ABOUT CALIFORNIA HISPANIC COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE, INC. – UNIDOS RECOVERY HOME
Founded in 1975, California Hispanic Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CHCADA) provides a full continuum of services designed to reduce the “environmental vulnerability” of underserved populations, including low-income Latino individuals and families. The nonprofit’s services, which are delivered in Los Angeles and surrounding areas, include outpatient treatment, residential treatment, and family services. Unidos Recovery Home, one of the organization’s centers, provides residential treatment for men struggling with substance abuse.
TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT
CHCADA strives to provide culturally competent treatment; all of its programming, including at Unidos Recovery Home, are accessible to both bilingual and monolingual Spanish speakers. Additionally, up to 50 percent of the center’s clients are homeless.
While outpatient treatment is available through other CHCADA facilities, residential treatment is recommended to clients who may benefit from the added structure and support an inpatient treatment environment can provide. For clients who have involvement in the criminal justice system, CHCADA offers access to professionals who can provide legal assistance, including defense attorneys, judges, and probation officers.
STAFF CREDENTIALS
There is currently no information provided by the facility regarding its treatment staff.
ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES
The residential facility is located in a suburban neighborhood and, according to the center’s website, houses up to 45 men at a time.
WHAT ALUMNI SAY
At the time of this writing there have been three alumni polled by Best-rehabs.com. The alumni responses were very mixed regarding various metrics polled on regarding the facility. One alum, T.S., who’s between 40-59 years old, entered rehab by personal choice for treatment of substance abuse. The alum chose this particular facility based on a referral from friends and family, stayed for 61-90 days, and completed treatment successfully. T.S. did relapse after leaving the program and decided reenter the facility a second time for further treatment.
T.S. gave the facility three out of five stars for accommodations & amenities, and four stars for meals & nutrition. He gave high ratings of five stars each for the frequency, consistency, and member empowerment/safety of the group meetings. The alum gave four stars for counselor availability, training/experience, counselor respect for patient’s treatment preferences, and flexibility to switch counselors. However, overall, T.S. gave the facility only three stars for treatment effectiveness.
Alum, W.P., who is between the ages of 26-39, also entered rehab by personal choice for treatment of substance abuse and chose this particular facility based on a referral from friends and family. The alum gave three stars for accommodations & amenities and five stars for meals & nutrition. W.P. also gave very high ratings of five stars for the counselors at the facility as well as the quality of individual and group therapy. T.S. also gave the facility a three-star rating overall for treatment effectiveness.
A third alum, J.F.J., gave the facility two out of five stars for treatment effectiveness, three stars for accommodations & amenities, and three stars for meals & nutrition. This alum indicated that there were not many counseling options to choose from depending on the client’s preference and that the facility was adequately equipped and staffed to treat co-occurring mental health problems in addition to substance use disorders. He did agree that the facility was clean and well maintained and that family and loved ones were able to participate in treatment through facility programming. J.F.J. felt that a strength of the facility were the employees who seemed to genuinely care about the clients and their wellbeing. However, he felt that the facility could improve upon the staff to client ratio; it seemed to him there were not enough employees to care for all of the clients.
FINANCING
There is currently no information provided on the facility’s website regarding its costs. The website does, however, state that over half of its residential clients are homeless, which suggests that free treatment is available.