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Peterkin and Associates, Inc. is a corporation that has been providing therapeutic and habilitative services such as: nursing care, psychiatric and psychological services, supported employment and day treatment vocational services, physical and occupational therapy services, dietary and pharmacy services, therapeutic recreation, community-based supports and Community Alternative Program (CAP) services for individuals with severe mental retardation and mental illness since 1986. The agency has served Cumberland County residents with the Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program (SAIOP) since March 2007.
What is SAIOP?
Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program (SAIOP) is geared toward structured individual and group addiction activities and services that are provided at an outpatient program designed to assist adults to begin recovery and learn skills for recovery maintenance. The program meets from three to five times per week for three to five hours per day.
SAIOP services shall include a structured program consisting of, but not limited to, the following services:
1. Individual counseling and support;
2. Group counseling and support;
3. Family counseling, training or support;
4. Biochemical assays to identify recent drug use (e.g. urine drug screens);
5. Strategies for relapse prevention to include community and social support systems in treatment;
6. Life skills;
7. Crisis contingency planning;
8. Disease Management; and
9. Treatment support activities that have been adapted or specifically designed for persons with physical disabilities, or persons with co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse/dependence or mental retardation/developmental disability and substance abuse/dependence.
The staff is registered and licensed with the North Carolina Substance Abuse Professional Practice Board and the services are endorsed by the Cumberland County Mental Health Local Management Entity. Because the need for substance abuse services is on the rise and the funds are limited, Peterkin and Associates has adopted higher quality standards than in the past. The agency has recruited some of the best clinicians in North Carolina in the substance abuse field and is currently seeking national accreditation.
Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program can be designed for homogenous groups of persons e.g., pregnant women, and women and their children; individuals with co-occurring Mental Health/Substance Abuse disorders; individuals with HIV; or individuals with similar cognitive levels of functioning. Group counseling shall be provided each day SAIOP services are offered.
SAIOP includes case management to arrange, link or integrate multiple services as well as assessment and reassessment of the individual’s need for services. SAIOP services also inform individuals about benefits, community resources, and services; assists the individual in accessing benefits and services; arranges for the individuals to receive benefits and services; and monitors the provision of services. Individuals may be residents of their own home, a substitute home, or a group care setting; however, the SAIOP will be provided in a setting separate from the individual’s residence.
Peterkin and Associates is driven to fill the gaps left by the Mental Health Reform and serve those in need of Substance Abuse Services in Cumberland County.
For additional information contact Gaynelle Brown or Phil Melvin at: 910-486-0335.
Peterkin and Associates, Inc.
131 Hay Street
Fayetteville, NC
910-486-0335 (Office)
910-483-8515 (Fax)
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