aware that - with mental health care, as with
physical health care - prevention of serious problems is as
important as treatment.
Specialized Services
NWMHC offers an array of special programs tailored to the unique
mental health and substance abuse demands of each county.
Marriage
Counseling and Family Therapy:
These programs are designed to help families that are fragmented or
in crisis, where the integrity of the family unit is threatened.
Children's Day Treatment Programs:
Each clinic has created programs to help youngsters between the ages
of five and thirteen build self-esteem, social skills, and emotional
well-being.
Services
for the Elderly:
Services are designed to assist senior citizens facing the
challenges of aging. Our professionals work with caregivers to help
seniors cope with physical problems, isolation, loneliness and
depression.
Geriatric
Consultation:
Northern offers training and support to nursing homes and other
agencies serving the elderly. Individual mental health assessment
and therapy is also available to clients when needed.
Substance
Abuse Prevention:
This prevention program identifies the consequences and costs of
alcohol, tobacco, and drug use to people throughout the community.
The program educates young people and their parents about the
dangers of substance abuse.
Substance
Abuse Intensive Outpatient Programs:
An adult Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program serving both
men and women is offered by the Center in Sheridan County. An
adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program is also offered in Sheridan
County, with a similar program being developed in Johnson County.
Minors in
Possession (MIP):
This program supplies assessment, consultation and referral services
for minors who have been found in possession of alcoholic beverages.
Driving
While Under the Influence (DWUI):
NWMHC conducts classes providing both treatment and education for
those convicted of DWUI offenses.
Family
Preservation:
This program provides intensive treatment of a serious mental or
emotional disorder of a child or adolescent. The services of a
mental health professional, a case manager, and an individual
rehabilitative therapist are employed to prevent placement in a
residential treatment center or psychiatric hospital.
Therapeutic Foster Care:
This service combines the family and community-based aspects of the
Foster Home with the structure and treatment functions of an
inpatient or residential program. Children placed in TFCs are
seriously emotionally disturbed and at high risk of placement in
residential treatment centers or psychiatric hospitals.
Supported
Independence Project:
The Supported Independence Project is a dynamic treatment team that
provides individualized support and treatment services to seriously
mentally ill clients. Clients are at risk of hospitalization or are
discharged from in-patient care.
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How Much Will it Cost?
The
fee will be set during your first contact with the Center. A
sliding fee schedule, based on gross income, may be
established to assist in making mental health and substance
abuse treatment services affordable and available. Of
course, health insurance assignment is accepted for mental
health and substance abuse care. The Center programs
sponsored by Medicaid, Medicare, and situations where State
contracted mental health and substance abuse care is
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Professionals Who Know
Their Business
Our
full-time professionals have doctors or masters degrees in
one of several specialties: psychology; clinical social
work; substance abuse treatment; child, adolescent, and
family development; or counseling.
How Do You Make an
Appointment?
Call Northern Wyoming Mental Health Center's clinic office
in your community. If you do not live in the community where
one of our main offices is located, ask about services
nearest you.
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