ABOUT BUTTE COUNTY – PARADISE ADULT SERVICES
Butte County’s Paradise Adult Services, a center located in Paradise, Calif., provides outpatient treatment for adults 18 and older. The facility also provides assessment, diagnosis, and treatment to individuals requiring mental health or dual diagnosis treatment.
TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT
Treatment offerings at Paradise Services includes mental health and substance abuse assessment, psychiatric assessment and evaluation for medication, medication monitoring, limited individual counseling, group counseling, and community services referral. Bilingual counseling services and interpreter are also available.
There is also a Support, Employment, Assistance, Recovery, Consumer Housing program (a.k.a. SEARCH) that provides intensive services to individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness due to a severe and persistent mental illness.
The Wellness and Recovery Centers (WRC), which is located less than two miles from the Paradise’s outpatient center, offers key therapeutic activities including life skill groups, employment services, and medication support. These centers are open to all community members, and there is an on-site clinician to help consumers run their own groups and provide limited mental health support.
STAFF CREDENTIALS
The treatment team at Paradise Services includes psychiatrists, licensed therapists, psychiatric technicians, counselors, and support staff. The two individuals polled by Best-rehabs.com at the time of this writing (loved ones of clients) rated the staff’s level of experience and training two and three out of five stars.
WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY
The two loved ones polled by Best-rehabs.com to date gave the facility mixed ratings. Both rated the facility highest in cleanliness at a perfect five stars, followed by affordability at three and five stars. The facility was rated lowest for its exercise and leisure provisions at two and three out of five stars, and its counseling options at one and four stars.
In comments, both anonymous loved ones commented that though accommodations were neat, their loved ones received unsatisfactory treatment and aftercare. One wrote: “they do not prepare the people for life after discharge. my daughter failed 2 times and had to return..They did not provide/insist on a support structure after discharge.”
FINANCING
According to HeathGrove, Paradise Services accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance.