ABOUT CENTER POINT INC.- SAN RAFAEL, CA
Center Point Inc, located in San Rafael, Calif., offers a full continuum of residential and outpatient treatment to adults, children, and ex-convicts struggling with substance abuse and other social issues. Center Point was founded in 1969 by two individuals who were recovering addicts themselves. The program quickly grew by 1971 to provide services to three different states including California, Oklahoma, and Texas and has continued to expand its services throughout those states to current day.
TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT
The facility’s treatment program follows an evidence-based treatment philosophy with a goal of integrating individuals back into their communities following rehab. In order to be admitted, clients should contact the facility directly to speak to someone about receiving treatment and which services are right for them.
The adult program incorporates counseling, skills training, and supportive services in an attempt to stop the cycle of substance abuse while beginning to train clients on community integration. The residential program takes a psychoeducational approach along with traditional therapy such as cognitive behavioral therapy and psychosocial skills training. Clients are given vocational and career training as well. The residential programs are divided into separate male and female groups. Clients typically remain in treatment from three to six months.
Outpatient services at the facility provide clients with support in reaching education and vocational goals, support in reuniting families, and therapy to achieve and maintain long-term recovery from substance abuse. Clients receive individual and group counseling based on their needs. The facility offers an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) and court-mandated outpatient therapy.
Clients who have completed outpatient treatment may also receive continuing and aftercare services including post-treatment support, recovery maintenance, family support, and case management.
The women and children’s program is a gender-responsive, trauma-informed program offering comprehensive services for pregnant women with children facing homelessness, unemployment, victims of trauma/abuse/domestic violence, criminal behavioral, mental illness, or substance use disorder. Separate residential programs are available for women with children, women who are ex-offenders, and those who are participating in the IOP program.
The facility also offers specialized services for veterans, correctional services, vocational housing and supportive services, a medical clinic, and consultation and training for private and public sector companies/agencies.
STAFF CREDENTIALS
The treatment team includes counselors, substance abuse counselors, mental health therapists, case managers, program facilitators, and other administrative and support staff.
ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES
The facility offers a 40 bed male residential treatment center; the bed capacity of the women’s facility is not listed. There is currently no additional information provided by the facility regarding its living arrangements and related offerings. However, a friend or family member of a client at the facility gave five out of five stars for accommodations & amenities and agreed when asked if the facility was clean and well maintained.
REVIEWS
At the time of this writing, there has been one friend or family member polled by Best-rehabs.com. The anonymous respondent gave a neutral review of the facility including five out of five stars for treatment effectiveness, five stars for accommodations & amenities, and two stars for meals & nutrition.
The loved one was neutral regarding if family and loved ones were able to participate in treatment through facility programming; and if there were many counseling options to choose from depending on the client’s preference. The individual agreed that the facility was adequately equipped and staffed to treat co-occurring mental health problems in addition to substance use disorders and that the facility staff were experienced and well-trained.
He felt that a strength of the facility was the sense of “brotherhood” and felt that the facility could improve upon the staff’s method of treatment as many had “their own ways”, according to the respondent. Overall, the individual was neutral on whether or not he would recommend this facility to another friend or loved one who was considering rehab.
On the facility’s Facebook page, which it can manage, there is an overall rating of 4.7 out of five stars based on 27 total reviews.[1] Many of the reviewers spoke of how the facility changed their lives. One alum, N. F., who gave five stars, wrote, “Life altering. The concepts are the greatest gift I’ve been given. Thank you.” B.M., another client, supported that viewpoint. She also gave five stars and wrote, “Center point changed my life… Keeping families together and displaying tough love to teach us how to love life on life terms.”
On the facility’s Google page, there is an overall rating of five out of five stars based on one total review; the reviewer did not leave any comments.[2] On the facility’s Yelp page, there is an overall rating of one out of five stars based on two total reviews.[3] One reviewer, S.F., gave the facility one star and wrote, “This place is awful! No experience in rehabilitation, counsellors have zero experience in counseling… Just in it for the money. STAY AWAY.”
FINANCING
The cost of treatment at the facility is not published. The facility accepts federal and state benefits including TRICARE, Medi-Cal (MH or DMC), County Medical Service Program (CMSP), and Anthem Path2Health/CMSP as well as commercial Insurance provider networks including Kaiser Permanente, Cigna Behavioral Health, Blue Shield of California, Magellan Health Services, Magellan Employee Assistance Program.
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